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This document discusses different types of ecosystems and provides examples. It begins by explaining that abiotic factors lead to the formation of different ecosystems. Ecosystems are then classified as either natural or artificial. Natural ecosystems include terrestrial ecosystems like grasslands, forests, and deserts, as well as aquatic ecosystems like freshwater and marine ecosystems. As an example, the document focuses on mangrove ecosystems, specifically the Coringa mangrove ecosystem in India. It outlines the biotic components like producers, consumers, and decomposers as well as abiotic components like water, air, temperature and soil that make up this ecosystem.

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Types of Ecosystem PDF

This document discusses different types of ecosystems and provides examples. It begins by explaining that abiotic factors lead to the formation of different ecosystems. Ecosystems are then classified as either natural or artificial. Natural ecosystems include terrestrial ecosystems like grasslands, forests, and deserts, as well as aquatic ecosystems like freshwater and marine ecosystems. As an example, the document focuses on mangrove ecosystems, specifically the Coringa mangrove ecosystem in India. It outlines the biotic components like producers, consumers, and decomposers as well as abiotic components like water, air, temperature and soil that make up this ecosystem.

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These factors and their interaction between

each other and with biotic components have


Types of Ecosystem resulted in formation of different types of
Due to the Abiotic factors, different ecosystems as explained below.
ecosystems develop in different ways.
On the basis of human interference
and its effect ecosystem has been classified
as follows:
Flow chart of classification of ecosystem
Ecosystem

Natural Artifical
ecosystem ecosystem

Terrestrial Aquatic
ecosystem ecosystem

Grassland Forest Desert Fresh water Marine


ecosystem ecosystem ecosystem ecosystem ecosystem

Mangrove ecosystem - Coringa endangered species.


Mangroves are one of the most Coringa mangrove is situated south
productive ecosystems on earth, deriving of Kakinada Bay and is about 150 km south
nourishment from terrestrial fresh water of Visakhapatnam. Coringa is named after
and tidal salt waters. Mangrooves are the the river Corangi. Coringa mangroves
forest that grow in back waters low depth receive fresh waterfrom Coringa and
areas of sea shore. Gaderu rivers,
Mangroves serve as tributories of Gautami
important feeding, Godavari river and salt
nursery and breeding waters from Kakinada
grounds for a variety bay. Numerous creeks
and canals travel in this
of commercially
ecosystem. Let us
important organisms
observe biotic and
and also serve as
abiotic components of
protected areas for
Fig-4 View of mangrove in Coringa coringa ecosystem.

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Biotic components
Producers - mangrove, spirogyra, euglena,
oscilatoria, blue green algae, ulothrix, etc.
Consumers - shrimp, crab, hydra,
protozoans, mussel, snails, turtle, daphnia,
brittle Word, tube Worm, etc.
Decomposers - Detritus feeding bacteria,
etc.
Abiotic components - Salt and fresh water,
Air, temperature, soil, etc. Fig-5 Food web in Coringa Ecosystem

Do you know? grassland or a forest, a small tract in a for-


It is said that there are more micro est or a single log, an edge of a pond, a vil-
lage, an aquarium or a manned spaceship
organisms in the sea than there are stars
can all be regarded as ecosystem. An eco-
in the universe. The worlds oceans host
system can thus be defined as a functional
32 of the 34 known phyla on earth and
unit of nature, where living organisms in-
ocean between 5,00,000 and 10 million
teract among themselves and also with the
marine species. Species diversity is as
surrounding physical environment.
high as 1000 per square metre in the
Indo-Pacific Ocean and new oceanic Collect Brochure of CoP-11,
species are continuously being Biodiversity Conference, Hyderabad, 1-19,
discovered. Oct, 2012. Discuss about ecosystems in
your class.
We have studied that a living com-
munity cannot live in isolation. It lives in The Desert Ecosystem
an environment which supplies its material The desert occupy about 17% of the
and energy requirements and provides other land and occur in the regions with an
living conditions. The living community, average rainfall of less than 23mm per year.
together with the physical environment Due to extremes of temperature, the
forms an interacting system called the Eco- species composition of desert ecosystem
system. An ecosystem can be natural or ar- much varied and typical. The various
tificial, temporary or permanent. A large components of a desert ecosystem.

108 Different Ecosystems

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