What is the importance of ecosystem?

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What is the importance of ecosystem?

Answer 1

im not a scientist to bear with me...

If you didnt know our life is a domino effect.  All of earths beings affect one another.  Well, we all balance each other i should say.  Without it we wouldnt be living.  An ecosystem is what this is, without it we wouldnt have anything!!

Answer 2

Ecosystems are very important because all living things are engrained into them. Let's take a food chain for an example:

Plankton --> Salmon --> Humans

If plankton were not to exist, then the salmon would not have food to eat. If salmon have no food to eat, its population will decrease and that means less food for humans. This is why any extinction or decrease/increase in population from normal levels is devastating in the ecosystem.

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An ecosystem is a natural unit consisting of all plants, animals and micro-organisms (biotic factors) in an area functioning together with all of the non-living physical (abiotic) factors of the environment.

From an anthropological point of view, many people see ecosystems as production units that of goods and services. Among some of the most common goods produced by ecosystems, is wood by forest ecosystems and grass for cattle by natural grasslands. Meat from wild animals, often referred to as bush meat in Africa, has proven to be extremely successful under well-controlled management schemes in South Africa and Kenya. Much less successful has been the discovery and commercialization of substances of wild organism for pharmaceutical purposes. Services derived from ecosystems are referred to as ecosystem services. They may include (1) facilitating the enjoyment of nature, which may generate many forms of income and employment in the tourism sector, often referred to as eco-tourisms, (2) water retention, thus facilitating a more evenly distributed release of water, (3) soil protection, open-air laboratory for scientific research, etc.

A greater degree of species diversity or biological diversity - popularly referred to as Biodiversity - of an ecosystem may contribute to greater resilience of an ecosystem, because there are more species present at a location to respond to a factor of change and thus "absorb" or reduce its effects, thus reducing the effect before its structure is fundamentally changed to a different state. This is not universally the case and there is no proven relationship between the species diversity of an ecosystem and its ability to provide goods and services on a sustainable level: Humid tropical forest produce very little goods and direct services and are extremely vulnerable to change, while many temperate forests readily grow back to their previous state of development within a lifetime after felling or a forest fire. Some grasslands have been exploited sustainably for thousands of years (Mongolia, Africa, European peat and mooreland communities).

Answer 3

it  balance the environment..

Answer 4

It is the basis of our whole world without which, we can no longer think of living.