The Last Treasure of Humanity - Browsing Ecological Landscapes

Author: Dong Quan Chen Jiquan
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This book begins with biodiversity, exploring the relationships between organisms and between organisms and nature. The interactions and transformations among these different forms are of great interest to natural ecologists. Faced with the rich and diverse world of life, we will use the basic principles of ecology to explore the interactions between organisms and their environment with the readers. From an ecological perspective and from the whole Earth, the biosphere is an integrated system connected through various ecological links. The biosphere on Earth is the lifeboat that carries all life. Therefore, this book discusses the Earth's ecosystems and natural phenomena from the broad to the specific, from the distant to the near, and introduces 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. On the contrary, they are interconnected, with energy and material exchanges. Therefore, after introducing various ecosystems one by one, we will inevitably discuss complex ecosystems and ecological landscapes. Humans have 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 and examine the role of humans in ecosystems, measuring human dependence on and impact on ecosystems. 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 only made a small sample from the vast observations people have made of nature.