organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems. - Process where organic matter is acted upon by bacteria and other prokaryotes
- Decomposers play a significant role
in the recycling of the essential substances in nature -nutrients are constantly recycled within the biosphere.
-manifests how materials are obtained,
consumed and recycled in the environment - Is a group of living things within a certain area that are all the same species →Populations can be of the same size, but they may have different densities.
→When we consider the number
of individuals per unit area, we are referring to the density of the population. →Population sizes change when new members move into the ecosystem. They decrease when members move out of an ecosystem.
→The birth rate and death rates
can also affect a population’s size. - Environmental conditions that keep a population from over increasing in size and thus help balance ecosystems - Number of organisms of one species that an environment can support - A species in which the number of individuals falls low that extinction is possible - Species that have rapidly decreasing numbers of individuals - the disappearance of a species when the last of its members dies.