Depauperate ecosystem
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Adepauperate ecosystemis anecosystemwhich is lacking in numbers or variety of species, often because it lacks enough stored chemical elements and resources required for life. Thus, depauperateecosystemsoften cannot support rapid growth of flora and fauna, highbiomassdensity, and highbiological diversity.[1]Anurchin barrenis an example of a depauperate ecosystem.
As it is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment, when such ecosystem is depauperate, it means that the area is poor in ecological resources, both in quantity and diversity. An example of a depauperate environment isMuirfield Seamount.
References
[edit]- ^"Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet", Daniel B. Botkin, Edward A. Keller, Fifth Edition, p. 186,ISBN978-0-470-91781-7
Further reading
[edit]- Schluter, Dolph.The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation.Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. Print.
- Strier, Karen B.Primate Behavioral Ecology.Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000. Print.
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