Question
Give two examples of artificial or man made ecosystems. List the salient features by which they differ from natural ecosystems.
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Answer
Crop fields and an aquarium considered as man-made ecosystems. In artificial ecosystems the biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems are maintained artificially by regular feeding and clearing of aquarium and regular irrigation and sowing of seeds in crop field ecosystem. Natural ecosystem self sustains biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem.
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