what is the difference between environment and biosphere?
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Answer:
As nouns the difference between environment and biosphere
is that environment is the surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest while biosphere is the part of the earth and its atmosphere capable of supporting life.
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Then there is a hydrosphere which includes all of the liquid water on earth. We also have a good intuitive sense of what this includes, both freshwater and marine, but the boundaries are not quite as clear as the atmosphere.
The lithosphere is all of the ‘solid’ material of the earth: rock, soil, and yes, even ice (which may be considered, in geological terms, a mineral).
The biosphere, then, is that portion of the earth that comprises all of the life, the biota. The spatial boundaries of the biosphere are not as easily defined as the other ‘spheres’ because biota inhabit portions of all the other ‘spheres’. And as such it may be a confusing concept for some of us. But in the context of all of the ‘spheres’ it makes more sense.
As for the ecosystem, this is a concept that can have many different boundary definitions. The ecosystem is any system of any size that is has definable boundaries and includes interacting biological and abiotic processes (physical and chemical). An ecosystem could be quite large, even the size of the earth. It could also be quite small and include microbes in a small region of soil or water. The boundaries could be physical (we often apply ‘watersheds’ as one kind of boundary) or functional (the strength of internal system interactions is stronger than those with external factors). As Tansley said, “…from atoms to the universe…” ecosystems are entities that allow us to integrate all of the processes in whatever spatial or temporal scale we use to define them.
Therefore, ecosystems occur throughout the biosphere. But they are often identified by their abiotic processes as well as their biotic ones.
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