wat is the ecosystem like in Antartica?
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no mammals except for seals , no land predators except for skewer birds  of cours no trees extremly few inects. \n ive been there twice
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ecosystem? biosphere? biological community?
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The Desert Ecosystem\n\nDeserts are very hot and dry places. Deserts get very little rain each year. So how do plants and animals live here? This section on the desert ecosystem will explain how! \n\nBut first, do you know what a desert looks like? It is made of sand and rocks. Sometimes the sand is red! There aren't a lot of clouds over deserts, so it gets really hot during the day and cold at night.
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Living micro-organisms have been found flourishing deep within the ice of Antarctica. Since ice freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, I expect that's as cold as you can get and still allow the little beggars to move about, ingest nourishment and procreate. These are simple single-celled animals. Microbia.
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Yes. There are people at all the stations shown on the map located at this website:\n\nhttp://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/stations/index.shtml\n\nClick on it!
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an ecosystem is a place with food water shelter air and space.They are habitats for animals.
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How will you keep warm?\nIt will be lonely without other people, including women.\nYou need to work on modular housing for atmospheric-interior pressure differentials.\nYou need to know where the water is located and how to get a handle on it.\nYou need energy source(s).\nYou need entirely new clothing and suit for outdoors.\nYou need a food supply and a plan for replenishment.\nWhat is most valuable or needed will not be known for sure until people gain experience by living there.\nLots of people will also need a Doctor/Surgeon.\nYou will need to visit Finland first.\nYou will need to know sub-surface temperatures, have a piping engineer, a construction engineer (specialized).\nShould you live underground? How far? What about meteorites?\nHow best to make use of existing terrain? Needs a very old geologist with lots of experience everywhere.\nWhat about people who become criminals or go nuts? You need to be able to send them back to earth...the alternatives are not pretty.\nYou need lots of energy-efficient bio-friendly lighting, especially to avoid depression.\nSame for plants -- which ones? Some colorful veggies and flowers, for sure.\nSo you will also need gardeners, horticulturist.\nYou will need excavating equipment that operates in this environment.\nWhat kind of transportation is best for Mars??????\n\nJust a start, but if you do not think of these things first, you will have trapped yourself in a place worse than Earth, though that may be hard to imagine until you consider the matter.\n\nShould weapons be allowed or banned?\nHow will the community be governed?\nDemocracy would apply to some things, in other cases the person who knows must be dictator, lest unforgiving mistakes result.\n\nMany things we take for granted here will need constant monitoring. More recycling necessary, less garbage.\n\nWhat about long distance transport, need aircraft adapted to Martian atmospheric conditions.\n\nThis all has to grow for many, many years before it will approach self-sustaining. Meanwhile, without planet Earth to call on for help...\n\nVisit Biosphere and Antarctica before you decide
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Artemia Salina are Xerophiles.\n\nOrganisms that thrive in what, for most terrestrial life-forms, are intolerably hostile environments.1 The majority of known extremophiles are varieties of archaea and bacteria. They are classified, according to the conditions in which they exist, as thermophiles, hyperthermophiles, psychrophiles, halophiles, acidophiles, alkaliphiles, barophiles, and endoliths. These categories are not mutually exclusive, so that, for example, some endoliths are also thermophiles. \n\nThe discovery of extremophiles points out the extraordinary adaptability of primitive life-forms and further raises the prospect of finding at least microbial life elsewhere in the Solar System and beyond.2 There is also growing support for the idea that extremophiles were among the earliest living things on Earth.\n\nHere is a good link:\nhttp://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/E/extremophile.html
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well, the diversity of environment, is the fact that there is more than one type of ecosystem on earth, we are not just a desert, or just a rainforest, or plains, or mountains, we have everything.\n\nwithout the diverse nature of our landscape, life would not be possible on the scale that it is.   we would not have the weather systems that heal and renew the scars left by catostrophic weather, and the systems that keep large, dangerous systems in check.\n\ntry the natural georaphic website.
