9. Ecosystems are of any size, but
usually they are in particular places
SIZE
10. exchange of energy and nutrients in the
food chain.
These exchanges sustain plant and animal
life on the planet
the decomposition of organic matter and
the production of biomass……
BIODIVERSITY
FUNCTIONS/IMPORTANCE
11.
12. AQUATIC
Marine
Fresh water
TERRESTRIAL
All ecosystems on land
TYPES OF ECOSYSTEMS
13. temperate forest,
tropical rain forests,
deserts,
grasslands,
the taiga (boreal),
the tundra,
the chaparral
ENVIRONMENTAL ECOSYSTEMS
14.
15. The enormous Amazon river, contains
20 percent of the world's flowing fresh
water.
Though the Amazon covers only four
percent of the earth's surface, it
contains a third of all known terrestrial
plant, animal, and insect species
WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT
ECOSYSTEM
16. The World Ocean is
the largest existing ecosystem o
n our planet.
Covering over 71% of the Earth's
surface, it's a source of livelihood
for over 3 billion people.
LARGEST ECOSYSTEM
17.
18. Microbiomes are
communities of bacteria, fungi, protozoa,
algae, other one-celled microbes, and
viruses
these interact with one another in complex
ways.
These ecosystems are enormously
complex.
SMALLEST ECOSYSTEM
19.
20.
21. Ecosystems are dynamic entities.
subject to periodic disturbances
in the process of recovering from some past
disturbance.
The tendency of an ecosystem to remain
close to its equilibrium state, despite that
disturbance, is termed its resistance.
Dynamics
22. Chapin, F. Stuart; Pamela A. Matson; Peter
M. Vitousek (2011). Principles of Terrestrial
Ecosystem Ecology (Second ed.). New
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Gurevitch, Jessica; Samuel M. Scheiner;
Gordon A. Fox (2006). The Ecology of
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