The structure and organisation

of ecosystem

Devi Ram Ghale

Outline
• What is an ecosystem?
• Components of ecosystem.
• The biotic factor.
• The abiotic factor.
• Organisation within an ecosystem.
• Assessment questions.
Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a natural unit consisting of all
plants, animals and micro-organisms (biotic
factors) in an area functioning together with
all of the non-living physical (abiotic) factors
of the environment
Components of ecosystem
• The biotic factors.
• The Abiotic factors.
The biotic factor
• The biotic factors are the living things ,
that affect the survival of other
organisms in that ecosystem. Eg.
Producers, consumers, decomposers,
etc.
• It depends upon abiotic factor .
The Abiotic factors.
• The biotic factors are those non living
things that affect the abundance and
distribution of animals and plants in an
ecosystem. Eg. Soil composition,
temperature , solar energy ,etc.
Organisation within an ecosystem
• The whole earth's surface can be described as a series of
interconnected ecosystems .It is not only individuals within a
species that interact with each other. Different species of
animals interact with each other all the time. For instance,
animals eat other animals through their interactions in a food
web. But plants are included in this web as well as they, too,
are eaten by animals. And the other factor that affect their
interaction is the landscape as well as the weather because it
should be suitable for animals , plants and bacteria to
survive.Hence, an ecosystem is a geographical area of a variable
size where plants, animals, the landscape and the climate all
interact together and affect one another.
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Assessment questions
 What is an ecosystem?
 What are the components of ecosystem?
 What is the biotic factor of ecosystem?
 What is the abiotic factor of ecosystem?
 Classify each of them as a biotic or
abiotic factor of ecosystem:solar energy
,human beings, trees, wind energy and
direction,predators,
precipitation,producers, temperature ,
current,decomposers, soil
composition,salinity