SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
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Emptying an aquarium containing non-native species into a local waterway
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Cutting down a small cedar tree to make holiday decorations
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Cleaning the windshield of a car with an alcohol-based glass cleaner
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Mowing the lawn in a city park
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: Emptying an aquarium containing non-native species into a local waterway. Emptying an aquarium containing non-native species into a local waterway will most likely to cause the greatest disruption to an ecosystem.
Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of ecological disturbances include fires, landslides, flooding, windstorms and insect and pest outbreaks. Disturbances often come in the form of short-term or temporary changes to the landscape but can have very significant ecosystem impacts.
Detailed explanation-3: -They include factors such as light, radiation, temperature, water, chemicals, gases, wind and soil. In some environments, such as marine environments, pressure and sound can be important abiotic components.
Detailed explanation-4: -Important pressures contributing to current and future ecological collapse include habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, overgrazing, overexploitation of ecosystems by humans, human industrial growth and overpopulation, climate change, ocean acidification, pollution, and invasive species.
Detailed explanation-5: -Pollution. Pollution is one of the main causes of ecosystem destruction. Climate Change. Climate change continues to play a significant role in the destruction of the ecosystem. Land Clearing. Resource Exploitation. Population Decline. 13-Mar-2018