Ecosystems. Examples of artificial ecosystems Examples of natural ecosystems

“Artificial respiration” - If there are extensive maxillofacial wounds, resuscitation is carried out in another way. Practical lesson No. 10. “Measures during artificial ventilation. Ascertainment of clinical death requires immediate and active treatment measures at the scene of the incident. Artificial respiration using the “mouth to mouth”, “mouth to nose” method.

“Ecosystem Concepts” - Meso-ecosystem: lake, grove, swamp, farm, field. For an ecosystem, there is the concept of self-regulation. Abiotic factors regulate the existence and vital activity of populations. Resilience is the ability of a community and ecosystem to withstand changes created by external influences. Microecosystems: anthill, rotting wood, aquarium.

“Ecosystem structure” - The spatial structure of most ecosystems is determined by the layering of vegetation. Ecosystem structure. Species structure of the ecosystem. The ratio of groups of species occupying certain ecological niches and performing certain functions in the community. Stream ecosystem. This is how an underground ecosystem with a single living organism works.

"Artificial Intelligence" - Formal performer. A fundamental restructuring of the familiar von Neumann architecture of modern machines will be required. The goal is to transform the computer from a formal performer into an intellectual performer. The subject of study of the science of “artificial intelligence” is human thinking.

“Artificial Earth satellites” - The speed of movement does not coincide with the earth’s. Satellites fly over the earth's surface. Message about Nicolaus Copernicus Display on a “live” model. Image of the change of day and night on the model. Observation satellites. Control questions. Day. Let's use the model to figure out why we see the Moon like this. Connect two circles with a length of bar.

“The first artificial satellite of the Earth” - The spherical shape made it possible to make full use of the internal volume with a smaller shell surface. And the bulk of the rocket before the launch was amazingly beautiful. This work was presented in grades 7-9 at the school on Cosmonautics Day and dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite.

“Biocenosis and its stability” - Centers for biotic stabilization. Carrying out certification. Nitrogen indicators. Properties of biogeocenosis. Morbidity. Poor quality water. Iron indicator. Indicators of water oxidation. Local biogeocenoses. Choosing the optimal location for a landfill for household waste disposal. Biosphere stability. Consequences of anthropogenic intervention. Biocenosis and its stability.

“Components of biogeocenosis” - Biocenosis of oak forest. Pond biocenosis. Environmental challenge. Characteristic features. Groups of organisms. Chain of eating. Terms. Product pyramid. Biogeocenoses. Necessary components of the ecosystem. Power network. Compare the network and the power circuit. Additional Information. Power circuit.

“Structure of biogeocenosis” - Biocenosis. Structure of biogeocenosis. Trophic structure of biocenosis. Biocenosis and biogeocenosis. Matryoshka ecosystems. Project assignment. Community. Producers. Homogeneous area. The concept of ecosystem and biogeocenosis. Consumers of II and more orders. Knowledge about natural communities. Consumers of the first order. Organic destroyers. Vernadsky. Decomposers. Biogeocenotic level.

“Connections in biogeocenosis” - Methods of obtaining food. Beneficial neutral relationships. Types of connections and dependencies in biogeocenosis. Beneficial relationships. Biotic connections. Predation. Trophic connections. Linden. Mutually beneficial relationships. Mutualism. Consider types of relationships. Competition. Eagle. Mutually harmful relationships. Tenancy. Method of nutrition. Symbiosis. Involving students in collective student-oriented activities.

“Preservation of the diversity of biogeocenoses” - These species have disappeared from the face of the Earth forever. Man is the king of nature. Human activity in agrocenoses. Preservation of the diversity of biogeocenoses. Transformation of landscapes. Feeling of anger. Tasmanian wolf. Forms of protection of BGC. A. Fet. The importance of biogeocenoses for humans. Human impact on nature.

“Characteristics of ecosystems” - The biosphere covers the entire surface of the Earth. Ecosystem concept. Ecosystem ranks. History of the term. Temporal boundaries of the ecosystem. An example of the stage of autotrophic succession - a forest grows in place of a fallow land. An example of heterotrophic succession. Ecosystems have many states. Biomes. Concepts. Spatial boundaries of the ecosystem. Scheme of system homeostasis according to Yu. Odum. Yu. Odum. Climate regime. The structure of an ecosystem (biogeocenosis) according to N. F. Reimers.

Urban ecosystems

One of the greatest tragedies of cities is that, despite being the highest achievement of human civilization, they become not only inconvenient, but also significantly dangerous to life, even to the lives of future generations. The environmental problems of cities have become an acute global problem that requires an urgent solution.

Features of the city's ecosystems: Disturbed ecological balance. All processes of regulating the flow of matter and energy are carried out by humans. Excessive concentration of population, transport and industrial enterprises in relatively small areas, formation of anthropogenic landscapes. Urban ecosystems are heterotrophic. The city emits toxic gases and dust into the atmosphere, and concentrates toxic waste in landfills, which enter aquatic ecosystems with spring water flows. High content of aerosols and gases in the atmosphere. Radically changed soil cover of urban areas.

