Sir Arthur George Tansley coined the term Ecosystem in 1935.
An Oxford Ecologist and founder of New Phytologist, a botanical magazine, he was also the first president of the British Ecological Society.
According to Tansley, the ecosystem does not only include animals – complex, but the whole physical factors forming what we call the environment of the biome. He used the term to describe the importance of the transfer of materials between organisms and their environment.
Ernst Haeckel gave an exact definition of ecology as the study of the relationship of organisms with their environment.
An ecosystem refers to a geographical area where biotic and abiotic components interact with each other. There are four different types of ecosystem:
Forest Ecosystem
Grassland Ecosystem
Tundra Ecosystem
Desert Ecosystem
- Ramdeo Misra is the Father of Ecology in India.
- Aristotle is known as the Father of Biology & Father of Zoology.
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