A cropland ecosystem will have a major crop cultivated in a given area. It shows that the diversity in that particular area will be least. Whereas it is the opposite when the forest ecosystem is considered.
The cropland Ecosystem:
This is a manmade ecosystem. Man has been doing his best in modifying the croplands to get the maximum benefit out of them. A cropland ecosystem may be illustrated by crops like wheat, maize, rice, sugarcane, etc. It has the following components.
1. Producers: A crop along with the weeds growing in the field is the producers of a cropland ecosystem. In the cropland ecosystem of maize, weeds like Cynodon dactylon, Euphorbia hirta, Alysicarpus, Launea nudicairlis are very common.
2. Consumers: Herbivores are the primary consumers of the cropland ecosystem. These include rats, rabbits, birds, men, and insects. The second-order and the third-order consumers are represented by frogs, snakes, birds such as hawk, etc.
3. Decomposers and transformers: Bacteria and fungi like Bacillus, Aspergillus, Clostridium, Agaricus, Mucor, Aspergillus, and Fusarium are common decomposers and transformers of cropland ecosystem of maize.