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    1) The document discusses the key concepts of ecology and ecosystems. It defines ecology as the study of organisms in their natural habitat interacting with their surroundings. 2) An ecosystem is defined as a self-regulating group of biotic communities of species interacting with one another and with their non-living environment exchanging energy and matter. 3) Ecosystems can be classified as natural like forests, grasslands, or deserts, or artificial/engineered ecosystems. They have abiotic components like climate and soil factors as well as biotic components including producers, consumers, and decomposers.

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    ECOLOGY

    Dr. Vijay K. Khorwal


    CHE 110: Environmental Studies

    Unit - 2

    Ecosystems
    U2_L1_W2_07092020_CHE110_VK

    Vijaykant Khorwal
    Ph.D. Chemistry
    (IIT Bombay,Mumbai)
    Introduction

    ▪ Greek word “Oikos” meaning “home” and “logos” meaning “study”

    ▪ Ecology: The study of organisms in their natural habitat interacting with


    their surroundings

    ▪ Ecosystem: A self-regulating group of biotic communities of species


    interacting with one another and with their non-living environment
    exchanging energy and matter

    This PPT should be used as reference only. Reading books (mentioned in syllabus)
    is mandatory for the preparation of the examinations.
    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.
    ➢ According to British ecologist Arthur Tansley (1935), an ecosystem is a system that arises from the
    integration of all living and non-living factors of the environment.
    ➢ An ecosystem is a self-sustained community of plants and animals existing in its own environment.
    ➢ The term ecosystem may be defined as a system resulting from the integration of all the living and non
    living factors of the environment. Desert, Forest, Ocean, Grasslands, Mountains, etc. are all ecosystems
    ➢ An ecosystem can be as large as the Sahara Desert, or as small as a puddle!!!

    This PPT should be used as reference only. Reading books (mentioned in syllabus)
    is mandatory for the preparation of the examinations.
    Classification
    ▪ Classification of ecosystem
    ▪ Natural ecosystem
    ▪ Aquatic
    o Fresh water
    • Running water Lotic Ecosystems
    • Standing water Lentic Ecosystems
    o Marine
    ▪ Terrestrial
    o Grassland
    o Forest
    o Desert
    ▪ Artificial / Engineered ecosystem
    This PPT should be used as reference only. Reading books (mentioned in syllabus)
    is mandatory for the preparation of the examinations.
    Structural unit
    ▪ Abiotic
    ▪ Physical
    ▪ Climatic (Sunlight, temperature, humidity, rainfall,
    wind)
    ▪ Edaphic (soil type, soil moisture, soil reaction)
    ▪ Geographic (Latitude, longitude, Altitude)
    ▪ Chemical
    ▪ Major nutrients
    ▪ Trace elements
    ▪ Pollutants
    ▪ Organic substances
    This PPT should be used as reference only. Reading books (mentioned in syllabus)
    is mandatory for the preparation of the examinations.
    Limiting Factors
    ▪ Factors which restrict the further growth of population
    ▪ Availability of food
    ▪ Water
    ▪ Shelter
    ▪ Space
    ▪ Nutrients

    This PPT should be used as reference only. Reading books (mentioned in syllabus)
    is mandatory for the preparation of the examinations.
    Continue…
    ▪ Biotic
    ▪ Producers
    ▪ Photo-autotrophs: Carry out photosynthesis. Using energy from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water are converted
    into organic materials to be used in cellular functions.
    ▪ Chemo-autotrophs: create their own energy and biological materials from inorganic chemicals (Nitrosomonas, Iron
    bacteria, Methanogens)
    ▪ Consumers
    ▪ Herbivores
    ▪ Carnivores
    ▪ Omnivores
    ▪ Detritivores
    ▪ Decomposers

    This PPT should be used as reference only. Reading books (mentioned in syllabus)
    is mandatory for the preparation of the examinations.
    Functional unit
    ▪ Food chain (sequence of eating and being eaten), food
    web, trophic structure
    ▪ Energy flow
    ▪ Cycling of nutrients

    This PPT should be used as reference only. Reading books (mentioned in syllabus)
    is mandatory for the preparation of the examinations.

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