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October 11, 2024

Biodiversity, Its Concept, Values, Loss, and Causes of Loss

An association of all the plants at a particular place is called a Plant Community and the association of all the animals at the same place is called an Animal Community. Both the plant and animal communities inhabit a particular place living completely merged and interacting among them. Members of a community not only interact with the members of other communities, they interact with the members of their community and with the physical environment around them, as well.

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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 9, 2022

Habitat Destruction

Nearly half of the planet’s plant and animal species live in Rainforests. Less than 2.5 billion acres of Tropical Forest have remained out of four billion acres on the Earth within a few hundred years.

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May 24, 2022

Bio invasion and Genetic Erosion

The process by which a new species is introduced into a habitat is called as Bio invasion. A number of…

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February 14, 2021

Care for the Little Angels around You

The balance of nature is maintained by its different components -living and non-living, if they remain unaltered by human beings.

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January 22, 2021

Animals and Their Amazing World -III

The term animal has its origin from the Latin word animalis which means one who has breath. This word is usually applied for the non-human members of the Kingdom Animalia in animal taxonomy.

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October 24, 2020

Basic Concept of Biodiversity

Vast variability exists in the distribution or occurrence of different life forms in different habitats. The variability of life forms in a particular habitat is considered as the biodiversity of that habitat.

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January 8, 2021 Recommended

Eat Tilkuts of Gaya on this Makar Sankranti

The Makar Sankranti, the festival of Sun Worship and the festival of harvest is usually celebrated on 14th or 15th of January every year. This year, it is going to be celebrated on the 14th January 2021.

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October 3, 2022 Recommended

International legal regimes: on trade and environment

The Environmental Calamities that shook the humanity during fifties and sixties were powerful enough to generate serious and widespread sense of responsibility among world nations towards the global environment. Some of these calamities include : The killer smog in New York and London which claimed 5000 lives in 1952; The mercury poisoning due to the consumption of mercury-contaminated seafood in Japan;

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November 25, 2024 Recommended

Pollution and its various Types

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.

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January 5, 2025 Recommended

Recycling and Paper Industry

The process of recovering or reusing usable materials from discarded waste is called recycling. For example, about 15 per cent of Sulphuric acid is recycled in chemical manufacturing. In the early days, all the sulphur needed for the production of sulphuric acid was taken out of mines directly. But now, with the prevailing tendencies of recycling, sulphuric acid manufacturing industries are using sulphur from smelters, refineries, etc.

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August 8, 2024 Recommended

Elephants damaged many houses in Bero, Ranchi

A group of sixteen elephants entered into three villages of Doranda Panchayat of Bero sub division of Ranchi district. These villages are Sero, Baidh Khijri and Karge.

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