An ecosystem is a system where populations of species group together into communities and interact with each other and the abiotic environment.

[Gk. oikos, home + systema, that which is put together] A level of ecological study that includes all the organisms in a given area as well as the abiotic factors with which they interact; a community [..]

Grouping of organisms (micro-organisms, plants, animals) interacting together, with and through their physical and chemical environments, to form a functional entity within a defined environment.

An interacting natural system including all the component organisms together with the abiotic environment and processes affecting them. 

Ecosystème

Spatial fabric of interaction composed of living creatures and environmental conditions, which is capable of self-regulation.

1935; see eco- + system. Perhaps coined by English ecologist Sir Arthur George Tansley (1871-1955).

/ˈiːkoʊˌsɪstəm/ noun plural ecosystems ecosystem /ˈiːkoʊˌsɪstəm/ noun plural ecosystems Learner's definition of ECOSYSTEM [count] : everything that exists in a particular environment ◊ An eco [..]

The complex of interactions of all the organisms with their environments and with each other. Technically, it is a subunit of the biosphere or a unit of a landscape. The interactions of members of a distribution channel, or the interaction of a company and its products with consumer environments are examples of marketing applications.

community and interactions of living and nonliving things in an area. Read more in the NG Education Encyclopedia

Organisms and the environment in which they interact. Sometimes the definition is extended to include the processes of interaction. See ecology.

All the organisms in a particular region and the environment in which they live. The elements of an ecosystem interact with each other in some way, and so depend on each other either directly or indir [..]

The set of physical nonliving environmental factors of a region, plus the communities of organisms of that region. earthing-up:

 A comunnity of animals, plants, and microorganisms.

self-supporting community in which living and non-living things interact

A more or less self-contained biological community together with the physical environment in which the community’s organisms occur.

 The set of physical nonliving environmental factors of a region, plus the communities of organisms of that region.

a biotic community and its surroundings, part inorganic (abiotic) and part organic (biotic), the latter including producers, consumers, and decomposers. The term was introduced in 1935 by Sir Arthur Tansley. Social ecologist Murray Bookchin prefers the less mechanical word ecocommunity

Howard Odum's hypothesis that ecosystems change not only gradually, but in the unpredictable starts, fits, and "pulses" characteristic of systems subject to chaos dynamics.

a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment An ecosystem is a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as [..]

Any natural unit or entity including living and non-living parts that interact to produce a stable system through cyclic exchange of materials. [3]

a system existing in a particular region, at a variety of scales, where organisms exist in communities and interact with the abiotic environment around them.

Assemblage of populations of different species (often interdependent on and interacting with each other) interacting with their surroundings within a specified physical location and forming a function [..]

a relationship between different organisms that interact with each other and their environment. Read more on: Ecosystem

A dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their non-living environment interacting as a functional unit. Convention on Biological Diversity 1992 1

A self-sustaining community of plants and animals within a natural environment.

The dynamic and interactive balance maintained among individuals of different species in an environment.

The connection between a group of living things and how they interact with their environment.

The totality of factors of all kinds that make up a particular environment.

a unit in ecology consisting of the community of organisms and the environment in which it lives.

an area where living and non-living things interact Ecosystem:

A specific characteristic biological system in a location or area with a unique mix of living organisms and physical consistency such as minerals, soil and air.

a system made up of a community of animals, plants and bacteria, and the physical and chemical environment

A community of living organisms in conjunction with non-living components (e.g. air, water and mineral soil). A healthy ecosystem is a finely balanced system where animals, plants and microbes live in [..]

all of the living (biotic) and all of the physical nonliving factors (abiotic) in an area

A community of living (biotic) organisms and the non-living (abiotic) factors of their environment that they interact with.

an interacting community of biotic organisms including their physical environment.ectotherms - animals whose body temperature fluctuates with ambient temperature.

A group/community of organisms interacting with their environment.

a community of plants and animals that interact with each other and their physical environment.

A group of living things and the environment in which they live.

 A community of organisms and its physical environment.

integrated unit of a biological community, its physical environment, and interactions.  ectotherm -

A specific biological community and its physical environment interacting in an exchange of matter and energy.

a community of interacting organisms and their physical and chemical environment

A system of living organisms interacting with each other and their physical environment. The boundaries of what could be called an ecosystem are somewhat arbitrary, depending on the focus of interest [..]

