The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment describes the following major categories of ecosystem services-provisioning, supporting, regulating, preserving and cultural. Which one of the following is supporting service?
- Production of food and water
- Control of climate and disease
- Nutrient cycling and crop pollination
- Maintenance of diversity
Explanation
Option (c) is correct
- The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) was called for by the former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2000. Initiated in 2001, the objective of the MA was to assess the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and the scientific basis for action needed to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of those systems and their contribution to human well-being.
- Supporting services are the fundamental ecological processes that sustain other ecosystem services.