Chemical pollution of the atmosphere This factor is one of the most dangerous to human life. The most common pollutants are sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, chlorine. In some cases, two or more relatively harmless substances released into the atmosphere can form toxic compounds under the influence of sunlight. Environmentalists count about 2,000 air pollutants.

Solutions: Improving means of transport; Planning activities; Measures to improve traffic flow management; Measures to rationalize transportation within the city.

Chemical pollution of water bodies Enterprises discharge petroleum products, nitrogen compounds, phenol and many other industrial wastes into water bodies. During oil production, water bodies are polluted with saline waters; oil and petroleum products also spill during transportation. In recent years, the danger to aquatic ecosystems from municipal wastewater has increased. These effluents contain an increased concentration of detergents, which are difficult for microorganisms to decompose.

Solutions: It seems advisable to use individual means of drinking water purification, which make it possible to obtain a sufficient amount of drinking water of significantly better quality than tap water.

Soil surface contamination by waste The city's soil is largely polluted by household and industrial waste and street garbage. City landfills for industrial and household waste occupy large areas. The garbage may contain toxic substances, such as mercury or other heavy metals and chemical compounds. Devices containing radioactive substances can also get into the trash. The soil surface can be contaminated with ash deposited from the smoke of coal-fired thermal power plants, enterprises producing cement, refractory bricks, etc.

Ways to solve: The most promising way to solve the waste problem is to recycle urban waste. The main directions in processing: organic mass is used to produce fertilizers; textile and paper waste is used to produce new paper; Scrap metal is sent to smelter.

Noise pollution The source of noise pollution can be an industrial enterprise or transport. Noise as an environmental factor leads to increased fatigue, decreased mental activity, neuroses, noise stress, impaired vision, etc. Constant noise can cause overstrain of the central nervous system. Noise has a particularly negative effect on the functional state of the cardiac system in children.

Solutions: regulate the intensity, spectral composition, duration and other parameters of noise; develop standards for permissible levels of external noise from various sources; rational planning of territory development; use the terrain as natural screens.

Radiation pollution Natural radioactive background affects every person, even those who do not come into contact with nuclear power plants or nuclear weapons. We all receive a certain dose of radiation during our lives, 73% of which comes from radiation from natural bodies and 14% from cosmic rays. Over the course of a lifetime (70 years), a person can, without much risk, accumulate radiation of 35 rem.

Ecosystems are one of the key concepts of ecology, which is a system that includes several components: a community of animals, plants and microorganisms, a characteristic habitat, a whole system of relationships through which the interchange of substances and energies occurs.

In science, there are several classifications of ecosystems. One of them divides all known ecosystems into two large classes: natural, created by nature, and artificial, those created by man. Let's look at each of these classes in more detail.

Natural ecosystems

As noted above, natural ecosystems were formed as a result of the action of natural forces. They are characterized by:

• Close relationship between organic and inorganic substances
• A complete, closed circle of the cycle of substances: starting from the appearance of organic matter and ending with its decay and decomposition into inorganic components.
• Resilience and self-healing ability.

All natural ecosystems are defined by the following characteristics:

• 1. Species structure: the number of each species of animal or plant is regulated by natural conditions.
  2. Spatial structure: all organisms are arranged in a strict horizontal or vertical hierarchy. For example, in a forest ecosystem, tiers are clearly distinguished; in an aquatic ecosystem, the distribution of organisms depends on the depth of the water.
  3. Biotic and abiotic substances. The organisms that make up the ecosystem are divided into inorganic (abiotic: light, air, soil, wind, humidity, pressure) and organic (biotic - animals, plants).
  4. In turn, the biotic component is divided into producers, consumers and destroyers. Producers include plants and bacteria, which use sunlight and energy to create organic matter from inorganic substances. Consumers are animals and carnivorous plants that feed on this organic matter. Destroyers (fungi, bacteria, some microorganisms) are the crown of the food chain, as they carry out the reverse process: organic matter is converted into inorganic substances.

The spatial boundaries of each natural ecosystem are very arbitrary. In science, it is customary to define these boundaries by the natural contours of the relief: for example, a swamp, a lake, mountains, rivers. But in the aggregate, all ecosystems that make up the bioshell of our planet are considered open, since they interact with the environment and with space. In the most general idea, the picture looks like this: living organisms receive energy, cosmic and terrestrial substances from the environment, and the output is sedimentary rocks and gases, which ultimately escape into space.

All components of the natural ecosystem are closely interconnected. The principles of this connection develop over years, sometimes centuries. But this is precisely why they become so stable, since these connections and climatic conditions determine the species of animals and plants that live in a given area. Any imbalance in a natural ecosystem can lead to its disappearance or extinction. Such a violation could be, for example, deforestation or extermination of a population of a particular animal species. In this case, the food chain is immediately disrupted, and the ecosystem begins to “fail.”

