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Biological control of populations, pests, diseases (15)
Control erosion and sediment (13)
Cycle nutrients (23)
Detoxification/purification of air/water/waste (5)
Disperse seeds (27)
Generate soil/renew fertility (11)
Maintain biodiversity (38)
Pollinate (8)
Regulate atmospheric composition (1)
Regulate climate (4)
Regulate habitat response to disturbance (29)
Regulate hydrological flows (5)
Regulate water storage (6)
- Multiple organisms strip nutrients: forests
- Bacteria help volatilize and mineralize ammonia: termites
- Mats uniformly distribute resources: black grama grass
- Multiple organisms interact: soil ecosystem
- Feeding behavior increases nitrogen availability: nematodes
- Ecosystem demonstrates sustainability: prairie
- Nurse logs provide new habitat: western hemlock
- Insects digest fecal waste: dung beetles
- Insects cycle nutrients: periodic cicadas
- Exoskeletons excrete nitrogen waste: woodlice
- Stream community depends on ecosystem engineers: sediment-processing fish
- Collaboration benefits multiple participants: mangrove forests
- Relationship provides nutrients, stability: bracket fungi and trees
- Relationship provides nutrients, protection: ant-plants and ants
- Mounds increase diversity: mound-building termites
- Epiphytes capture nutrients: bromeliads
- Ecosystem manages poor soils: tropical rain forest
- Minerals conserved during moult: crustaceans
- Microbial biodiversity maintained: heather moorland
- Foraging aids revegetation: greater bilby
- Networks share water: fungi
- Limited nutrients recycled: benthic communities
- Biopolymer secretions serve numerous life-supporting functions: Everglades periphyton communities
