How does Lotus aids in maintaing ecological balance?
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Ecological balance is a term used to describe the equilibrium between living organisms such as human being, plants, and animals as well as their environment. Photosynthesis that takes place in ecosystem contributes to building a good environment that stabilizes the coexistence of all organisms. Harmonious relationships reflect healthy and desirable ecological balance. Human being plays a key role to maintain ecological balance because they have the highest thinking capacity as compared to other living organisms. Sufficient food availability to all living organisms and their stability reflect the existence of ecological balance. Therefore, this balance is very important because it ensures survival, existence and stability of the environment.
Survival of all organisms is actualized due to ecological balance. Various species survive because favorable ecosystems were created. Favorable ecosystem ensures that each organism thrive and multiply as expected. They get enough food to keep them alive. Ecological balance is also important because it leads to the continuous existence of the organisms. It ensures that no particular species is exploited or overused. For example, human activities such as farming and resources exploitation are checked to prevent excessive destruction of the forests. Deforestation leads to drought. Drought reduces food production resulting to insufficient food. Insufficient food leads to starvation and later death occurs, hence reducing the existence of some species.
Lotus can maintain the ecological balance or in the other word, it is called as Lotus effect.
Explanation:
Lotus has the property of self cleaning so it is used to produce different product in our daily life, for example paint, and roof tiles etc.The outer most part of the lotus leaf is very rough so, creates a boundary of the plant surface and the outer environment. This rough surface is composed of the compound of wax.