By the way, introducing additional elements into ecosystems can also disrupt it. For example, if a person begins to breed animals in the chosen ecosystem that were not there initially. A clear confirmation of this is the breeding of rabbits in Australia. At first this was beneficial, since in such a fertile environment and excellent climatic conditions for breeding, the rabbits began to reproduce with incredible speed. But in the end everything came to a crash. Countless hordes of rabbits devastated the pastures where sheep had previously grazed. The number of sheep began to decline. And a person gets much more food from one sheep than from 10 rabbits. This incident even became a saying: “The rabbits ate Australia.” It took incredible effort from scientists and a lot of expense before they managed to get rid of the rabbit population. It was not possible to completely exterminate their population in Australia, but their numbers decreased and no longer threatened the ecosystem.

Artificial ecosystems

Artificial ecosystems are communities of animals and plants living in conditions created for them by humans. They are also called noobiogeocenoses or socioecosystems. Examples: field, pasture, city, society, spaceship, zoo, garden, artificial pond, reservoir.

The simplest example of an artificial ecosystem is an aquarium. Here the habitat is limited by the walls of the aquarium, the flow of energy, light and nutrients is carried out by man, who also regulates the temperature and composition of the water. The number of inhabitants is also initially determined.

First feature: all artificial ecosystems are heterotrophic, i.e. consuming ready-made food. Let's take a city as an example, one of the largest artificial ecosystems. The influx of artificially created energy (gas pipeline, electricity, food) plays a huge role here. At the same time, such ecosystems are characterized by a large release of toxic substances. That is, those substances that later serve for the production of organic matter in a natural ecosystem often become unsuitable in artificial ones.

Another distinctive feature of artificial ecosystems is an open metabolic cycle. Let’s take agroecosystems as an example—the most important for humans. These include fields, gardens, vegetable gardens, pastures, farms and other agricultural lands on which people create conditions for the production of consumer products. People take out part of the food chain in such ecosystems (in the form of crops), and therefore the food chain becomes destroyed.

The third difference between artificial ecosystems and natural ones is their small number of species. Indeed, a person creates an ecosystem for the sake of breeding one (less often several) species of plants or animals. For example, in a wheat field, all pests and weeds are destroyed, and only wheat is cultivated. This makes it possible to get a better harvest. But at the same time, the destruction of organisms that are “unprofitable” for humans makes the ecosystem unstable.

Comparative characteristics of natural and artificial ecosystems

It is more convenient to present a comparison of natural ecosystems and socioecosystems in the form of a table:

“Aquarium ecosystem” - Elements of inanimate nature: Guppies Swordtails Catfish Gourami. Algae-producers Fish-consumers Snails, microbes-destroyers. Lesson topic: “Aquarium is a small artificial ecosystem.” How does a person care for the fields? What weeds do you know? Coil snail Ampularia Cancer Turtle. Destroyers. Lesson summary:

“Structure of ecosystems” - Created in 1964 the doctrine of forest biogeocenology. Lithosphere. Hydrosphere. A. Tansley. Topic: “Structure of ecosystems” Plan. Biocenosis. Biogeocenosis. Ecosystem structure. Biotope. II. Animals. Author of a number of textbooks and guides on dendrology, geobotany and works on Darwinism. I. Ecosystem, biogeocenosis, definition, properties.

“Ecosystem and biogeocenosis” - Organisms that specialize in obtaining strictly specific food are called monophages. Biogeocenoses are characterized by the following features: Polyphages are characterized by a wide range of nutrition, including primary, secondary and occasional food. Organisms that can feed on a variety of foods are called polyphages.

“Biocenosis biogeocenosis” - Biogeocenosis and biocenosis. Components of biogeocenosis. The name “biocenosis” was introduced into science by the German scientist Karl Mobius in 1877. Man-made biocenoses - aquarium, terrarium, greenhouse, greenhouse. Biocenosis “bios” - life, “cenos” - community. Inhabitants of a fallen tree trunk. Biocenosis indicators. Biocenosis of moss hummock, stump, meadow, pond, swamp, forest.

“Community ecosystem biogeocenosis” - Biogeocenosis? Take home: § 66. Decomposers? Let's summarize: 1st order consumers? Living organisms of the biocenosis are connected in a food chain. Biocenosis? Characteristics of the biocenosis: Source of energy? Sources of energy for the existence of biogeocenosis? Biogeocenosis. Ecosystems".

“Organisms in an ecosystem” - Fig. 1. Main components of the ecosystem. Ecosystems of the Earth. Pond biocenosis. The chain of consumption and the chain of decomposition. Thermal energy. Ecosystem. Biogeocenosis. Metabolic heat. Ecosystem structure. The fundamental principle is autotrophic biosynthesis. Superspecific level of organization of biosystems. Mechanical energy.

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