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October 26, 2024

Biodiversity and Importance of Biodiversity

Biodiversity sources and also other sources supply raw materials to many important industries.

They have aesthetic value and an appeal for ecotourism, which supports the growth of the national economy. They are also potential sources of pharmaceuticals, other chemicals, agricultural materials, etc.

Pharmaceutical products of biodiversity origin offer important medicines to our healthcare systems and prepare a background for many social services. Besides these, biodiversity offers various ecosystem services as each of the numerous species of animals and plants depends on other animals or plants for survival, breeding, and development.

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September 19, 2024

What is an Ecological Niche? How is it related to habitat?

Ecological Niche Dictionary defines the term Niche as a comfortable or suitable position in the life of a living being or a role taken by a type of organism within its community. In other words, an ecological niche is the role and position a species has in its environment, for example, how it meets its food and shelter needs, survives, and reproduces. A species’ niche includes all of its interactions with its environment’s biotic and abiotic factors.

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September 3, 2024

What is Ecosystem? What are its components?

The environment of our earth has a number of life zones that support birth and development of all types of organisms.

All the life zones of the earth are collectively called as Biosphere.

The biosphere vertically extends into the atmosphere up to about 10 km and downwards into the oceans up to a depth of about6.9 km.

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September 12, 2022

Pollution- disruption of nutrient cycles and habitats

Our natural resources are known to have some specific qualities of their own. These qualities are known as natural qualities. It is due to specific natural qualities that different natural resources have been useful to us and to the whole biosphere. But now, the condition has changed considerably. Most of our natural resources like air, water and soil have gone bad due to pollution of different types. What is pollution?

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June 22, 2022

Ecosystem analysis: Understanding Complex Ecosystems

The biosphere has been composed of a number of highly complex ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, oceans, estuaries, deserts etc. These ecosystems have gone under threat over the years due to intensive human pressure of serious pollutions, habitats destructions, land, water bodies, wetlands and coastal zones reclamations and so on.

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May 7, 2022

Biotic Components of Ecosystem

Living beings in environment like animals and plants constitute more than half of the environment in the biosphere. All of these need to be conserved.

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January 16, 2022

Questions and Answers on Environment

Ans. Specific enzymes are needed for degradation of substances. A single enzyme cannot degrade many substances. Different types of microorganisms…

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January 8, 2022

Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem

Sun is the only source of energy in the biosphere. Every living being can get its share of energy through food only and the energy is directly or indirectly obtained from green plants only.

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January 6, 2022

Flow of Nutrients in Ecosystem

The flow of nutrients in ecosystem takes place in cyclic pathways through food chains, food webs and bio-geo-chemical cycles. Food…

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December 23, 2021

Ecosystem and its components

The total area where living beings are found is called as biosphere. It can be divided into many small independent units called as Ecosystem. In fact, the unit of biosphere which incorporates many types of microorganisms, plants and animals, physical factors like soil, water, air etc. interacting among themselves is called as ecosystem

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October 16, 2024 Recommended

Biodiversity and its Importance

Biodiversity and other sources supply raw materials to many important industries. They have aesthetic value and appeal for ecotourism, which supports the growth of the national economy. They are also potential sources of pharmaceuticals, other chemicals, agricultural materials, etc.

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October 25, 2024 Recommended

Types of species

Species can be classified in many different ways. One species classification system may categorise species into Typological, evolutionary, and phylogenetic species.

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