ECOLOGY
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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Question
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Increase in biodiversity
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Decrease in biodiversity
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Extinction of a population from the ecosystem
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Removal of many populations of organisms
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. Explanation:Human activities and natural disasters such as deforestation, tornadoes, floods, pollution, etc. The biodiversity of an ecosystem contributes to the sustainability of that ecosystem.
Detailed explanation-2: -Biodiversity underpins the provision of food, fibre and water; it mitigates and provides resilience to climate change; it supports human health, and provides jobs in agriculture, fisheries, forestry and many other sectors.
Detailed explanation-3: -For an ecosystem to be sustainable, energy must be available for the plants, animals, and other organisms that exist in these systems. Energy can take the form of sunlight for plants or food sources for organisms.
Detailed explanation-4: -If a lake has many different types of fish and other marine life like turtles and frogs and many different types of plants and insects, then there is a great biodiversity of genes and species all contributing to the sustainability of the ecosystem of the lake.
Detailed explanation-5: -What factor contributes most to the sustainability of a habitat? climate.