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Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)
ganisms also play a vital role in regulating gasses in the at-
mosphere and the temperature on Earth. For example, if the
level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were not regu-
lated by plants, then the Earth's temperature would rise and
the ice caps would melt. As a result, some regions would be
flooded, and others would become into deserts, endanger-
ing thousands of species.
Fertilization of Plants:
One of the ecosystem serv-
ices is the fertilization of
plants and flowers. Some
220,000 species of flow-
ering plant need animals
for successful fertiliza-
tion. More than 100,000
different species take part
in this process, including
bees, butterflies, flies, birds
and even bats, 147 which carry
pollen from flowers' male or-
Butterflies help to fertilize
gans to female ovaries. Many plants by carrying pollen
from flowers' male organs
species of plants in forests,
(stamens) to their female
meadows, agricultural lands, organs (pistils).
orchards and other environ-
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