The Ecotrends

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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March 27, 2021 Recommended

KHEKSA- The Divine Vegetable

Kheksa is taxonomically known as Momordica dioica. It is commonly known as Kheksa, Spiny gourd, bristly Balsam pear, and Prickly carolaho, Kantola etc. It belongs to the family Cucurbitaceae.

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May 6, 2021 Recommended

Take Beet Roots and Spinach Soup to raise the Oxygen in Blood

In the current period of Corona Pandemic most of the people are running to and fro for oxygen container as if Oxygen can only cure the corona patients in this period.

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January 5, 2021 Recommended

Flowers and Flower Sellers

Flowers are most beautiful and attractive parts of a plant. These contain reproductive structures- male and female. Flowers containing any one of these structures are known as unisexual whereas flowers containing both the reproductive structures are known as bisexual.

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February 27, 2021 Recommended

Types of Family Structure in India

Family is a universal Organisaion. The structure and form of a family varies from society to society. Variations in the forms of family are created by culture, social system, social values, and conditions of life. It is difficult to classify family on any one of these bases.

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December 2, 2020 Recommended

Dairy Owners to Take Clearance from SPCB Jharkhand

The State Pollution Control Board, Jharkhand has passed an order for cattle rearing people not to keep more than nine cattle with them without its written permission.

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April 15, 2021 Recommended

Sarhul- The Festival that Links Life to Nature

Sarhul is celebrated on Chaitra Shukla Paksha Tritiya, which is today. Yes, the great Festival of tribal people of Jharkhand which is called as Sarhul is today.

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October 12, 2021 Recommended

Heredity, Its Physical Basis and Variations

Some specific characters are found in the parents of each species. These characters are transferred from generation to generation through the process of sexual reproduction.

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March 3, 2023 Recommended

Technological Evolution in 20^th century

The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry, is called as technology.

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March 2, 2023 Recommended

Coarse grains to promote health

Coarse grains are broadly discussed these days. Now the world has come to know about their importance. Coarse grains have been contained in the Indian dishes since long. Now that the harmful effects of soft grains are known, the world has come to advocate the coarse grains.

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January 1, 2025 Recommended

Various Important Alternatives to Deforestation

Deforestation contributes up to 20 percent of greenhouse gas emission which is more than the combined emission by all the cars, trucks, planes, boats and, trains of the world. Deforestation threatens our climate. Besides this, it threatens the livelihoods of 1.6 billion people who depend on forests for food and economic activities. They serve as habitats to rare and so far, undiscovered species of plants and animals. They also play a key role in maintaining water cycles and preventing floods and soil erosion. Hence, forests across the world need urgent measure of protection by all possible ways, may it be through alternatives to deforestation.

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May 21, 2022 Recommended

Plants and their Different Parts

Living organisms capable of synthesizing food on their own are called as plants. They contain chlorophyll, the green magnesium compound which helps in trapping the energy from sun. This energy runs the process of photosynthesis through which glucose is basically synthesized in leaves and green stems on combining together the atmospheric carbon dioxide and water.

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