The Ecotrends

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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October 26, 2021 Recommended

The Danger of Extinction of Ten Lac Species during this Century

These birds used to fly in and around our houses about some decades ago. But these birds are very rarely seen in our surroundings.

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April 8, 2021 Recommended

Aadya Links Relations

Aadya a three years girl lives with her Nani, Nanoo, and Mom in a flat of a big apartment. Her mother is a Senior Secondary teacher and her father is a scientist in IIT, Mumbai.

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December 22, 2022 Recommended

Adapting to the environment

Abrupt changes in environment often do not give time to an organism to get ready and to face the challenges. As such the organism can survive only when it has sufficient abilities to tolerate these changes.

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September 10, 2022 Recommended

Local and Global Effects of Pollution

On the local and regional levels, air pollution creates various types of problems against living and non- living environment. In the living environment it causes different types of physical, physiological and mental diseases.

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January 23, 2021 Recommended

Working Time and Leisure Time: the Basic Concepts

Working time is the time when a person remains busy in doing some work. It may be the part of his daily routine when he has to do something either assigned by an organisation or by his own plan of work.

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