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    An ecosystem is a community of living and non-living things that interact. Ecosystem development, also called ecological succession, is the orderly process by which a community establishes and evolves. Primary succession occurs in lifeless areas, like after lava flows, while secondary succession recolonizes disturbed areas with soil. Primary succession takes longer, up to 1000 years, while secondary succession takes 50-200 years. Invasive species, like mesquite introduced to India, can harm environments and cause economic damage by becoming overpopulated.

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    An ecosystem is a community of living and non-living things that interact. Ecosystem development, also called ecological succession, is the orderly process by which a community establishes and evolves. Primary succession occurs in lifeless areas, like after lava flows, while secondary succession recolonizes disturbed areas with soil. Primary succession takes longer, up to 1000 years, while secondary succession takes 50-200 years. Invasive species, like mesquite introduced to India, can harm environments and cause economic damage by becoming overpopulated.

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    An ecosystem is a community of living and non-living things that interact. Ecosystem development, also called ecological succession, is the orderly process by which a community establishes and evolves. Primary succession occurs in lifeless areas, like after lava flows, while secondary succession recolonizes disturbed areas with soil. Primary succession takes longer, up to 1000 years, while secondary succession takes 50-200 years. Invasive species, like mesquite introduced to India, can harm environments and cause economic damage by becoming overpopulated.

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    Stratagies For Ecosystem Development

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    An ecosystem is a community of living and non-living things that interact. Ecosystem development, also called ecological succession, is the orderly process by which a community establishes and evolves. Primary succession occurs in lifeless areas, like after lava flows, while secondary succession recolonizes disturbed areas with soil. Primary succession takes longer, up to 1000 years, while secondary succession takes 50-200 years. Invasive species, like mesquite introduced to India, can harm environments and cause economic damage by becoming overpopulated.

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    STRATEGIES FOR

    ECOSYSTEM
    DEVELOPMENT

    M.RAGHAV SANTHOSH
    [SANDY]
    WHAT IS ECOSYTEM?
    An Ecosystem is a group or community composed of
    both living and non living things and their interaction
    with each other.
    Ecosystem has two components namely:
    BIOTIC – Living things
    ABIOTIC- Non living things
    “ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT”
    CAN ALSO BE TERMED AS
    “ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION”
    DEFINATION FOR SUCCESSION
    It is an orderly process of community development that is
    reasonably directional and, therefore, predictable.
    It results from modification of the physical environment by
    the community; that is, succession is community controlled
    even though the physical environment determines the
    pattern, the rate of change, and often sets limits as to how
    far development can go.
    It culminates in a stabilized ecosystem in which maximum
    biomass (or high information content) and symbiotic function
    between organisms are maintained per unit of available
    energy flow.
    PRIMARY SUCCESSION
    • Primary succession is ecological succession that
    begins in essentially lifeless areas, such as regions
    in which there is no soil or where the soil is
    incapable of sustaining life (because of recent lava
    flows, newly formed sand dunes, or rocks left from
    a retreating glacier).
    EXAMPLE
    Plants growing on the
    area which was affected
    by the flow of lava is an
    example of primary
    succession.
    SECONDARY SUCCESSION
    secondary succession, type of ecological
    succession (the evolution of a biological
    community's ecological structure) in which plants
    and animals recolonize a habitat after a major
    disturbance—such as a devastating flood, wildfire,
    landslide, lava flow, or human activity (e.g., farming
    or road or building construction.
    EXAMPLE
    A destroyed forest
    due to wild fire is an
    example of secondary
    succession.
    In a few years there
    will be vegetation
    regrowing in this
    area.
    DIFFERENCE B/W PRIMARY AND
    SECONDORY SUCCESSION
    Primary Succession Secondary succession
    It is a type of succession that It is the type of succession which
    starts from barren or uninhabited occurs in a habitat where life
    land. already existed.
    Takes 1000 years which ,may be It takes place 50 to 200 years.
    more.
    Humus is absent Humus is present due to the
    present of previous inhabitant
    INVASIVE SPECIES
    • An invasive species is an introduced organism that
    becomes overpopulated and harms its new
    environment.
    • Although most introduced species are neutral or
    beneficial with respect to other species, invasive
    species adversely affect habitats and bioregions,
    causing ecological, environmental, and/or
    economic damage.
    MESQUITE
    Mesquite is a plant species introduced in India by
    the British in order to the requirement of fuelwood .
    Prosopis julifora is the scientific name for mesquite.
    சீமைக்கருவேமை is the Tamil name for this species.
    But now this invasive species has become a threat
    to our country.
    It was reported that this species has declined the
    ground water level to the core.
    THE END
    நன்றி
    ைீ ண்டும்
    சந்திப்வ ோம்

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