what is an ecosystem
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An ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment, interacting as a system. ... By feeding on plants and on one-another, animals play an important role in the movement of matter and energy through the system.
➠ᴇᴄᴏʏsʏsᴛᴇᴍ :
An Ecosystem is self contained unit of living things(plants, animals and decomposers) and their non living environment (soil,air and water). An ecosystem needs on the input of sunlight energy for its functioning.The example of ecosystems are:-
• A Grassland
• A Forest
• A Desert
• A Mountain
• A lake or river
➠sᴏᴍᴇ ᴇxᴛʀᴀ :
The Various communities of living organism( plant and animal) interacts among themselves as well as a physical environment like (soil,air and water). The living organism interact with another through their food chains in which one organism consumes another organism. The living organism like plant interact with soil to get essential nutrient like nitrogen, phosphorus; with air to get carbon dioxide and also with water bodies for carrying out the process of photosynthesis.Thus, the various communities of living organism called biotic community like plants and animals, along with soil and water of that region from a self sustaining or functional unit of that living world.This functional unit of system made up of living and non-living components which is capable of independent existence is called an ecosystem.