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What is an Ecosystem?
An ecosystem consists of the organisms that live in a certain environment. Known example of these are the forest and the coral reef where organisms thrive and depend on other living creatures to survive. The study of ecosystems and the organisms that dwell in them is known as ecology. The British ecologist Sir Arthur George Tansley was the first to coin this term. He described it as the interactio... [Read More]
The Importance of Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the composition of various organisms found in a particular ecosystem or biome or even for the whole Earth. This can be used as a way to measure how biological systems fare in terms of health. Its existence is very important because of the benefits that it has in terms of the resources it provides to man. It is essential in the maintenance of the agricultural, scientific and economi... [Read More]
The Root of our Ecological Crisis
A general ecological crisis happens when an environment is unable to evolve in such a way that it either fails to adapt or if there is a certain unfavorable aspect that interferes with that particular ecosystem's survival. Other factors that may be affected could be the landscape in the ecosystem or the even the species which live in the environment. It could be that the environment has started to... [Read More]
Introduction to Ecology
Ecology is largely the scientific study of the division and abundance of the different living beings as well as the interactions among organisms and the interrelationship between these organisms and their environment. The habitat of organisms essentially include both the physical properties which can be expressed as the sum of local abiotic factors which include the geology, climate as well as abu... [Read More]
How to Help Endangered Species
You do not have to find yourself living in Africa or in Asia, where some of the most endangered species today can be found, in order to help preserve them. You might not know it but you might need also to preserve certain species right in your own neighborhood. Whatever you can do in order to help preserve animals and plants, even in the local level may help a lot in trying to preserve the biodive... [Read More]
What is the Ecological Niche
To simply define an ecological niche, we need to borrow the words of Howard T. Odum, an American ecologist who pioneered major research and studies on ecosystem ecology. Odum in 1959 defined ecological niche using an analogy: if the habitat refers to the "address", the ecological niche refers to the "profession" of organisms. A habitat is totally different. This is just a place... [Read More]