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Many things can disrupt and alter ecosystems. Huge benefactors of disrupting ecosystems are invasive species. Invasive species are non-native organisms alien to the ecosystem. They are capable of mobbing aggressively into a habitat and take over the resources including sunlight, food, water, nutrients and space. Usually and most likely their invasion causes economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. Invasive species can be plants, animals or any other living organism whose introduction is primarily by the means of human actions. There are a limited amount of natural resources in an ecosystem so the invasive species and the native species compete for these resources. The native species have predators that check their population while the invasive species do not, so therefore the invasive species out competes the native species.
There are many components that make up an ecosystem. In an ecosystem there are biotic factors, living, and abiotic factors, not living aspects.......

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