FACTS ABOUT

ECOLOGICAL IMBALANCE
AND ITS
EFFECTS
 WHAT IS ECOSYSTEM ?
Eco-system is the environment where the biotic/living things interact with the
non living things/a biotic factors such as coral reef ,forest etc.

WHAT IS ECOLOGICAL IMBALANCE ?

It is the destabilization of fragile environment often as a result of economic development .It is when
natural or human caused disturbance disrupts the natural balance of ecosystem .Ecosystem has
process which sustain ecological imbalance
1.The cycle flow of materials from abiotic environment to biosphere and then to abiotic environment
2.Upholding the equblirum of interaction inside foodweb
These process must be maintained in the ecosystem any disturbance with this cycle disrupts and
effects ecological balance .some causes of ecological imbalance are
HUMAN CAUSE
 Introduction of new species and hunting
 Pollution and nuclear invention
 deforestation
NATURAL CAUSES
 Natural forest fires
 Volcanic eruptions
 Floods
 There are certain issues and problems that
Environmental are related to ecological imbalance. These are
Issues
problems that have evolved because of the disruption of ecological equilibrium. Probably,
there are three major problems which effects of imbalances in the ecosystem:
1. Global problems – these are problems that affect different nations and can only be resolve
through solidarity of affected nation. Some global problems are:
Global warming or Greenhouse effect
Acid Rain
Pollution (Air and Marine Pollution)
Depletion of ozone layer in the atmosphere
Radioactive fallout because of nuclear war
2. National problems – these are problems that affect a country and can only be resolved
within the country. These national environmental issues are:
Pollution (air, water and soil)
Degradation of natural resources such as soil erosion, deforestation, depletion of wildlife,
shortage of energy, degradation of marine ecosystems and depletion of mineral resources
Alteration and inconsistent land use like the conversion of agricultural land into industrial
estates, conversion of mangrove swamps into fishponds and salt beds.
3. Community problems – these are problems that affect in a particular localities or
communities and can only be resolve at in that exact level.
Broken and not flowing drainage
Stench damping site (Pollution)
Widespread of epidemic in localities
Global Warming is the increase of Earth's average surface temperature due
to effect of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide emissions from burning
fossil fuels or from deforestation, which trap heat that would otherwise escape
from Earth. The most significant greenhouse gas is actually water vapor,
not something produced directly by humankind in significant amounts.
However, even slight increases in atmospheric levels of  carbon dioxide
(CO2) can cause a substantial increase in temperature  Rising Seas
Changes in rainfall patterns 
Increased likelihood of extreme events
Melting of the ice caps
Melting glaciers 
Widespread vanishing of animal populations
Spread of disease 
Bleaching of Coral Reefs due to warming seas and acidification
due to carbonic acid formation 
Loss of Plankton due to warming seas