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Sustainability and Biodiversity
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Ecosystems are interactions between plants, animals, and microorganisms and their environment working together.
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What is Sustainability?
“In ecology (How organisms interact) word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time”
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Our Definition Sustainability is being able to keep an ecosystem “healthy” or “balanced” for a long period of time.
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What does “healthy” and “balanced” mean?
In your notebook Give an examples of what you think “healthy ecosystem” and “balanced ecosystem” means Think about Biotic and Abiotic factors
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Is Healthy and Balanced important
Ecosystems will fail if they do not remain in balance. No community can carry more organisms than its food, water, and shelter can accommodate.
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Each organism has its own niche, or role, to play
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Do you think that these 3 birds will compete with each other for food and space?
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