Ecosystem

Name: Mansi Prajapati 033

Harsh Desai 020
Sem: 4 Year- 2
Subject: Landscape

what is ecosystem?
Anecosystemis abiological environment consisting of all the
livingorganismsorBiotic component, in a particular area, and
the nonliving, orAbiotic component such as air, soil, water and
sunlight with which the organisms interact.

Functional

aspects of ecosystem are:

Energy cycles
Food chains
Diversity- interlinks between organisms
Nutrient cycles- biogeochemical cycles
Evolution

Biotic

Abiotic

Sunlight
Primary producer
Tempreture
Hervivorus
Precipitatio
Carniorous
Water or Moisture
Omnivorus
Soil or Chemical
Detritivorous
content

ECOSYSTEM

BIOTIC
FACTORS

ABIOTIC
FACTORS

Forest
Natural

Grassland
Aquatic
Desert

Types of
Ecosystem

Terres-trial
Artificial

Micro-bial
Aquatic

Forest

High rainfall
Large number of organism and flora
Highly diverse population
Stability of ecosystem is very sensitive

Types

of Forest

Tropical evergreen forest

Tropical deciduous forest
Temperate evergreen forest
Temperate deciduous forest
Taiga

Features

of Forest Ecosystem

Forest canopy
Forest floor
Forest soil

Funtion

ecosystem:

of forest ecosystem

Watershed Protection
Atmospheric regulation
Soil Erosion Control
Wind Erosion Control

Desert

High temperature, intense sunlight and low water

Flora and fauna are very poorly developed and scarce
Organisms are xeric adaptive
Scarely populated

Types

of desert

Sand desert
Stony desert
Rock desert
Plateau desert
Mountain desert
Cold desert

Features

of desert ecosystem

Rainfall
Temperature
Soil
light
Plants and animals are adapted to live in extremities

Funtion

Ecosystem

of desert ecosystem

Solar energy resource

Mineral resource

 Producers:

plants are producers in the ecosystem, as the manufracture

their food by using energy from the sun.

Consumers:

Consumers are oring other organisms of an ecological food chain

that receive energy by consuming other organisms.

Decomposers:

A bacterium or fungus ,that feeds on and breaks down dead

plant or animal matter, thus making organic nutrients available
to the ecosystem.

Energy

flow in ecosystem:

every ecosystem has several interrelated mechanisms that

affect human life. These are the water cycle, carbon cycle, the
oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle and the energy circle.
Every ecosystem is controlled by these cycle, each ecosystems
abiotic and abiotic features arevdistinct from each other.
All the function of the ecosystem are in some way related to the
growth and regeneration of its lant and animal species.

 Food

chain:

The transfer of energy from the source in plants

through a series of organisms, by eating and being
eaten.

 Food

webs:

At each transfer, a large proportion of enrgy is lost in

the form of heat. These food chains are not isolated
sequences, but are interconnected with each other.
The interlocking pattern is known as the food web.

 Ecological

pyramids:

The trophic level together form the ecological pyramid.