The impact of human activity on the ecosystem

Running Head : Impacts of human beings on the ecosystem

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Impacts of human beings on Lake Saroma ecosystem

Introduction

Human beings impacts on ecosystems form the largest threat due to continued deterioration of the abiotic factors and decline of biodiversity that ultimately undermines sustainability . Lakes are highly sensitive and fragile ecosystems because they depend on a complexity of highly interdependent aquatic and terrestrial activities In their conclusion which coheres with Hiromi (2009 ) argument , Kota et al (2009

) points the need to look at the problem of the human impacts on lakes from a holistic point of view as opposed to an isolated system It is from this consideration that this provides a critical analysis of the Lake Saroma ecosystem in Japan to establish the human impacts , future implications and mechanisms of addressing the same problem

of the ecosystem

a ) Geography of Lake Saroma

Lake Saroma forms the third greatest lake in Japan and is located on the shores of Hokkaido in North Eastern part about thirty kilometers from the City of Abashiri (Takata , Takayasu and Hasegawa , 2006 . The lake has a kilometers shoreline (Bernhard and Petra , 2004 . Notably , the lake is separated from Okhotsk Sea by a sandbar that extends about 20 kilometers . Besides , this ecosystem is further bound by agricultural and forested land which forms part of its major catchment

Figure I : Lake Saroma (South Eastern shore...