Generic models are required to share models for the same category of ecosystems in order to facilitate comparative scenario analyses and forecasting, and classify ecosystem health.
Recommendations are made to analyze and classify ecosystems according to their dominating processes, specific structures, or functions.
We investigate ways of using fishing grounds, bioregion and depth information as a means of classifying ecosystems, and then show how fishery data could be used in the process of selecting between candidate areas.
Hence, ecologists classify ecosystems hierarchically by analyzing data collected from finer scale units, such as vegetation associations, climate, and soil types, and integrate this information to identify emergent patterns of uniform organization and processes that operate on local to regional, landscape, and chronological scales.
For practical purposes, it may be sufficient to adopt an appropriate classification of forest types serving as a rough proxy for classifying ecosystems.
First, the areas of improvement of ecosystems in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River will be classified as ecosystem conservation regions consisting of logging ban areas, and any logging activity will be firmly banned.
Organisms that cause such changes are classified as ecosystem engineers.
For the non-material damages, which we classified as cultural ecosystem services, we noted that the loss was high as the victims lost something invaluable and critical for their identity and their well-being.
The ecosystem services approach was used as valuation criteria of the 14 principal ecosystems classified in the studied area, where agricultural is the predominant economic activity.
Understanding ecosystems as functional units that contain organisms interacting with each other and the abiotic environment, agricultural systems have to be regarded and classified as specific ecosystems.
