Facts about Our Ecosystem You Ought To Know

Its components include microorganisms, animals and plants; minerals, rocks, and soil; as well as the local atmosphere and surrounding water sources. Even the body of an animal can be considered as an ecosystem due to the interaction of several processes happening on the inside and outside of it to sustain the life of the animal. Let us look into a few of the ecosystems around us to have a better understanding of the world around us.

• The Earth: One of the biggest and complex ecosystems known to man, the earth, is a thing of beauty with its lush green forests and plush wildlife. The earth is responsible for incorporating several subsystems like the biosphere, the geosphere and the hydrosphere. The Biosphere in itself is an ecosystem as it covers all living things, from plants to animals. The biosphere draws together all formerly living things that have not yet decomposed. The geosphere covers things like the soil and the extreme upper portion of the continental crust whereas the hydrosphere consists of the entire planet's water, except for moisture in the atmosphere. Bringing all of these systems together, coexisting in harmony is the marvel of our planet earth.
• Plant Communities: The plant community usually is the largest visible part of an ecosystem, and often both the community and the ecosystem are named according to the plants present, that is, by the virtue of their size or numbers, modify and control the environment with processes like photosynthesis helping sustain the life of the other systems. Plant communities range in scale from all soil microbes on an agricultural plot, all the trees in a given watershed or all phytoplankton in a particular harbour to all microbes, animals and plants in vast areas, such as the Amazon basin.
• The Human Body: As part of the biosphere, the human body is the one ecosystem we are experiencing first hand. With various types of cells flowing through our body, from RBC’s, WBC’s to neurons, they all function in unison for a seamless functioning of the human body. The human body is teeming with microbes—trillions of them. The commensal bacteria and fungi that live on and inside us outnumber our own cells 10-to-1. The viruses that teem inside those cells and ours may add another order of magnitude.

Thus, here we have had a brief discussion about the different ecosystems around us and how they function, helping us to have a better perspective about the world around us. Yet there is so much more we don't know, to know more fun facts about our planet or to study topics of biology with a new approach to learning that offers audio-visual content check out this YouTube channel

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