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What is an ecosystem and what are its parts and functions?

What can challenge an ecosystem?
What are the roles of the water and food cycles in an ecosystem?

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An ecosystem consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact. These biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Energy enters the system through photosynthesis and is incorporated into plant tissue.

Parts & Functions Of an Ecosystem

The functions of the ecosystem are as follows: It regulates the essential ecological processes, supports life systems and renders stability. It is also responsible for the cycling of nutrients between biotic and abiotic components. It maintains a balance among the various trophic levels in the ecosystem.

What are the major parts of an ecosystem? An ecosystem includes soil, atmosphere, heat and light from the sun, water and living organisms.

Challenges For An Ecosystem

Some of the primary challenges include, but are not limited to, habitat loss, climate change including sea level rise, and levee stability.

The Role and Function of Water

Water cycle have several impacts on the nature - it takes part in weather, erosion and watering plants.

In short term it is positive, to see green grass and trees, not just bonedry dead nature.

In longer term we can see weather changing, clouds made of tiny drops of water coming and leaving - changing humidity (important for fungi and liches), local temperature changes etc.

Longest takes erosion and it is mostly about changing soils structure and nutritients for plants. Erosion can be also seen on riverbeds - in soft rocks/soils being wider, in harder rocks narrow. Also sedimentation in delta is important for development of border ecosystems.

Water makes organisms live and rocks move, that is the importance of water cycle.

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An ecosystem is a structural and functional unit of ecology where the living organisms interact with each other and the surrounding environment. In other words, an ecosystem is a chain of interactions between organisms and their environment.

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