Of Biomes and Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a community of organism and their non-living components in the environment interacting as a system, which is from minerals in the soil to formation of topography to weather patterns. The living and non-living components are linked together through energy flow and nutrient cycle. In an ecosystem, energy enters the system through photosynthesis where it’s incorporated into the plant tissue. Animals then feed on the plants and themselves and take the role of moving matter and energy through the system. Internal and external factors control an ecosystem. The external factor which includes climate and parental material form the soil and the topography and manage the entire structure of the ecosystem. The ecosystem controls the internal factors, and they include decomposition, types of species present, root competition, and shading.
Biomes, on the other hand, is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristic for the environment they exist. Biomes are a biological community that is formed due to a shared physical climate, and thus likely to be found to cover a range of continent. Biomes consist of a variety of habitat. Temperature, amount and precipitation, and available organisms characterize the biomes, and thus there aquatic, desert, tundra, forests, and grasslands biomes. Aquatic biomes occupy most of the biosphere. Terrestrial biomes are determined by the climate which identifies the flora of the biome.
A human being is in the interactive cycle of an ecological relationship; this idea has altered perception of myself. First, because I realized that human beings are not the leading players of the world, but they are just a subsystem of a cycle that is heavily influenced by other factors. Second, human survival would be hard if an ecological relationship is ruined.