Environmental resource management - EPCO

Life/environment interaction• Life has to be adapted to its environment conditions.• Temperature, light, humidity, soil nutrients, etc, all this has aninfluence in the species that can inhabit a particular environment.• But life is not passive, and its activity modifies in various forms theenvironment conditions.• Some long term modifications along the history of our planet havebeen dramatic, like the incorporation of oxygen to the atmosphere.• The process consisted in the break down of carbondioxide by anaerobic microorganisms that used the carbon intheir metabolism, and released the oxygen to the atmosphere, andthanks to this, plant and animal life, that need oxygen, could emerge(Great oxygenation event).• Other interactions are more immediate and simple, like the effectthat forest trees have in the smoothing of the temperature cycle,compared to non protected neighboring areas.