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ecosystem
[ ee-koh-sis-tuhm, ek-oh- ]
noun
- Ecology. a system, or a group of interconnected elements, formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment:
Aquatic ecosystems differ radically from their terrestrial counterparts.
- any system or network of interconnecting and interacting parts, as in a business:
The success of Apple’s ecosystem depends on hardware/software integration.
Manufacturers, retailers, and customers are all part of the automotive industry’s ecosystem.
ecosystem
/ ˈɛkəʊ-; ˈiːkəʊˌsɪstəm /
noun
- ecology a system involving the interactions between a community of living organisms in a particular area and its nonliving environment
ecosystem
/ ē′kō-sĭs′təm /
- A community of organisms together with their physical environment, viewed as a system of interacting and interdependent relationships and including such processes as the flow of energy through trophic levels and the cycling of chemical elements and compounds through living and nonliving components of the system.
ecosystem
- A collection of living things and the environment in which they live. For example, a prairie ecosystem includes coyotes, the rabbits on which they feed, and the grasses that feed the rabbits.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ecosystem1
Word History and Origins
Origin of ecosystem1
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Example Sentences
From the looks of it, mistletoe is a keystone species and plays a crucial role in that forest ecosystem.
Experts generally consider known mortality to represent about half of actual grizzly bear deaths for the ecosystem.
Bats are crucial to the ecosystem, performing extremely valuable jobs like pollination and insect control.
Even in the most sophisticated echelons of the media ecosystem, the fix was in.
Over the next decade, the RETs wreaked havoc on the ecosystem, eating ducklings, small water birds, and other amphibians.
Familiarity with the biological components of an ecosystem is essential to meaningful radiobiological assessment.
Often little or no data are available to indicate the previous state of the ecosystem or the rate of degradation.
In some areas, nomads moving to less arid areas disrupt the local ecosystem and increase the rate of erosion of the land.
In these marginal areas, human activity may stress the ecosystem beyond its tolerance limit, resulting in degradation of the land.
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