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    Coral reefs are formed over many years by corals secreting calcium carbonate and provide habitat for thousands of species. They are fragile ecosystems that can be damaged by pollution, overfishing, dynamite fishing, and coastal development. Tropical rainforests contain a high diversity of plant and animal life, with complex interactions between species, such as fruit bats dispersing seeds and woodpeckers nesting in tree trunks. Abiotic factors like water, sunlight, and soil interact with biotic components in forest ecosystems.

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    Coral reefs are formed over many years by corals secreting calcium carbonate and provide habitat for thousands of species. They are fragile ecosystems that can be damaged by pollution, overfishing, dynamite fishing, and coastal development. Tropical rainforests contain a high diversity of plant and animal life, with complex interactions between species, such as fruit bats dispersing seeds and woodpeckers nesting in tree trunks. Abiotic factors like water, sunlight, and soil interact with biotic components in forest ecosystems.

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    Coral reefs are formed over many years by corals secreting calcium carbonate and provide habitat for thousands of species. They are fragile ecosystems that can be damaged by pollution, overfishing, dynamite fishing, and coastal development. Tropical rainforests contain a high diversity of plant and animal life, with complex interactions between species, such as fruit bats dispersing seeds and woodpeckers nesting in tree trunks. Abiotic factors like water, sunlight, and soil interact with biotic components in forest ecosystems.

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    Coral reefs are formed over many years by corals secreting calcium carbonate and provide habitat for thousands of species. They are fragile ecosystems that can be damaged by pollution, overfishing, dynamite fishing, and coastal development. Tropical rainforests contain a high diversity of plant and animal life, with complex interactions between species, such as fruit bats dispersing seeds and woodpeckers nesting in tree trunks. Abiotic factors like water, sunlight, and soil interact with biotic components in forest ecosystems.

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    INTERACTIONS AMONG

    LIVING THINGS IN CORAL


    REEFS AND TROPICAL
    RAINFORESTS
    CORAL REEFS
    Are the most beautiful underwater
    ecosystem in the sea. A reef is made by
    corals, soft bodied enidarians with tentacles
    that secrete chalk-like substances forming
    cups that serve as their homes. These are the
    stony or hard corals. Soft corals Philippines
    is home to the Tubbataha Reef, a world
    heritage natural formation. This do not form
    cups. Extensive colonies over the years can
    form mounds of reefs.
    CORAL REEFS
    The is home to thousands of animal species like
    crabs, sea slugs, eels, soft corals, stony corals,
    jellyfishes, shellfishes and different species of sea
    stars and fishes. A clown fish may hide on the
    tentacles of sea anemones, a kind of interaction.
    An island can grow out of a coral reef. Gleaning of
    shellfish is a favorite pastime of many fisher folks
    at low, low tide in shallow waters with coral reefs.
    CORAL REEFS
    Are trampled upon by beach goers. Coral reefs
    get blasted by dynamites. Resorts, hotels,
    restaurants and even houses discharge untreated
    waste water into shore waters. Boracay was
    closed for more than 6 months to rehabilitate,the
    island due to water pollution, neglect of
    environmental clean-up and dense coastal
    development. Solid wastes affect any ecosystem
    when not disposed properly in sanitary landfills.
    Land and water pollution from man's activities
    destroy our environment.
    TROPICAL RAINFORESTS
    The tropical rain forest. The biotic community in a forest
    is the trees- hardwoods the like narra, lauan, molave and
    associated species like abaca, orchids, bamboo, vines,
    ferns and shrubs. Monkeys, fruit bats, snakes, butterflies
    and other insects, spider, birds, tree frogs, monitor
    lizards and many more are found in forest. The forest
    floor may be covered by thick mats of mosses and
    liverworts and crawling millipedes and centipedes that
    find food. The country also has mossy forest where the
    common plants are mosses in the forest floor or in
    masses in tree trunks and branches.
    TROPICAL RAINFORESTS
    Interactions in forests are those between abiotic
    and biotic factors. Water, sunlight, soil,
    minerals, gases and elements of climate are
    factors needed by biotic components.
    TROPICAL RAINFORESTS
    For example, a tree needs sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce food.
    A woodpecker needs a tree trunk for shelter, build nests and capture food from
    surroundings. A butterfly sucks nectar from orchid flowers and distributes
    pollen grains to other orchids. A fruit bat feeds on ripe fruits and distributes
    undigested seeds. Mosquitoes bite human beings in the forest. Ear fungi
    decompose dead trunks of trees.
    In these cases, plants are producers, animals are consumers (herbivores that
    feed on plants, carnivores that feed on animals, and omnivores that feed on
    both plants and animals) and fungi are decomposers. The relationships or
    interactions are varied in ecosystems. Grasslands or meadows abound in our
    country and they are also ecosystems on land. In other parts of the world,
    there are desert, temperate forests, and tundra, taiga and scrub forests.
    Thank
    You

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