Biodiversity in forests is important for healthy ecosystems and food chains, but human activities like pollution are reducing biodiversity and harming forests. Biodiversity allows all groups of plants and animals to interact as producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers and decomposers. When humans living near forests pollute the air with car fumes and factory waste, it kills many plants and disrupts the food chain, eventually destroying the whole forest. The loss of deciduous forests affects humans by eliminating sources of wood and food.

1. Biodiversity in the Deciduous Forest By Benjamin W

2. Why is it Important Biodiversity is what keeps an ecosystem running. It allows for the food chain to work. We need all five groups of animals and plants to complete a food chain. Producers Primary Consumers Secondary Consumers Quaternary Consumers Decomposers/Scavengers

3. What Causes Biodiversity Loss Humans are the main cause of biodiversity loss. A lot of humans live in cities by forests. This pollutes the air with car fumes and factory waste, killing a LOT of plants which, in turn kills the primary consumers. Then it goes down the chain and ends up killing the whole forest.

4. How that Affects Us When the deciduous forest dies out, we lose our source of wood and food.