The modern notion of ecosystem services can be traced back to at least the early 1970s. Since the late 1990s, however, several well-known studies have codified ecosystem services into generally accepted lists or typologies (Daily 1997; DeGroot, Wilson et al. 2002) The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2002; Mooney, Cropper et al. 2004; Pereira, Queiroz et al. 2005) classified ecosystem services into “supporting services,” the ecological processes and functions that generate other ecosystem services, “regulating services” that maintain global and local conditions at levels appropriate for human survival, “provisioning services” that offer physical resources directly contributing to human well-being,.
