Are forests essential for maintaining an ecological balance and how energy is transferred through an ecosystem from organism to organism?
Forest helps in cleaning the environment by absorbing toxic gases like carbon. They help to prevent soil erosion and uphold the fertility of the soil. They help to establish oxygen and carbon balance in nature, and hence, the forest is essential for maintaining an ecological balance. Plants provide nutrients to all living organisms in either a direct or indirect manner. They balance the ecosystem by the release of oxygen and absorbing carbon dioxide and improve the air quality. They provide shelter to organisms. Plants can prevent soil erosion. Since forests contain a large number of plants and trees, they help in maintaining the balance between oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Forests have an enormously important role to play in the global ecosystem. Forests produce approximately 28% of the Earth's oxygen, they also serve as homes for millions of people, and billions depend on forests in some way. Energy is transferred between organisms in food webs from producers to consumers. The energy is used by organisms to carry out complex tasks. The vast majority of energy that exists in food webs originates from the sun and is converted (transformed) into chemical energy by the process of photosynthesis in plants. The transfer of energy between organisms is a food chain. Transfer of food energy from the producers through a series of organisms with repeated eating and being eaten is known as food chain. The first trophic level of the food chain has the most energy.Primary producers use energy from the sun to produce their own food in the form of glucose, and then primary producers are eaten by primary consumers that are in turn eaten by secondary consumers, and so on, so that energy flows from one trophic level, or level of the food chain, to the next.
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