What is ecology? Describe components of ecosystem?
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The study of Ecosystems mainly consists of the study of certain processes that link the living, or Biotic, components to the non-living, or Abiotic, components. Energy transformations and biogeochemical cycling are the main processes that comprise the field of ecosystem ecology.
As we learned earlier, ecology generally is defined as the interactions of organisms with one another and with the environment in which they occur. We can study ecology at the level of the individual, the population, the community, and the Ecosystem.
We can clarify the parts of an ecosystem by listing them under the headings "Abiotic" and "Biotic".
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Usually, biological communities comprise the "functional groupings" shown above. A functional group is a biological category composed of organisms that perform mostly the same kind of function in the system; for example, all the photosynthetic plants or primary producers form a functional group. Membership in the functional group does not depend very much on who the actual players (species) happen to be, only on what function they perform in the Ecosystem.
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Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with one another and with their physical environment. The distribution and abundance of organisms on Earth is shaped by both biotic, living-organism-related, and abiotic, nonliving or physical, factors.