Ecosystem Paper, environmental science homework help

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Select an ecosystem in your area (forest, lake, river, estuary, desert, grassland within 50 miles of your house.). This ecosystem must have a specific name.

Write a 850- to 900-word paper explaining the following:

NOTE: I live in Houston, Texas

  1. Introduction - Tell the reader what the paper will cover.
  2. Describe the structure of your ecosystem including important abiotic features and dominant plant and animal species.
  3. Explain some functions/processes of your ecosystem including one nutrient cycle and one food chain.
  4. Explain how people affect your ecosystem. For example, how your neighbors faithful application of fertilizer to beautify his/her lawn affects your nutrient cycle.
  5. Explain how urban areas with lots of pavement, impervious surfaces and compacted soils affect at least one aspect of the hydrologic cycle in your ecosystem
  6. Give two examples of species interactions (predation, competition, mutualism, etc.) that occur in your ecosystem
  7. Identify an invasive species in your ecosystem. Explain its effects on the ecosystem and efforts to control or eradicate it.
  8. Conclusion - Summarize the content of your paper

Use an Introduction, Section Headings (APA Level 1 & 2) to identify each of your numbered items, and a Conclusion in your paper.

Include three peer reviewd references.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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Explanation & Answer

Attached.

Forest Ecosystem
I.

Introduction

II.

Describing the structure of the ecosystem including important abiotic features and
dominant plant and animal species

III.

Functions/processes of the ecosystem including one nutrient cycle and one food chain

IV.

Explaining how people affect the ecosystem

V.

Explaining how urban areas with lots of pavement, impervious surfaces and
compacted soils affect at least one aspect of the hydrologic cycle in the ecosystem

VI.

Evaluating species interactions (predation and competition) that occur in the
ecosystem

VII.

Identify an invasive species in the ecosystem, its effects on the ecosystem and efforts
to control or eradicate it

VIII.

Conclusion


Running Head: FOREST ECOSYSTEM

1

Forest Ecosystem
Institution Affiliation
Date:

FOREST ECOSYSTEM

2

The combined interaction of living organisms and nonliving organisms in their
environment forms up an ecosystem. The ecosystem can be the forest, a lake, the desert or
grassland provided the environment comprises of the nonliving and living organisms. The
network of connections formed through the interactions of all the organisms as well as the
existence of the abiotic features such as sunlight and temperatures as well as the wind and
precipitation all define an ec...


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