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Rain forest, e.g.
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ecosystem
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Word definitions for ecosystem in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1935; see eco- + system . Perhaps coined by English ecologist Sir Arthur George Tansley (1871-1955).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), interacting as a system. These biotic and abiotic components are regarded as linked together through ...
Usage examples of ecosystem.
Complex ecosystems flourish in neritic pools and flatlands, sliding on organic scree to the edge of rock shelves and dropping into a zone below light.
Preliminary predictive databasing indicates positive ozonation yields without statistically significant shifts in lateral ecosystem equilibria.
Some polemicists assert that humans are a biological plague on the planet Earth, a danger to the ecosystem, overpopulating and polluting the planet.
New Guinea that lives symbiotically with dozens of plants, growing in the niches and clefts in its carapace, rooted all the way down to its flesh, plus a whole ecosystem of mites, rotifers, nematodes, and bacteria attached to the garden.
The archeological evidence from one area, southern Africa, is that humans lived stably for 130,000 years without overwhelming the ecosystem upon which they depended.
El Salvador is of native tribes who lived stably with their habitat, the forests and other ecosystems of the isthmus.
I dissent not to condone the intrusion of humankind into this ecosystem, but to protest a proceeding which will attempt on the basis of quantitative anthropocentric standards to determine the relative value of a lifeform against the desire of humankind to possess what this world has held until now unique within the rules established by its own genetic heritage.
Open Innovation companies regard the VC community, and the start-ups the community funds, as mutualistic participants in a complex ecosystem of firms that create, recombine, compete, imitate, and interact with each other.
Our work on our watersheds with seeds, permaculture and natural plants could enable us to be of some assistance to the human family and to the earth, as the ecosystems are impacted.
Satellite surveys show changes in the photosynthetic pigments with which phytoplankton, microscopic algae that are the primary producers of most marine ecosystems, turn sunlight into chemical energy, yet there is an overall increase in biomass.
In the termite ecosystem, an arrangement of Byzantine complexity, he stands at the epicenter.
Its fledgling ecosystem was shallow and undiversified, with only a few primitive species, most of them in the cradle of the sea.
Develop the nexus region at the outset, then develop the Anchors in sectors until we have a working ecosystem in each.
Tierra Natal and the grassy plains around it, mapping and exploiting the Amazonia aquifer and getting a toehold on the Brasilia ecosystem.
Taking a lead from our elders in the rainforest we would also be searching for plants that mimic the natural succession toward climax of the riparian habitats in particular and the broadscale ecosystem in general.