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Ecosystem and The Components of Ecosystem: Jayesh N. Idate

An ecosystem is a community of living organisms that interact with each other and their non-living environment. The living components (biotic factors) such as plants, animals, and microbes interact with non-living components (abiotic factors) like air, water, and soil. Abiotic factors include physical conditions like temperature, light, and humidity that affect living things. Biotic factors include producers that convert energy through photosynthesis, consumers that feed on producers and each other, and decomposers that break down waste. Together, the biotic and abiotic components cycle matter and energy through the ecosystem.

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Ecosystem and The Components of Ecosystem: Jayesh N. Idate

An ecosystem is a community of living organisms that interact with each other and their non-living environment. The living components (biotic factors) such as plants, animals, and microbes interact with non-living components (abiotic factors) like air, water, and soil. Abiotic factors include physical conditions like temperature, light, and humidity that affect living things. Biotic factors include producers that convert energy through photosynthesis, consumers that feed on producers and each other, and decomposers that break down waste. Together, the biotic and abiotic components cycle matter and energy through the ecosystem.

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Ecosystem and the components

of ecosystem
Jayesh N. Idate
[email protected]
What is ecosystem???
• An ecosystem is a community made up of living
organisms and nonliving components such as air, water,
and mineral soil.
• The living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components
interact through nutrient cycles and energy flows.
• Ecosystems include interactions among organisms, and
between organisms and their environment.
• Ecosystems can be of any size but each ecosystem has
a specific, limited space.
• Some scientists view the entire planet as one
ecosystem.
Ecosystem
A biotic component
• In biology and ecology, abiotic components or abiotic factors are non-living
chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and
the functioning of ecosystems. Abiotic factors and the phenomena associated with
them underpin all biology.
• Abiotic components include physical conditions and non-living resources that
affect living organisms in terms of growth, maintenance, and reproduction.
Resources are distinguished as substances or objects in the environment required
by one organism and consumed or otherwise made unavailable for use by other
organisms.[1][2]
• Component degradation of a substance occurs by chemical or physical processes,
e.g. hydrolysis. All non-living components of an ecosystem, such as atmospheric
conditions and water resources, are called abiotic components.[3]
• abiotic factors can include water, light, radiation,
temperature, humidity, atmosphere, and soil.
Biotic Components
• Biotic components or biotic factors, can be described as any living
component that affects another organism, or shapes the ecosystem.
• This includes both animals that consume other organisms within their
ecosystem, and the organism that is being consumed.
• Biotic factors also include human influence, pathogens, and disease
outbreaks.
• Each biotic factor needs the proper amount of energy and nutrition to
function day to day.
• Biotic components are typically sorted into three main categories:
 Producers, otherwise known as autotrophs, convert energy (through the
process of photosynthesis) into food.
 Consumers, otherwise known as heterotrophs, depend upon producers
(and occasionally other consumers) for food.
 Decomposers, otherwise known as detritivores, break down chemicals
from producers and consumers (usually antibiotic) into simpler form which
can be reused.
Matter in ecosystem
Energy in Ecosystem
Drive Factor
• External and internal factors:
• Primary production
• Energy flow
• Decomposition

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