Question

Why is it important for scientists who study ecosystems to study more than the organisms that live there?

Answer 1

The ecosystem is the biology community and its interaction with its physical environment in a particular area.

The scientist who want to study the ecosystem, they must study all the organism living there and the physical environment they are living in. They must study the characteristics of the organism with respect to characteristics of the environmental factors, the organism interact with. So, in order to understand an ecosystem completely, the scientist must study the abiotic factors with the organism  living there. studying organism alone would provide the characteristics of the community, not the ecosystem.

Answer 2

To learn and study the organisms that live in the surrounding areas. The native species could die or be destroyed by the non native species.