Record ways in which non living things are important
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they are resources to us
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The non-living things (physical and chemical processes and materials) compose both independent factors that can control everything (such as sunlight) as well as interactive factors which dynamically interact with biota (such as carbon dioxide, other plant nutrients and for that matter, factors such as humidity and temperature) the biological processes are not more important than the physical (and chemical) ones. All of them interact to compose the ecosystem in the first place and without consideration of of the non-living things, you’re not addressing the ecosystem in its entirety.
they have following functions:
1. Capture of energy, chemical elements/substances and information from environment following by transformation into biomass and introduction into ecosystem. In simple words is transformation from abiotic to biotic.
2. Flow of biomass through ecosystem, from one trophic level to another, following different food chain paths. We have there also recycling of disposed organic mass and generating biomass, and reintroducing back into ecosystem
3. Controlling other species, keeping constant the numeric effective of populations of different species in the ecosystem. We have there specialised consumers or predators, non-specialised consumers or predators, specialised parasites and microbes, non-specialised parasites and microbes. Sometimes only food resources is the factor that can stop the species from overpopulating.
4. Decomposing and returning of chemical elements back into environment. So they go back to function 1. So, we have some sort of cycle there. I would say many different cycles.