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Ecosystem Notes

A forest ecosystem is a community of living and non-living things that interact with each other and their environment. It includes plants, animals, fungi and microbes that live in the forest and decompose matter, as well as non-living things like water, soil, air and sunlight. Herbivores, carnivores and omnivores consume plants and each other, while decomposers like fungi and bacteria break down dead material. Together these living and non-living parts form an interconnected system where none could exist without the others.

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Ecosystem Notes

A forest ecosystem is a community of living and non-living things that interact with each other and their environment. It includes plants, animals, fungi and microbes that live in the forest and decompose matter, as well as non-living things like water, soil, air and sunlight. Herbivores, carnivores and omnivores consume plants and each other, while decomposers like fungi and bacteria break down dead material. Together these living and non-living parts form an interconnected system where none could exist without the others.

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The Forest Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a community of living and non-living


components in relationship with each other and
their environment. A forest is an ecosystem
because there are living organisms
interacting with the non-living environment.

The living components of a forest ecosystem


include all plants (producers), animals
(consumers), fungus and microscopic soil
organisms (decomposers).

There are three types of consumers: herbivores,


carnivores, and omnivores.

Decomposers include organisms such as fungi, bacteria, earthworms,


millipedes, beetles, ants and maggots.

The non-living components of the forest ecosystem include water, rocks,


sunlight, air, soil and chemicals.

All of these different components and factors combine to create an


interconnected, dynamic and rich forest environment. Without one of them, the
others could not exist.
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