Earthquakes
Hello, welcome to my blog. On this occasion
I'm going to talk to you about something that I think you already know. The Earthquakes
and how they can affect the natural environment, particularity the soil in ecosystems.
First of everything, let's define what
earthquakes mind. They are caused by an accommodation of the tectonic plates of
the Earth, and the consequences of these phenomena depend of the depth to which
the accommodation was, being stronger at a lower depth.
Soil
is an indispensable part of all ecosystems on this planet. Soil give the
nutrients to plants for growing, give them a physical stability, and give them
they water that they need so survive, with that, soil gives the possibility to live on Earth to all the
other species. All of this is caused for one characteristic that makes the soil
able to support this living: The texture. The texture is a consequence of millions
of years of soil development, and is decisive to designate the species that
will live in a zone. But, with the earthquake, the distribution of the soil is
reorganized, translocated, making the texture different. The superficial part
of the soil are the most important giver of resources, and have the most complicated
texture, and with the earthquakes, this part goes down, leaving the superficial
soil with a texture that is not optimal for the plants growing.
That is a natural phenomenon, but taking
into consideration the little quantity of natural ecosystems that humans had
left alive, natural disasters are killer of a really high percentage of natural
environments.
Disturbance as the earthquakes for ecology is very important!
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