Sustainable Ecosystems

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Sustainable Ecosystems
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What is a sustainable ecosystem?

• Sustainability the ability to meet the needs of
  today without compromising the needs of future
  generations
• Ecosystem the interactions of living things with
  their environment.

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Sustainable ecosystems

• Support organisms (living things) and can
  continue to do so in the future.
• Are biodiverse have many species of organisms
  living in them.

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Sustainable ecosystems provide to organisms

• a continual food source
• clean water
• sufficient space
• a suitable habitat
• other living organisms to interact with

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Ecosystem terms

• Ecology - the study of how organisms interact
  with each other and with their environment.
• Abiotic factors all non living things (eg
• Biotic factors all living things (eg
• Habitat physical area where an organism lives
• Niche role of the organism in that ecosystem
  (eg

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Ecosystem terms

• Species a type of living thing (eg.
• Population a group of the same species living
  in the same area (eg
• Community different populations living in the
  same area (eg

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What would cause an ecosystem to be
unsustainable?

• Pollution, lack of space, lack of food, lack of
  water, low biodiversity
• What would happen to organisms in an
  unsustainable ecosystem?
• ? EXTINCTION (the permanent disappearance of a
  species of organism)