How is biodiversity important for ecosystem functioning?
How is biodiversity important for ecosystem functioning?
Biodiversity plays a major role in many ecosystem services that nature provides.
(i) Pure oxygen The Amazon forest is estimated to produce, through photosynthesis, 20% of the total oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
(ii) Pollination without which plants cannot give us fruits or seeds, is another service, ecosystems provide through pollinators - butterflies, bees, bumbleees, birds and bats.
(iii) Flood and soil erosion control plants help water retention, percolation and prevent soil erosion.
(iv) Nutrient replenishment plant biomass that falls on ground is the biggest source of recycled nutrients after decomposition.
(v) Waste recycling by microbes and other insects, etc., without which the Earth would simply become a huge pile of garbage and polluting material.
(vi) Aesthetic pleasure that we derive from nature, by walking through thick woods, watching spring flowers in full bloom or waking up to a bulbul's song in the morning.
Biodiversity plays a major role in many ecosystem services that nature provides.
(i) Pure oxygen The Amazon forest is estimated to produce, through photosynthesis, 20% of the total oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
(ii) Pollination without which plants cannot give us fruits or seeds, is another service, ecosystems provide through pollinators - butterflies, bees, bumbleees, birds and bats.
(iii) Flood and soil erosion control plants help water retention, percolation and prevent soil erosion.
(iv) Nutrient replenishment plant biomass that falls on ground is the biggest source of recycled nutrients after decomposition.
(v) Waste recycling by microbes and other insects, etc., without which the Earth would simply become a huge pile of garbage and polluting material.
(vi) Aesthetic pleasure that we derive from nature, by walking through thick woods, watching spring flowers in full bloom or waking up to a bulbul's song in the morning.
