The ecosystem maintains health and balance based on these ecological principles:

1. Adaptation is the result of changing to survive in a dynamic environment, or it is a trait

that permits a species to survive in its environment. It can be in two ways: first, as a
hereditary attribute being transmitted starting with one generation to another, and allow
an organism to survive in the environment. This kind of adaptation results in the costing
of many individuals in a population. Subsequently, individual organisms adapt
immediately to the changes in a specific environment known as acclimation; second,
another type of adaptation influences populations because of the breakage of an
enormous unit of individuals creating a smaller group in establishing a colony. For an
organism to survive in a specific environment, hereditary attributes suitable for survival
from one generation to another. The associated concepts for adaptation are natural
selection and evolution as natural selection leads to evolution.
2. Limiting factors are anything that constrains or compel a population's size and slows
or stops it from growing. All living things need food, water, shelter, and space to survive.
As long as organisms have all of these things available to them, their population will
continue. However, populations cannot grow forever. Limiting factors are usually
expressed as a lack of a particular resource, for example, if there is not enough space
in a pond for a large number of fish. Types of limiting factors are density independent
factors, density dependent factors, correlated to the population size, either a positive or
negative impact, a positive impact results to increase with the size of the population and
limit growth as population size increases while a negative impact results to limited
population growth at low densities and becomes less limited as it grows.
3. Diversity talks about the changes in environmental conditions over time that have led
to variety within each level of organization. One associated concept for diversity is
competition where organisms compete for resources such as food, water, soil nutrients,
sunlight, etc. Animals also vie for space to nest, roost, hibernate, or raise young, as well
as for mating rights. There are two different types of competition: first, intraspecific
competition that occurs between members of the same group of species. For example,
two male birds (parrot) of the same species might compete for mates in the same area.
This type of competition is an essential factor in natural selection. It leads to the
evolution of better adaptations within a species. With this, members of such species are
less likely to survive and may gradually to extinction. Second, interspecific competition
that occurs between members of different species. For example, predators of different
species might compete for the same prey.