A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with its environment.

a community of plants and animals coexisting and interacting with their environment

(n) a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment

  The fundamental unit in ecology, comprising of living and the nonliving elements

A community of living programmers, designers, and PR people who work together with the non-living devices in their environment, such that energy is turned into money.

a community of plants, animals, and microorganisms that are linked by energy and nutrient flows and that interact with each other and with the physical environment

An ecosystem includes all plants and animals living in a particular habitat and interacting with each other.

A community of living organisms and its physical environment; for example, coral reefs or kelp forests.

A community of organisms (animals, plants, and micro-organisms), including humans, interacting with each other and their physical environment.  

All the living things in a particular area as well as components of the physical environment with which they interact, such as air, soil, water, and sunlight.

A dynamic community of plants, animals and microbes together with their physical environment; a natural system with interacting and interdependent relationships.

A community of living organisms along with their related physical and chemical environment

the more fundamental conception is ... the whole system ..., including not only the organism-complex, but also the whole complex of physical factors forming what we call the environment of the biome - [..]

A community of organisms and their physical environment interacting as an ecological unit.  

An ecosystem is a self-sustaining community consisting of a dynamic set of living organisms that interact with each other and with their environment.

an interacting network of groups of organisms together with their non-living or physical environment

the interaction of a community of organisms within an environment. An ecosystem can describe a very specific system, such as a coral reef, or be used to broadly describe the marine ecosystem.

All living things depending on one another to survive in a certain area.

The interacting system of a biological community and its nonliving environmental surroundings.

a isolated group of living (plants, animals, people) and non-living (rocks) things that coexist together and interact which each other to ensure each others’ survival.

A community of organisms and their physical environment interacting as an ecological unit

A community of living (biotic) organisms (plants, animals and micro-organisms) existing and interacting alongside the non-living (abiotic) component of the environment (such as climate and geology) as a system.

Community of alive beings that have a relationship.

the community of different species in a particular geographic area and all of their interactions with each other and the physical environment; ecosystems are also called ecological networks

A community of organisms and their physical environment interacting as an ecological unit

Mutually interrelated communities of species and abiotic components, existing as a system with specific interactions and exchange of matter, energy, and information.

A system formed by the interaction between organisms (and people) within the environment.

A conceptual unit comprised of organisms interacting with each other and their environment having the major attributes of structure, function, complexity, interaction and interdependency, temporal change, and no inherent definition of spatial dimension.

Ecosystems encompass plant and animal communities and also include nonliving components, both structural (soil types) and functional (processes such as disturbance patterns and energy flows in and out [..]

All plant and animal life living in a particular habitat and, to at least some extent, dependent upon each other.

A local ecological community: coral reef, prairie, alpine, etc.

This term comprises of two separate words – ecological and system and refers to all biotic and abiotic components, their interactions with each other; in some defined area, with no conceptual restrictions on how large or small that area can be

A biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the non-living, physical components of the environment with which the organisms interact, such as a [..]

a community of species that lives in a particular habitat

This expression combines two different words — ecological and system — and pertains to all the biotic and abiotic elements and their mutual interactions in a given area, regardless of its size.

A system formed by the interaction of living organisms, including people, with their environment. An ecosystem can be of any size, such as a log, pond, field, forest, or the earth's biosphere.

An arrangement of living and non-living things and the forces that move among them. Living things include plants and animals. Non-living parts of ecosystems may be rocks and minerals. Weather and wild [..]

The living organisms and the nonliving environment interacting in a given area.

A network of plants and animals that live together and depend on each other for survival.

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

Ecosystem means the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit.

Communities of organisms and their physical environment interacting as a unit.

The interacting synergism of all living organisms in a particular environment; every plant, insect, aquatic animal, bird, or land species that forms a complex web of interdependency. An action taken a [..]

A community of living organisms interacting with one another and with their physical environment, such as a salt marsh, an embayment, or an estuary. A system such as Buzzards Bay is considered a sum o [..]

An ecological system in which organisms interact with each other and their non-living environment and in which there is a more or less closed cycle of nutrients.

The interacting system of a biological community and its non-living environmental surroundings.

The interacting system of a biological community and its non-living environmental surroundings.

