Anthropogenic Impact On Ecosystems

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Natural Ecosystems are very beneficial. Discuss the anthropogenic impact on ecosystems and biodiversity and the need to maintain its integrity. A natural ecosystem is complex set of relationships among the living resources, habitats, and residents of an area. It includes plants, trees, animals, soil, and people. Ecosystems vary in size and the elements that make them up, but each is a functioning unit of nature. Everything that lives in an ecosystem is dependent on the other species and elements that are also part that ecological community. If one part of an ecosystem is damaged or disappears, it has an impact on everything else. When an ecosystem is healthy, scientists say it is sustainable. This means that all the elements live in balance and are capable of reproducing themselves. There is usually biodiversity, meaning that there are a variety of living organisms and species in that environment. There are a variety of ecosystems on earth. They include different terrestrial and aquatic systems. Tropical rainforests are one of the most productive ecosystems as they posses a high biodiversity and there is a large number of organisms present in rainforests as they tend to expand over a vast amount of land. An example is the Amazon Rainforest. Another productive and diverse ecosystem is the coral reef. A coral reef is A mound or ridge of living coral, coral skeletons, and calcium carbonate deposits from other organisms such as calcareous algae, mollusks, and protozoans. Within the reef, there are a variety of flora and fauna attributing to the great diversity of the ecosystem. An example is the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Other ecosystems include temperate forests, swamps, savannas, deserts, taiga, tundra and steppes. Natural ecosystems have a large amount of benefits. These benefits are also known as ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services are the
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