Anytime a ‘stranger’ (living thing(s) or external factor such as a rise in temperature) is introduced to an ecosystem, it can be disastrous to that ecosystem. That is because the new organism (or factor) can distort the natural balance of the interaction and potentially harm or destroy ...
“An ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water, and mineral soil), interacting as a system. These biotic and abiotic components are regarded as linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. As ...
What are the main ecological roles of bacteria in the ecosystem? What types of industries use diatoms? What is the benefit of an ecosystem-based method of conservation? What zone of the ecosystem has the most biomass in it? What type of organism makes up most of this biomass?
Plankton is certainly the smallest living element of the food web in freshwater ecosystems. It is a tiny organism that is normally eaten by fish and other little creatures. Oceanic Ecosystems Covering about 71 percent of Earth’s surface and containing about 97 percent of all the Earth’s water...
Log In Sign Up Subjects Science Biology What is biology? What is an organism?Question:What is biology? What is an organism?A Branch of Study:Biology is one branch of science that includes many different areas of study. Biologists are scientists that study the various areas of biology, ...
Log In Sign Up Subjects Humanities What is an antonym for ecosystem?Question:What is an antonym for ecosystem?Antonyms:Antonyms can be defined as words that mean the opposite of other words. For example, the antonym for high is low. The antonym for cold is hot. Sometime a word may ...
AnEcological Indicatoris an organism that gives us data about an ecosystem, such as its biodiversity. We use ecological indicators to gain information about ecosystems and our impact on those ecosystems. ‘Ecological indicator’ is a collective term for stressor indicators, habitat response, and expos...
What is a Systems Biologist? A systems biologist studies complex biological systems by analyzing how the different parts of an organism work together. These scientists take a holistic approach, looking at the interactions and relationships between genes, proteins, cells, and other components to ...
Whether or not these traits are adaptations to fire is debatable. Bushfire and their impacts can be as diverse as the environments in which they occur. Commensurate with this, there exists a diversity of ecosystem and organism responses to a single fire event and to the cumulative...
By definition, a relict is something that remains from an entity that has mostly disappeared (Merriam-Webster 2014; Lincoln et al. 1982). In evolutionary biology, a relict species remains of a group that is mainly extinct (Grandcolas et al. 2014; Fig. 1). The basis for this inference is...