The detrimental effects of pollution, climate change, invasive species, habitat loss, and overharvesting present significant threats to biodiversity and ecosystems. Pollution affects air, land, and water, endangering plants, animals, and humans.
Consequenses: Pollution in the Pollution in the air,
land, and water can hurt or kill plants and animals
(including humans). Sometimes, a species can
become extinct from an area ifit is susceptible to
the pollutant. In extreme cases, an entire ecosystem
could be lost. land, and water can hurt or kill plants and animals (including humans). Sometimes, a species can
become extinct from an area ifit is susceptible to
the pollutant. In extreme cases, an entire ecosystem
could be lost.
Pollution is the harmful substancesPollution is the harmful substances we release into the air, land, and water. Pollutants
include poisonous gases and particles as well as
things such as noise and light. We release it into the air, land, and water. Pollutants include poisonous gases and particles as well as things such as noise and light.
Habitat loss
Consequence: habitat loss can reduce species richness. Some activities kill species directly. Other times habitats are divided into little fragments and population.
Humans and their activities can destroy natures habitats. As a result, large ecosystems disappear or are fragmented into smaller patches.
Climate change
Many species
cannot adapt to higher temperatures and changing
climate patterns. Plants and animals are also at
risk of extinction iftheir habitat changes due to
other consequences of climate change, such as
drought, a rise in sea levels, or a loss ofsea ice.
Climate change is a long term change in the pattern of Earth's weather.
Overharvesting
Consequences: Overharvesting
leads to loss of biodiversity and environmental
consequences. These consequences could be the
loss of a habitat from the over harvesting of trees
or the loss of a species offish as a commercial
source of food from overfishing.
Humans overusing natural resources and end up destroying them. Humans sometimes harvest more plants and animals than is sustainable.
Invasive species
Consequences: sometimes native animals compete other native animals for their resources and it could change the way ecosystem functions.
It happens when a specie get or has a new habitat. Those species are called non-native species.