How animals evolve to graze selectively between patches, to promote greater plant growth between grazing periods. The ability to cultivate-graze is partly driven by an animals’ parentage, through genetic fitness handed down over generations and it is partly learned. Knowing where to feed increases the carbon capture potential of an ecosystemHow ecosystems function An ecosystem is a community of lifeforms that interact in such an optimal way that how ecosystems function best, is when all components (including humans and other animals) can persist and live alongside each other for the longest time possible. Ecosystems are fuelled by the energy created by plants (primary producers) that convert the Sun's heat energy More and also plays a role in maximum entropy productionWhere an ecosystem achieves a steady stable-state with the maximum possible number of species and there is very little free surplus energy because it is all consumed inside biological processes. Entropy dictates that all matter moves towards chaos but animal life enables ecosystems to continually move in the opposite direction. Reaching a state of maximum entropy production is essential for More.
