Ecosystem

Ningaloo Reef Marine Ecosystem 1. Identify ten organisms from your chosen ecosystem and draw a food web to show trophic interactions between them. Within this food web, you must include and label a decomposer. Ten organisms that live in the Ningaloo Reef include the bottlenose dolphin, loggerhead turtle, tiger shark, whale shark, Southern Calamari squid, jellyfish, zooplankton, dugong, phytoplankton and seagrass. The decomposer in this food web is bacteria, which works to further break down…

Introduction Invasive or non-native plants pose a threat to ecosystems throughout the United States. In California alone, approximately 3,000 invasive plant species have been introduced (17, Dowell and Krass). These plants cause damages to native vegetation and often out compete their native counterparts (17). One species of slender oat, Avena barbata, is threatening native plants in California (Cal- IPC). This paper will focus on current research on the effects of invasive plants including A…

In the movie The Lorax something happens that will change the ecosystem. Here is the Once-ler who will tell exactly what happened. It was a bright and sunny day when I said goodbye to my family. I had come up with this great invention called the thneed. The problem is I did not have the material to make the thneeds, so I decided to travel until I found what I needed. I found a beautiful and sustainable ecosystem that was filled with colorful truffula trees and many different animals. The…

"we currently have a very inadequate understanding of how to build closed ecosystems that are robust to perturbation by introduced organisms...", essentially we internally contain little to no information on how to successfully create an ecosystem that is unfazed by the introduction of a new life form. Scientific American further emphasizes the struggle of colonizing outer space by suspecting that "the contained ecosystem problem will turn out to be much more challenging than the vast majority…

shorter if their born in a zoo. If we take animals out of their environment, that will hurt the environment(“A zoo”). All animals play an important role in their ecosystem, even if their at the top of their food chain. If animals like tigers or lions are taken out of their environment other species will star over producing making the ecosystem unbalanced. If animals that are usually…

The climate change is a threat to an Inuit community who are primarily whale hunters of the Arctic region in Northern Canada. Because the climate change might greatly influence the ecosystem, their cultures (social impacts), and economy. First, the climate change will greatly interrupt the ecosystem in the Arctic region, because of the permafrost. Including warmer ocean currents that was caused by climate change. When the active layer is decomposed and reaching too much, because of the…

When people began to become aware of the residual effects of biocides on ecosystems and even on humans, people gathered against them. Carson quotes a forestry officer from Germany stated that “We, therefore, have to put an end to these unnatural manipulations brought into the most important and almost last natural living space…

species for many obvious reasons, such as it would help with ecosystems, earth would be much cleaner, and it would improve life for future generations to come. First, we should help protect the endangered species for our ecosystems. On the website Nature Matters, it points out that if we help out, we will be able to maintain a healthy and functional ecosystems for the animals on this planet. What I mean by healthy and functional ecosystem is that if zebras become extinct, then those animals…

balance. Corals reefs are living creatures and ecosystems that are located in shallow warm tropical oceans, which house hundreds of tropical species of fish. Unfortunately, tourism and human related climate change is killing reef’s around the world causing loss of habitat and pressuring species survival. Tourism has a number of factors that destroy the reefs such as chemical pollutants and seaweed infestation inflicting coral preventing the ecosystem to flourish . Global warming directly affects…

Analysis of Articles to Determine Which is the Stronger Case for the Protection of the Wolf Population By: Trinton Leegan The article by Ed Young called “Scared to Death,” as well as the article by Sharon Levy entitled “Wolf Family Values,” both support the protection of the wolf. Each gave their own ideas about the benefits of protecting the wolf. While both articles touch on wolf conservation tactics, the article that presents the stronger case for the need for wolf protection is the…