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Aerial Ecosystem

The document discusses aerial ecosystems, highlighting their transitional nature and dependence on terrestrial ecosystems for nutrients and reproduction. It details the components of these ecosystems, including physical, chemical, and biological factors, and emphasizes the importance of air as a medium for various organisms. Additionally, it addresses air pollution causes, effects, and potential solutions to mitigate its impact on health and the environment.
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Aerial Ecosystem

The document discusses aerial ecosystems, highlighting their transitional nature and dependence on terrestrial ecosystems for nutrients and reproduction. It details the components of these ecosystems, including physical, chemical, and biological factors, and emphasizes the importance of air as a medium for various organisms. Additionally, it addresses air pollution causes, effects, and potential solutions to mitigate its impact on health and the environment.
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Air ecosystems are considered transitional ecosystems since the individuals that inhabit them
They cannot be permanently integrated into it. They have to descend to the ground to search.
nutrients, rest, procreate, etc. For this reason, some specialists integrate them into the
terrestrial ecosystems.
Like all ecosystems, it is made up of several parts, only that living organisms depend on the
nutrients that are in the soil, while aerial ecosystems are not self-sufficient, and there is also no
recycling of the elements used in the energy generation processes, but as they inhabit there
birds, spores, insects, it is said that the aerial ecosystem acts as a system, but unlike the
aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, the energy that circulates in the air systems is not recycled and is not
self-sufficient.
Components of the aerial ecosystem
As we mentioned earlier, an aerial ecosystem is composed of both physical factors
as chemical and biological. More specifically, the components of the aerial ecosystem are:
Physical factors: mainly, they are the parameters that affect the ecosystem, such as the
movement of air, humidity, pressure, temperature, noise, vibrations, and ionizing radiation.
Chemical factors: they are all those components that can be found in the air environment,
mainly gases, such as neon, helium, methane, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, water vapor
water, ozone, and aerosols.

Biological factors: they are those living organisms such as plants, animals, and microorganisms that.
they are found in this medium, like birds, insects, and even some mammals.

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Animals of the aerial ecosystem
The animals of the aerial ecosystem are part of its biological components. There is a large
diversity and number of species that are part of these ecosystems:
Insects: they can have very varied structures and wings. Ladybugs, beetles, bees, wasps,
ants, flies, mosquitoes, butterflies and moths. For example, a bee flying to land on a flower
to feed.
Examples: Insects that have wings and use the air medium to move and search for food, such as the
case of bees that move from flower to flower in search of nectar, or that can communicate with each other
through their movements in the air. However, not only insects that have wings can be part of
of the aerial ecosystem. There are insects and arachnids that move through threads and air currents.
Birds: it is their wings that have allowed them to conquer this element. They also have other
adaptations such as their hollow bones or feathers that offer them protection and at the same time are very
light.
Some examples of birds are: pigeons, canaries, swallows, seagulls, eagles, hawks, toucans, pelicans.
flamingos and parrots.
Mammals: bats or chiropterans are the only mammals that can fly and therefore,
they are part of aerial ecosystems, although there are also some animals that, although they cannot fly,
they plan, through the use of a skin similar to wings as is the case with squirrels.
Bats that are part of the aerial ecosystem, feeding on some insects.
generally nocturnal, as is the case with moths, they move in this medium and communicate through
of sound waves that are transmitted through the air.

Example of the aerial ecosystem plants, such as mosses, fungi, and orchids that utilize the
air medium, and they take advantage of air currents so that their seeds can be dispersed and reach
new territories. In fact, some seeds even have adaptations like helical wings to
to be able to reach and surpass greater distances.

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Importance
It should be noted that most organisms and species use air as a medium of
transport, to relate or search for food, but they do not spend their entire life in this medium, but rather that
they combine with others like the terrestrial or the aquatic. This occurs, for example, in the case of plants that
they use the wind to disperse and transport their seeds in order to reproduce or the birds that soar the skies
to move around, even though they sleep and spend part of their lives in the nests located in the trees. A
The advantage of this medium is that it has few predators, has no obstacles for movement, and is located at...
the dams easily. THANKS TO THE WIND THE FIRST VEGETAL COLONIZATION OF THE EARTH WAS CARRIED TO
CABO THROUGH THE MOSS, FOR THEY USED THE WIND AS TRANSPORT, IN WHICH STILL TODAY, THE
MUSGOS AND THEIR MORE EVOLVED DESCENDANTS RELEASE THEIR SEEDS AND SPORES.
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Main causes of air pollution.


.
The burning of fossil fuels.

The sulfur dioxide emitted from the combustion of fossil fuels such as coal or oil is one of
the main causes of air pollution.
The smoke emitted by the engines of trucks, cars, trains, planes, and others, causes
immensely large amounts.
The incomplete combustion (burning) of fossil fuels generates an incomplete combustion of gases.
such as carbon monoxide or nitrogen oxide, both gases, pollutants, harmful to health, to
environment and climate change stakeholders.
These gases are caused by humans in large quantities.

2. Agricultural and livestock activities.

Food production and animal husbandry is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.Greenhouse Gases
Greenhouse)
They are in the order of 18%.
To have the food you consume, a significant amount of oil and natural gas was used beforehand.
manufacturing of fertilizers, agrochemicals, transportation of inputs and goods, and others.

For environmentalists and not necessarily, the proposal to reduce meat consumption takes on
more importance, followers and feelings not only for the benefits to the environment, the economy
domestic and for health.

