Monoculture

Abstract

A natural ecostructure comprises a very large number of plants, animals, micro-organisms, and temporary conditions of humidity, temperature, sunlight, air composition, etc. According to the temporary conditions there is encouraged survival to a selective degree for each organism involved. Consequently, there is survival of the fittest, which can be loosely defined as those organisms with a very wide range of tolerance so that they survive however the conditions change. Obviously, a steady state is never reached because environmental conditions show erratic variation and because, apart from interaction of organisms to conditions, there is interaction between the organisms. Hence, if a set of conditions is repeated it will probably find a balance of organisms different from that before.