3, 4 As habitats experience different temperatures, precipitation patterns, and other changes, the organisms that make up ecosystems feel the effects. Climate controls how plants grow, how animals behave, which organisms thrive, and how they all interact with the physical environment. These connections between ecosystems also make them dependent on one another, and not simply dependent on the organisms within them.Ĭlimate change affects ecosystems in many ways. They can also overlap with one another or be part of larger ecosystems. Ecosystems can be big, like the one that surrounds Yellowstone National Park, 2 or as small as a single fallen tree. 1 People depend on ecosystems for many benefits, such as food, water, clean air, building materials, and recreation.
Monitoring fish populations and setting catch limits are ways people are already managing ecosystems.Įcosystems are communities of living things, including plants, animals, and microorganisms, that interact with each other and the physical world.
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