The interacting system of a biological community and its non-living environmental surroundings.

The interacting system of a biological community and its non-living (abiotic) environmental surroundings.

An interconnected and symbiotic grouping of animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms that sustains life through biological, geological and chemical activity.

A community of living things interacting with one another and with their physical environment, such as a rain forest, pond or estuary.

An ecological unit consisting of interrelationships between animals, plants, and their environment.

A community or neighborhood in nature and the animals, plants and the area they live in.

a dynamic complex of organisms (biota), including humans, and their physical environment, interacting as a functional unit; they may vary greatly in size and composition, and display functional relati [..]

A functional system which includes the organisms of a natural community together with their Environment. (McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)

A community of organisms that depend on each other and the environment they inhabit.

A community of organisms and their physical environment interacting as an ecological unit (from Lincoln et al.1998). Usage can include reference to large units such as the North Sea down to much small [..]

a community of organisms & their physical environment acting as an ecological unit

A functional system which includes the organisms of a natural community together with their environment. (McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)

Any natural unit or entity including living and non-living parts that interact to produce a stable system through cyclic exchange of materials.

A community of interdependent living organisms and the environment they inhabit.

A more or less discrete system or community formed by the interaction of living organisms with each other and with the physical factors found in their environment.

A biological community considered in relation to its physical environment. Ejaculatory duct:

A dynamic and interdependent living community of people, parts or mechanisms that interact with one another. The term was coined by Arthur Tansley, a British Ecologist, who said that "ecosystems have the capacity to respond to change without altering the basic characteristics of the system."

A network of organisms from many different species living together in a region and their connections through the flow of energy, nutrients and matter. Those connections occur as the organisms of different species interact with one another. The ultimate source of energy in almost every ecosystem is the sun.

the complex of plants, animals and environmental factors in an ecological niche.

the combined biological and physical components of an environment

A place with living (animals, plants, microorganisms, and other organisms) and nonliving (soil, water, rocks) elements that form a complex web of interdependency.

A place with living (animals, plants, microorganisms, and other organisms) and nonliving (soil, water, rocks) elements that form a complex web of interdependency. Effluent

("E-co-sis-tem"): a community of organisms interacting with each other and their environment or surroundings.

A community of living organisms of various species in conjunction with their non-living environment (e.g. rock, mineral soil, humidity and other environmental factors). “Ecosystem” is a neutral scient [..]

All the living and non-living things that interact together in a given area.

a group of interdependent organisms and the environment they live in and depend on.

All the living things in an area and the way they affect each other and the environment.

The biological, physical, and chemical relationships between a community of organisms and the environment they live in.

A community of living and non-living things that interact as a whole.

A system formed by the interaction of a biological community with its chemical and physical environment. An ecosystem includes everything at a particular location: plants, animals, microorganisms, air [..]

outputs Materials, energy or information that moves out of an ecosystem to another ecosystem or the human social system.

A natural unit formed by the interaction of a community of plants and animals with the environment in which they live. All of the elements of an ecosystem interact with each other in some way, dependi [..]

The interacting plants, animals, and physical components (sunlight, soil, air, water) of an area.

a community of organisms, including humans, interacting with one another and the environment in which they live.

The organisms in a plant population and the biotic and abiotic factors which impact on them.

plants, animals, their physical environment, and the dynamic processes that link them.

The interacting system of a biological community and its environmental surroundings.

A complex interacting system that includes all plants, animals, and their environment within a particular area.

the interacting system of a biological community and its non-living environmental surroundings; a complex system composed of a community of fauna and flora, taking into account the chemical and phy [..]

An integrated group of biological organisms located in a particular type of habitat, and the physical environment in which they live. The ecosystem includes the living organisms, habitat structure, fa [..]

A dynamic and interrelating complex of plant and animal communities and their associated nonliving (such as physical and chemical) environment.

many functional and operations definitions; ecologists think in terms of dominant taxa, processes. We define in terms of patterns and composition because we can’t see the processes but assume that the same ones are at work as in modern analogues. We can see food webs, snapshot example of spatial distribution, Emergence:

a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment.

Is a naturally occurring assemblage of organisms (plant, animal and other living organisms—also referred to as a biotic community or biocoenosis) living together with their environment (or biotope), f [..]

