Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Preserve Your Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a natural unit consisting of all plants, animals and micro-organisms in an area functioning together with all the non-living physical factors of the environment. The examples of the ecosystem are Aquatic ecosystem, Chaparral, Coral reef, Desert, Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, Human ecosystem, Large marine ecosystem, Littoral zone, Marine ecosystem, Rain forests, Savanna, Subsurface Lithoautotrophic Microbial ecosystem, Taiga, Tundra and Urban ecosystems. Today, there are ecosystem services and they are fundamental life-support services upon which human civilization depends, and can be direct or indirect. For example for direct ecosystem services are pollination, wood, erosion prevention etc. Indirect services could be considered climate moderation, nutrient cycles, detoxifying natural substances and many more. We are causing pollution, we are destroying habitats and we are creating disastrous effects on this planet and there for, Global Warming. While the climate gets higher on this planet, it changes the atmosphere and the environment. Rivers and ponds turning into dry lands and forests on fire, because of high temperature. To preserve this we should start to use less electricity, drive less or carpool, and definitely we should not have that many factories, because all of these are the cause for Global Warming and is destroying the ecosystem and i encourage everyone to help preserve these ecosystems and these environments.