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Post by Ms. Duncan on Apr 24, 2018 21:41:16 GMT
All organisms in an ecosystem are tied together by their need for energy. An ecosystem runs on the energy captured by primary consumers. Consumers get energy (and carbon) by feeding on tissues and remains of producers, and on each other. Detritivores eat bits of decaying matter, and decomposers feed on wastes and remains. Producers and consumers, then, interact with each other and are tied to each other (and the environment) by a one-way flow of energy and a cycling of materials.
What would happen to an ecosystem if all the producers disappeared? What if all the consumers or decomposers or detritivores disappeared?
Can you find an example of an ecosystem disturbance? How can an ecosystem recover from such a disturbance?
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Post by felicitybeltran on Apr 29, 2018 23:38:49 GMT
If all an ecosystem's producers were to disappear from the ecosystem, then the ecosystem wouldn't exist because it would not have anything to produce any food, energy, or water. All of the living organisms would struggle and all die. The ecosystem would eventually die off in a shot amount of time. If there were no decomposers on the earth,then there would be corpses of all organisms spread to each part of the earth, and of course because of no decomposers,there will be no manure or nutrients medium for plants to grow, there would be no vegetables to eat and without them human cannot survive. Fires and floods are examples of natural disturbances that force change upon an ecosystem. Natural disturbances are also caused by diseases, severe storms, insects, volcanic activity, earthquakes, droughts, and longnterm freezing. You could recover from a fire by calling servpro
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