3. Industries and related sectors.

Oil, gas, and coal are the main sources of energy generation that industries use.
The main greenhouse gas released is carbon monoxide, which, when in contact with air, transforms into the
The main responsible for global warming, carbon dioxide (CO2), scientifically proven
until exhaustion, its negative role since humanity began to unleash it without comparison (since the
industrial revolution).
Around 21% of greenhouse gas emissions are released into the atmosphere by the sector and sub-sector.

Carbon dioxide must be drastically reduced to achieve the mentioned objective if it is still
we want to have some hope.
It is hard to believe that these ambitious goals will be achieved because knowing that humanity prioritizes its
economy about environmental preservation, in the sense that large highly polluting nations such as
China, USA, the European Union or India

4. Mining operations.
The use of the dirtiest pollutant, coal, is a source of air pollution.
In order for trucks, dump trucks, drilling equipment, and others to work, fuels and
During the same extraction process, significant amounts of dust and chemicals are released into the environment.
causing massive pollution.
These are a threat to the health of miners and the surrounding population, killing and injuring thousands.
people with heart and respiratory diseases, primarily.
In addition, mining is synonymous with the destruction of thousands of hectares of forests and jungles that, upon being
Burned areas release more methane into the atmosphere complicating the issue of air pollution.

Effects of air pollution.


.
Air pollution should be regarded as a serious problem for global health due to the
diseases and deaths caused each year.

1. Respiratory and cardiac problems.


Breathing permanently pure air seriously damages the health of the circulatory and pulmonary system.
until several types of cancer.
Pneumonia and asthma are much more common in children.
And although it is not an illness, it takes away the quality of life, the ability to enjoy a blue sky and to see beyond the
horizon, even though many of us live in concrete jungles.
2. Global warming.
It is another direct effect because as temperatures rise due to that 'trap' effect that prevents
the heat and toxins are released into the upper atmosphere, cities become "heat islands," suffocating and
suffocating the inhabitants.
If we bring the problem to the potential effects on glacier melting and evaporation of water bodies
The sea level will rise, causing massive migrations.

3. Acid Rain.
Air pollution contains hazardous substances such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon dioxide
sulfur (SO2), product of the combustion of fuels in factories, vehicles, and others.

The rain that falls with acidic drops damages the trees by stripping them of their leaves and even killing them.
When it rains, the water droplets mix with these substances and form acid rains that cause damage.
In human health, they damage buildings and monuments and clearly affect vegetation and animals.

4. Eutrophication, its effect on fauna and flora, and others.

Eutrophication is the condition in which large amounts of nitrogen present in the environment reach
bodies of water such as lakes, ponds, lagoons, ocean surfaces, and other bodies of water
favoring the development of green algae excessively.
Air pollution seriously affects wild animals because they have to migrate to other areas.
the habitats where the damage from air chemical agents is lower, both for them and for the
ecosystem that provides them shelter and food.

SOLUTION AND BENEFITS


The basic and logical idea should focus on reducing the consumption of fossil fuels and burning.
forests and jungles.
The lower the combustion of these, the lower the concentration of pollutants in the air we breathe.

Use of mass public transport: Fewer combustion engines means less exhaust smoke than
breathe.
Let's support the use of this mode of transportation as we demand better, cleaner, optimal, and safe units.

Conserving energy: Energy, light, electricity, or however you want to call it, is generated by burning fuels and
carbon.
The lower the energy demand, the smaller the amount of pollutants released into the atmosphere.

Let's practice Reduction, Reuse, and Recycling:


Let's not throw away things we don't use without first thinking about giving them a new use.

The idea is to reduce and recycle all goods that help to decrease the amount of energy that would be needed.
to elaborate on it and therefore reduce air pollution.

Change your habits and adopt a new lifestyle:


Let's leave behind environmentally and economically incorrect practices and adopt measures that are
obvious until turning them into a lifestyle.
There are many things you can do, from turning off the lights you don't use to printing on both sides of
a sheet of paper.
Unity makes strength and makes a difference.

To begin with, this has a negative impact since if we go for the part
we did not find the community's economic situation, and if we find it, it would be through
an inadequate strategy, because the entity that manages this economy is the
community advice, most of them do not have the capacity to manage or
manage these resources where you prefer to contribute them to your closest people
that the people who need that benefit, like for example the Mercal that
it started working, providing its help both economically and socially, but
here it benefited or gave more priority to the people closest to the individual
that managed that function, because the third or fourth person who did not have that
direct communication did not manage to find what I was looking for the most where I currently already
I let it work, and this is where the social aspect is raised because if we go to a module
inside the neighborhood or CDI, we couldn't find the medication we need, where the
the people who manage these assets are the most benefited and do not reach
to provide to the people who really need it, however they do not have like a
administration or monitoring control to carry out these actions of the
development, because if we had an insurance control what we are experiencing today would not
was happening.
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On one hand, we can observe it since there are volunteer organizations.


of different student groups or clubs that currently exist, where
they organize independently of political, social, or economic support for
an improvement to society, and this is where they lend their supportive hand to the part
affected sector or community that needs your help, because if we
we focus on the political part these entities create and propose a plan of
development for the entity but by third or fourth parties that
the management of these assets is not fully completed or developed
the community assistance plan, and this is where they participate voluntarily
the existing organizations where they provide service or help with the few
resources that can be raised from their own organization.

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