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What makes a healthy ecosystem?


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Ecosystem:

  1. An ecosystem refers to any geographic area in which plants, animals, and all other living organisms thrive together.
  2. It includes both biotic and abiotic factors such as weather, temperature, and humidity.
  3. A healthy ecosystem is an ecosystem in which the physical, chemical, and biological components are co-dependent and are capable of withstanding any environmental change.
  4. It has the right conditions for the different life varieties to survive and replicate.
  5. A healthy ecosystem has three key attributes - productivity, resilience, and organization.
  6. Productivity refers to the rate of biomass formation in the ecosystem and the energy accumulated in the plants.
  7. The resilience of an ecosystem is the ability of the ecosystem to maintain the normal patterns of nutrient cycling and biomass formation.
  8. The ecological levels of organization are described as species, population, community, and ecosystem.

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