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Definition of ecosystem
: the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit
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Recent Examples of ecosystem from the Web
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People go for the most attractive device or the ecosystem.
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Probably one of their functions within the ecosystem is to be food for other things.
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Over the past two decades, an immense amount of journalistic energy was spent exploring the right-wing media ecosystem—from talk radio, to Fox News, to Breitbart and beyond—and documenting its growing influence on mainstream GOP politics.
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The great American press briefing is an ecosystem with its own traditions and its own inscrutable rules that has survived, in one form or another, for more than a hundred years.
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In addition, a U.S. Forest Service researcher said logging probably would not have made a big difference in the high-altitude fire that is sending embers from tree-to-tree over long distances — normal for the ecosystem.
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Reefs are ecosystems that support more than a million marine species.
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Sure, there are efficiencies that come with end-to-end control of a market ecosystem.
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Frankfurt is a natural pick given a financial ecosystem featuring Deutsche Bank AG, the European Central Bank and BaFin, seen by many as the only regulator outside of London capable of handling the banks’ complicated derivatives business.
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First Known Use of ecosystem
1935
Other Ecology Terms
ECOSYSTEM Defined for English Language Learners
ecosystem
playDefinition of ecosystem for English Language Learners
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: everything that exists in a particular environment
ECOSYSTEM Defined for Kids
ecosystem
playDefinition of ecosystem for Students
: the whole group of living and nonliving things that make up an environment and affect each other
Medical Dictionary
ecosystem
playMedical Definition of ecosystem
: the complex of a community and its environment functioning as an ecological unit in nature
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