The Ecotrends

September 30, 2024

Positive and Negative Interdependence among Organisms in Ecosystems

Interdependence between two species through which individuals of either one or both species benefit is called positive interdependence. The benefits to the individual of any species through this relationship may be continuous or transitory, obligate or facultative. Both partners in this type of relationship may be in close contact; one may be inside some specific area or attached to the surface of the other’s body. Positive interdependence is divided into three major types: mutualism, Commensalism, and proto-cooperation.

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July 25, 2022 Recommended

Quality of life Vs. Quality of environment

practices of modernization have disturbed the quality of environment.

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January 4, 2023 Recommended

Medicinal Weed Argemone Mexicana or Satyanasi

Medicinal weed Argemone Mexicana or Satyanasi is a prickly weed. It has been introduced and naturalized in India. It grows as waste land weed in almost every part of the country. It is reported as crop weed also in many parts of the country.

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August 12, 2022 Recommended

Leaf fall and Compost making

Plants and trees shed their leaves from time to time. This happens due to a number of reasons. From some plants and tree leaves continue falling throughout the year. At the same time new leaves continue developing to compensate their number.

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December 27, 2020 Recommended

Our Environment has a Limit of Tolerance

We have been hearing about environmental pollution, loss of biodiversity, energy crisis, and the sustainable environment since long. So many things have already been infused in school syllabi as well. But how many of us really apply in our real life the things about which we have read in our classes? If you collect yourselves and think seriously, you may find that you are still not as careful as you are supposed to be.

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July 1, 2021 Recommended

Grow Pakad for more oxygen

Pakad or Ficus virens is one significant tree of the Panchvati group. Panchvati is the group of five sacred or important trees worshipped and adorned in the Hindu culture since ancient time.

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June 27, 2022 Recommended

Indicators of Environment

A substance, factor, change, living being or a system that quantifies and simplifies phenomena and helps in understanding complex realities,…

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August 26, 2022 Recommended

Community Eating and Mid-Day Meal Programme

Eating together is a traditional practice not only in India but in most of the countries of the world. It is practiced in all types of societies and in all cultures.

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November 30, 2020 Recommended

Integrated Forest Conservation- Public-Private Ownership

In the new strategy of the Forest Management, local public is allowed to be involved in conservation and management of forests with the government. This strategy is called as Integrated Forest Conservation and Management.

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August 28, 2024 Recommended

What is Ozone layer? How is it depleted and what are the control measures?

Ozone absorbs ultraviolet radiations so that much of it is never allowed to reach to the earth surface. The protective umbrella of ozone layer in the stratosphere protects the earth from harmful ultraviolet radiations. Ozone plays an important role in the biology and climatology on the earth’s environment. It filters out all the radiations that remain below 3000Å. Radiations below this wavelength are biologically harmful. Hence any depletion of ozone layer is sure to exert catastrophic impacts on life in the biosphere.

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June 22, 2022 Recommended

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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July 12, 2020 Recommended

Rains in Nepal caused floods in Bihar

Rains in Nepal have always been responsible for floods in Bihar. Most of the rivers flowing through Bihar have their origins in Nepal. Since last three days Nepal is experiencing continuous rainfall. This is why villages in Bihar are being seriously flooded. What can be done?

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