Overgrazing
Field trip
Introduction
Biodiversity：Biological diversity, simply means the diversity, or variety of plants and animals and other living things in a particular area or region. Biodiversity also means the number, or abundance of different species living within a particular region. In practice, "biodiversity" suggests sustaining the diversity of species in each ecosystem as we plan human activities that affect the use of the land and natural resources. 1. Species diversity 2. Ecosystem diversity Biodiversity 3. Genetic diversity
Study aim:
Investigate the natural and artificial ecosystems to understand the relationship between the components (e.g plants, animals, microorganisms, soil, light, and humidity) in each ecosystem, the physical factors and the differences between these two ecosystems.
Location:
1. Natural ecosystem-Bukit Gasing: The Bukit Gasing Forest Park straddles the border of Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The area is over 100 hectares. It is the complex of a community and its environment functioning as an ecological unit in nature, and both living and non-living things that interact with each other. The area is recognized destination for bird watching with over 250 species. There is a great deal of recycling of organic matter in a natural ecosystem so it is stable.
2. Artificial ecosystem-Sunway College: Bandar Sunway, 46150 Petaling Jaya, Selangor in Malaysia. It is man-made and imitated naturally occurring ones. The amount of species is quite limited. It requires large inputs of organic matter in the form of food, very little of the organic matter that enters this ecosystem is recycled so it is unstable.
Species in Bukit Gasing
Species in Sunway College
*Location to carry out the fieldwork:
Introduction
Biodiversity：Biological diversity, simply means the diversity, or variety of plants and animals and other living things in a particular area or region. Biodiversity also means the number, or abundance of different species living within a particular region. In practice, "biodiversity" suggests sustaining the diversity of species in each ecosystem as we plan human activities that affect the use of the land and natural resources. 1. Species diversity 2. Ecosystem diversity Biodiversity 3. Genetic diversity
Study aim:
Investigate the natural and artificial ecosystems to understand the relationship between the components (e.g plants, animals, microorganisms, soil, light, and humidity) in each ecosystem, the physical factors and the differences between these two ecosystems.
Location:
1. Natural ecosystem-Bukit Gasing: The Bukit Gasing Forest Park straddles the border of Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The area is over 100 hectares. It is the complex of a community and its environment functioning as an ecological unit in nature, and both living and non-living things that interact with each other. The area is recognized destination for bird watching with over 250 species. There is a great deal of recycling of organic matter in a natural ecosystem so it is stable.
2. Artificial ecosystem-Sunway College: Bandar Sunway, 46150 Petaling Jaya, Selangor in Malaysia. It is man-made and imitated naturally occurring ones. The amount of species is quite limited. It requires large inputs of organic matter in the form of food, very little of the organic matter that enters this ecosystem is recycled so it is unstable.
Species in Bukit Gasing
Species in Sunway College
*Location to carry out the fieldwork: