Inventario de bienes y servicios ecosistémicos del archipiélago Jambelí y su estado de conservación

Abstract

Estuaries are considered mixed ecosystems in which there are a large number of their own characteristic environments, this in turn generates environmental goods and services that positively contribute to the communities and the environment, such as the decontamination of waters, in addition to the recharge of the aquifers and the production of organic matter that supports coastal marine life. Ecosystem goods and services are fundamental in a biome, however in the last 30 years they have been significantly lost in most of the world's ecosystems, especially coastal marine ones. The Jambelí archipelago has provisioning services such as goods and products, regulation that are the natural processes that take place in the ecosystem, support considered beneficial for other ecosystems and cultural with non-material benefits.