• Regulating Services are the benefits that ecosystemsprovide by acting as regulators eg. regulating the quality of air, water and soil or by providing flood and disease control, pollinationการผสมเกสร.
• Local climate and air quality: Trees provide shade whilstในขณธที่forests influence rainfall and water availability.
• Carbon storage: Ecosystems regulate the global climate by storing and sequesteringเอาออก greenhouse gases. As trees and plants grow, they remove carbon dioxide from theatmosphere and effectively lock it away in their tissues.
2. Regulating Services
• Moderation of extreme events: Extreme weather events or natural hazardsอันตราย include floods, storms, tsunamis, avalanchesหิมะถล่ม and landslides. Ecosystems and living organisms create buffers against natural disastersภัยพิยัติ, thereby preventing possible damage. For example, wetlands can soak up flood water. Coral reefsแนวป. and mangroves help protect coastlines from storm damage.
• Erosionก.กัดเซาะ prevention and maintenance of soil fertility: Soil erosion is a key factor in the process of land degradationก.ย่อยสลาย and desertificationทะเลทราย. Vegetation cover providesa vitalจำเป็น regulating service by preventing soil erosion.