Thursday, February 13, 2014

Forest Ecosystem

Forest Ecosystem

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An ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the non-living components of their environment. Living organisms are animals, birds mammals, plannts,fungi, insects etc. Non-living components are water, air, minerla soil, wind, which greatly affect different plants, animals, fungi etc. Those living organisms are called biotic, and non-living ones abiotic. 
 Trees are important components of forest research. 
There are 3 types of organisms in a forest ecosystem. They are herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. Herbivores eat only plants, carnivores eat meat and herbivores. And omnivores eat both plants and meat. 
Organisms, living in a forest ecosystem, are connected with each other with food web., which consists of some similiar food chains. 
Animals can't convert sunlight to energy, so they are dependant on trees and plants, and do that process through photosynthesis,in which sunlight energy is converted to  sugars in plants, kind of organisms, called producers. Animals can also hunt on other animals as a source of food, this kind of animals are known as predators.

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