ecosystem
Definition
Self-sustaining community comprised of interdependent organisms (plants, insects, animals) and their natural environment. It provides the food chain through which energy flows, and the biological cycles that recycle essential nutrients and wastes.
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ecosystem is in the Environment & Pollution Control subject.
ecosystem appears in the definitions of the following terms:
pollutant,
food chain,
ecological load,
overshoot and collapse,
abiotic,
restoration,
biodiversity,
valued environmental attribute,
chemical stressor,
carrying capacity
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