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In ecology, the word ecosystem is an abbreviation of the term, ecological system. Some consider this the basic unit in ecology.\n\nIn general terms an ecological system can be thought of as an assemblage of organisms (plant, animal and other living organisms—also referred to as a biotic community or biocoenosis) living together with their environment (or biotope), functioning as a loose unit. That is, a dynamic and complex whole, interacting as an "ecological unit".\n\nEarly conceptions of this unit were as a structured functional unit in equilibrium. This equilibrium was characterized by energy and matter flows between its constituent elements. Others considered this vision limited, and preferred to understand an ecosystem in terms of cybernetics. From this view an ecological system is not a structured functional unit in equilibrium, but a functional organisation at dynamic equilibrium, or what was also called steady state. This branch of ecology that gave rise to this view has become known as Systems Ecology. Steady state is understood as the phase of an ecological systems evolution when the organisms are "balanced" with each other and their environment. This balance is achieved through various types of symbiosis, such as predation, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism, competition, and amensalism. Introduction of new elements, whether abiotic or biotic, into an ecosystem tend to have a disruptive effect. In some cases, this can lead to ecological collapse and the death of many native species. The abstract notion of ecological health attempts to measure the robustness and recovery capacity for an ecosystem. That is, how far the ecosystem is away from steady state.\n\nThe size and scale of an ecosystem can vary widely. It may be a whole forest, as well as a small pond, or even the geobiosphere itself. Different ecosystems are often separated by geographical barriers, like deserts, mountains or oceans, or are isolated otherwise, like lakes or rivers. As these borders are never rigid, ecosystems tend to blend into each other. As a result, the whole earth can be seen as a single ecosystem, or a lake can be divided into several ecosystems, depending on the scale used.
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none primary succession is the first stage of growth in a devastated area ( like a volcanic eruption ) with no soil ( or very little ) the progression would be mosses or lichens then grasses then shrubs then trees ( but then you are in secondary succession )\n\nwhen the trees do appear the local climate determines the first species you would not have the same tree after Mount Saint Helen's as you would a Pacific Volcano
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'ant' is short for antonym meaning opposite. arctic refers to the north pole; antarctic refers to the south pole.
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I believe Antartica is divided up with different countries owning different areas or having claims to them; so if you killed someone on U.S.A. owned (claimed)area it could be prosecuted under federal jusidiction in a U.S. Federal District Court, since there probably isn't one on Antartica, likewise for other countries that have claimed Antartica.\n\nI would make sure I hid the murder weapon really good.
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There are a whole lot of apples and oranges mixing up here.\n\nThe Great Barrier Reef off Queensland is an ecosystem made up of many thousands of species of organisms. As an ecosystem, it's been accreting more or less continuously for a long time (since probably the Cretaceous Period). But during that long time the species of reef builders (corals and algae) have changed.\n\nThe modern stromatolite example is from Shark Bay, Western Australia. These stromatolites look very much like Precambrian ones. They are made of/by blue-green algae (cyanobacteria). So while the stromatolites could be considered an example of a type of ecosystem that hasn't changed for 600+ million years, the individual algal organisms themselves only live for a few days or weeks.\n\nSo the Bristlecone Pine is the oldest living single organism.
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The Bovet Island, this is the most isolated isle on Earth, The Bovet island is not close to any land mass but it is the closer too the Antarctica than any other land, It is a uninhabited island and territory of Norway. \n\nIt used to be a Norwegian whaling outpost, now the only thing on this Island is a mainly automatic research outpost. \n\nThe Bovet iland is more isolated and unhiabited than Antarcita since Antartica has a few thousand researches more or less permanently living and studying on Anarctica, \n\nThe Bovet island had a 5.5 earth quacke on it a little over one week ago, that thus it didn't damage the research outpost.\n\nIf you would like to go there you can travel by ship. \nThe pinguins there wear suits, so I guess a tux would be the correct evening wear.\n\nHope this answered your question
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it is a good question,better one is can the ants live in that environment.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate_rainforest