The Last Treasure of Humanity -- Browsing Ecological Landscapes

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Features: This book begins with biodiversity, exploring the relationships between organisms and their connection with nature. The interactions and transformations among these diverse forms are of great interest to natural ecologists. Faced with the rich and varied world of life, we will use the fundamental principles of ecology to explore the interactions between organisms and their environment with the readers. From an ecological perspective and looking at the entire planet, the biosphere is an integrated system connected through various ecological links. The biosphere on Earth is the lifeboat carrying all forms of life. Therefore, this book discusses the Earth's ecosystems and natural phenomena in a broad-to-narrow, far-to-near manner, introducing forests, grasslands, deserts, rivers, ponds and lakes, wetlands, coastal areas, and oceans in order of major ecosystem types. Very few ecosystems on Earth are isolated or closed. Instead, they are interconnected, with energy and material exchanges occurring between them. As a result, after introducing various ecosystems, we will inevitably discuss composite ecosystems and ecological landscapes. Humans have already greatly altered and continue to alter the face of the Earth, exerting significant, even irreversible impacts on nature on a global scale. Therefore, at the end of this book, let us reflect on ourselves, examine our place in ecosystems, and measure our dependence on and influence on these systems. Like many other books that seek to understand and describe the natural world, the chapters in this book may be arbitrary, and the observations may be scattered. We have merely taken a small sample from the vast observations people have made of nature.