| Ecosystem Services |
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| Group |
Specific |
Who benefits |
Critical or not |
Note |
| 1. Gas regulation |
Oxigen production and consumption |
global |
Essential |
Considered as a group to be essential and quantifiable |
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Absobtion of CO2 holding carbon in biomass |
global |
Essential |
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Water transportation |
global |
Essential |
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| 2. Climate Regulation |
Water recycling in Amazon, mantains forets water production |
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Considered as a group to be essential and quantifiable |
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Contribution to the global climate regulation |
global |
Essential |
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Pleistocene refuge can be indicator of climate change and allow for adaptability |
Local/national/regional |
Essential |
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Carbon resevoire |
Local/Global |
Essential |
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Source of rain water |
Local/Global |
Essential |
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| 3. Disturbance prevention |
Erosion prevension |
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Considered as a group to be essential only on local level, considered quantifiable but hasnt been done |
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Provides storm protection |
Local/regional |
Essential |
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Mantains forest cover |
Local/regional |
Essential |
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Flood protection |
Local/regional |
Essential |
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Protection against forest fines |
Local/regional |
Essential |
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| 4. Water Regulation |
Maintains humidity, and rain fall |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
Considered as group to be essential and quantifiable |
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repeated comments on water cicle, evapotranpiration and river water |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
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| 5. Water Supply |
Stability in river water |
local/regional |
Essential |
Consedered as a group to be essentail and quatifiable |
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Water quality |
local/regional |
Essential |
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Accesability |
local/regional |
Essential |
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Water shead, floodable forest |
local/regional |
Essential |
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Vital part of water cycle, evaporation, evaprtranspiration |
global |
Essential |
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Source of water from paramo, critical part of water cycle |
global |
Essential |
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| 6. Soil Retension |
Erosion Control |
Local/Regional |
Essential |
related to soil conservation, we believe its quantifiable |
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Maintains Biodiversity to towas |
Local/regional |
Essential |
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Avoids landslides |
Local/regional |
Essential |
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| 7. Soil Conservation |
Acumulation of nutrients on surface of earth thanks to descomposition of organic mater |
Regional/Global |
Essential |
As group considered to be essential only on local level and is quantifiable |
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Benefits local population because it preserves forest |
Local |
Essential |
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Different types of agroculture possible |
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| 8. Nutrient Regulation |
Parrot lick (Saladero), feeding grounds, essential for food chain |
Local |
Essential |
Considered as a group to be essential only on local level, considered quantifiable but only from the perspective of what would happen if lost? |
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Animal waste on rivers and lakes |
Local |
Essential |
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Source of organic mater (nitrogen) |
Local |
Essential |
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| 9. Waste treatment |
Procesing of waste from oil production |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
Considered essencial on all levels and quantifiable |
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Processing of waste from human settlements |
Local |
Essential |
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Processing of waste from agro |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
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Recycling |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
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Biogas |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
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| 10. Pollination |
Pollination of species in danger of extinction such as Chanul, Guayacan |
Local/national |
Essential |
Considered as a group essential only on local level and considered to be able to be quantified but not sure how |
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Insects that Pollinate |
Local/national |
Essential |
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Genetic Transfer |
Local/national |
Essential |
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Hybridación, English? |
Local/national |
Essential |
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Mutation, adaptación |
Local/national |
Essential |
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| 11. Biological Control |
Tropical Illnesses |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
Considered essential and quantifiable |
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Plage control |
Local/regional |
Essential |
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Fusarium, Oxisporum |
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| 12. Refugium Function |
Migratory species such as birds |
global |
Essential |
Considered essential on local level and important on global level but not quantifiable |
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Bird refuge for tourism |
local |
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Habitat for young fish |
local/regional |
Essential |
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Potential refuge during climate change as it was during pleistocene |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
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| 13. Nursery function |
Lagoons, and small rivers |
local/regional |
Essential |
Considered to be essential on local level and quantifiable |
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Trees and bushes |
local/regional |
Essential |
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Organic mater (tree truncs) |
local/regional |
Essential |
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Specific Species Organisms |
local/regional |
Essential |
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| 14. Food |
Animal and vegtable protein |
local/regional |
Essential |
Considered essential only on a local level and quantifiable |
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Knowledge related to food sovereignty |
local/regional |
Essential |
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Yuca, cacao, palmito, chonta, fruit, |
local/regional |
Essential |
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| 15. Raw Material |
Raw material essential for local subsistance |
Local |
Essential |
Considered to be essential on local level and quantifiable |
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Trade |
Local |
Essential |
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Wood: firewood, carbon vegetal, seeds, essential oils |
local/regional |
Essential |
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| 16. Genetic Resources |
Germoplasma (DNA) Amphibians, plants and animals |
global |
Essential |
Considered essential and quantifiable although difficult to quantify |
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Seed |
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Genetic diversity: resistance to plages |
local/nacional/global |
Essential |
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| 17. Medicinal Resources |
Medicinal plants |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
Considered essential and quantifiable although difficult to quantify |
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Research |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
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Birm, cruz caspi, ayaguasca |
global |
Essential |
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| 18. Ornamental Resources |
Orchids |
local |
Essential |
Considered to be essential on local level and quantifiable |
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Seeds for jewellery essential for trade |
local |
Essential |
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| 19. Aesthetic Infromation |
Complementary and esential for nature tourism and ecotourism |
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Considered to be important but not essential and quantifiable |
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Benefits turistica operations for local communities and visitors |
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Images published in magazines like Nationa Geographic |
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| 20. Recreation |
Landscape |
Local |
Essential |
Considered to be essential on local level and quantifiable |
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Ecotourism |
Regional |
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Sports (adventure and ancestral) |
global |
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Legends |
local |
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Ethnotourism |
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Community Ecotourism |
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| 21. Cultural and Artistic Infromation |
Maintains unique culture |
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Essential |
Considered essencial but not quantifiable and is related to spiritual and historical information - histórical debt |
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Allows transmition of ancestral values to future generations |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
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Potencia research area for various diciplines |
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Essential |
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Respectful living with nature |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
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Language |
Local/regional |
Essential |
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| 22. Spiritual and historical information |
Knowledge of use of medicinal plantas and tradicional medicine |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
Considered as a group to be essential but not quantifiable, relation to tradicional medicine |
| 23. Science and Education |
potential research in botanic, zoology, linguistics, anthropology, ecology, natural history, environmental studies |
global |
Essential |
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Exchange |
global |
Essential |
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| 24. Other functions |
Biological Corridor |
Local/regional/global |
Essential |
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Allows for political issues of ancestral land territoriality |
Local/regional |
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Ethic value of preservation |
global |
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Example of harmonic living with nature for the world |
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No oil extractioin benefits peace efforts in area as it creates natural barrier for guerrilla and narcotrafic/given quemicals from oil production used for drug processing |
Local/regional:border |
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Allows for options of renuable energy to be explored such as recuperación, geotermica, eólica (wind) |
Local/regional |
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