Importance of Ecology
Hello everyone,
Hope you all are doing good?? Todays a great day to learn and appreciate something of the ecosystem we live in. The science of studying the ecosystem we live in is referred to as ecology. One will ask why and how science is involved in the society we live in everyday, must I just say that, first of all science is apart of our everyday live in the generation and in everything we do. Ecology helps us study and understand the relationship between humans and the environment we live in and also how living organisms have affected the environment they live in.
Ecology highlights the movement of energy through living organisms in their environment and the correlation between the species in the environment and most importantly, it highlights the patterns of the different variety of biological life in the ecosystem and their effects to the ecosystem. The ecosystem is made up of communities which consists of living and non-living organisms. The ecosystem sustain life and support functions that provide valuable services to the organisms living in them.
Ecosystems contain resources that living organisms such as humans and other living organisms depend on to survive. Ecology has enabled us to study and understand these resources very well to put them to better use to help us. For example, lets consider petroleum which is one of the earths resources which thanks to ecology we have discovered and ever since have refined it and turn it into one of the most used energy source. Petroleum is now used to power vehicles, produce electricity fuel jets and many other machines and service we often use.
Disadvantage of ecology.
Ecology as a study have also affected the environment negatively. Some of the activities undergone by humans in the name of studying the environment and the ecosystem have had some intense impact on the environment. For example, thanks to ecology, humans have discovered resources that are considered treasures in today’s world ,some of those resources are gold, diamond, bauxite and many others. Now to get these resources some practises have to be performed like digging, drilling deep into the ground to find these resources. Once humans dig in search of these resources, they displace the nutrients in the soil of that particular piece of land and that affects the growth of plants and other food crops in that area.
Also, ecology have affected our ecosystem by forcing species to relocated from their existing ecosystems and also endangering some species. Some practices like deforestation turn to cause species to relocate from their existing environments and sometimes ends up endangering other species by their actions.
Benefits of ecology.
Ecology have also helped us enrich the resources in our environment to be satisfy us ensure our wellbeing. As ecology provides knowledge on the relationship between the living organisms and nature, it also shows us how to sustain the environment and maintain the resources available in it to promote life.
In conclusion, ecology is a branch of biological science which enlighten us humans about the relationship between living organisms and their environment, the resource in the environment and the ecosystem and how to make use of those resource to enrich our lives and protect the environment. So basically, ecology is that branch of science that helps grow our environment and the world that we live in. Thank you for reading through🙏.
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