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Question
Answer the following question.
Mention four significant services that a healthy forest ecosystem provides.
Solution
Ecosystem services provided by healthy forest ecosystems are
- Purification of air.
- Maintenance of biodiversity.
- Provide wildlife habitat.
- A storage site for carbon. (v) Cycling of nutrients.
- Mitigate droughts and floods.
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