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

An ecosystem consists of a dynamic set of living organisms (plants, animals, and microorganisms) all interacting among themselves and with the environment in which they live.

the relationship of air, land, water and all living beings; a community of organisms and its environment

Any system in which there is interdependence of and interaction between living organisms and their immediate physical, chemical and biological environment.

A community of different organisms that are interdependent on each other and their non-living environment, which is relatively self contained (i.e. in terms of energy flows, food chains, etc.) and is distinct from neighbouring communities. An action taken at any level in the food chain, use of a pesticide for example, has a potential domino effect [..]

The interacting system of a biological community and its non-living environmental surroundings.

A system that is made up of a community of animals, plants, and bacteria and its interrelated physical and chemical environment (USFWS).

A dynamic complex of plant, animal and microorganism communities and their nonliving environment interacting as a functional unit. Humans, where present, are an integral part of ecosystems.

A community of living organisms and their interrelated physical and chemical environment; also, a land area within a climate.

an ecological community together with its physical environment, considered as a unit.

a community of plants and animals interacting with each other and their environment. eider

an area where living and non-living things interact

A dynamic system of plant, animal, fungal and micro-organism communities, and the associated non-living physical and chemical factors.

A dynamic complex of plant, animal, fungal and microorganism communities and their associated non-living environment interacting as an ecological unit.

a community of organisms and their abiotic environment

a dynamic complex of plant, animal and microorganism communities and their non-living environment all interacting as a functional unit.

A community of plants, animals and other organisms together with the non-living components of their environment.

A community of interdependent organisms thogther with the environment they inhabit and with which they interact , and which is distinct from adjacent communities and environments. A conceptual unit fo [..]

  the organisms of a community, together with the atmosphere, soil, water and light which form a functioning system.

An ecosystem is a natural unit consisting of all plants, animals and micro-organisms in an area functioning together with all of the non-living physical factors of the environment.

Dynamic complex of plant, animal, micro-organism communities and their non-living environment, interacting as a functional unit (CBD). Ecosystems exist irrespective of political boundaries.

a dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their nonliving environment interacting as a functioning unit[9]

means a dynamic complex of organisms and their non-living environment, interacting as a functional unit[1].

The interacting synergism of all living organisms in a particular environment; every plant, insect, aquatic animal, bird, or land species that forms a complex web of interdependency. An action taken a [..]

An ecosystem is a dynamic complex of plant, animal, and microorganism communities and the nonliving environment, interacting as a functional unit. Humans are an integral part of ecosystems.

Defined as, "a spatially explicit unit of the Earth that includes all of the organisms, along with all components of the abiotic environment within its boundaries" (Likens 1992).

A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms within their environment.

An ecosystem is a community of all living organisms within a particular area, their interactions with each other and with their physical environment. Some of the most biodiverse ecosystems include cor [..]

A community of organisms and its environment functioning as a unit in nature.

Living organisms interacting with each other and their physical environment, usually described as an area that is meaningful to address these relationships.

The totality of all plant and animal species that constitute an interdepent, interrelated community.

A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit. *Sri Lanka * Telugu: (???????? ???????,sc=Telu) * Thai: (?????????,sc=Thai) * Turkish: (ekosistem) * Ukraini [..]

The interacting system of a biological community and its non-living environmental surroundings.

A loosely defined area consisting of numerous habitats.

A set of living organisms that interact with non-living components to create a system of inputs, processes and outputs.

The complex of a community and its environment functioning as an ecological unit in nature.

As defined in the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, "ecosystem" means a dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their non-living environment interacting as a functional unit.For French see écosystème

a dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their non-living environment, interacting as a functional unit.

A community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

A community of living organisms (plants, animals and micro-organisms), and the non-living components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), which interact together as a system [..]

A complex set of relationships of living organisms functioning as a unit and interacting with their physical environment. The boundaries of what could be called an ecosystem are somewhat arbitrary, de [..]

An ecosystem is a dynamic complex of plant, animal, and microorganism communities and the nonliving environment, interacting as a functional unit. Humans are an integral part of ecosystems. A well-def [..]

A general term used to describe one or more communities that are interacting with their environment as a defined unit. Ecosystems range from small units occurring in microhabitats, to larger units such as landscapes and seascapes, and even the biosphere.