What is an ecosystem?

ecosystem is Portmanteau's word - that is, the word created by jamming two more words together. He built it as a shortcut to refer to the ecological system, and is now a preferred term. In the perfect world, the ecosystem is in balance. This means that the species of predators keeps the species of prey under control without completely destroying them, and Plantlife remains different without one type and pushed the rest.

Ecosystems are rarely in balance, and this often causes alarm. For example, the outflow of contamination from the factory can affect marine life in the lake, causing the fish population to fall. This destabilizes the entire surrounding ecosystem and birds and animals that prey to fish either die or migrate into areas with more foods.

trials to face damage to the ecosystem, requires a complete understanding of all the relationships between plants, animals and atmosphere in the system. Since such perfect understanding is rarely possible, they are not exposed toEdk often unintended consequences.

For example, the US government at the age of 30 recommended that farmers on the southern plant Kudza to help prevent erosion. Now the Kudzu is a annoying race, and many thousand hours per year are recorded in an effort to prevent the Kudzu from taking over, damaging roads and buildings, and suffocating other species of plants. A similar takeover of the non -native species is seen in the problem of rabbit in Australia. Rabbits have no natural predator from Australia, so when they were introduced in the nineteenth century, they prolonged as, well, rabbits, to the extent that their effects on the ecosystem, especially agricultural land, were devastating.

In nature, no ecosystem can be said to be independent of neighboring ecosystems or on a global ecosystem, because ecosystems are open and between them can move plants and animals. All ecosystems are performed TRENDs on the whole planet that affect the atmosphere such as pollution and global warming.

One attempt to study the ecosystem in the isolation was the biosphere 2, an airtight cover that tried to duplicate the ecosystem in balance. Although the experiment was not successful - they were not able to maintain oxygen levels sufficiently high for human health without its import - the experiment explained how fragile the balance of the ecosystem is and how dangerous it can be seriously damaged by the ecosystem of the whole country.