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Environment and Public Health > Environment > Ecosystem
Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Ecosystem

Preferred term

Ecosystem  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Ecological System
  • Ecological Systems
  • Ecologic System
  • Ecologic Systems
  • Ecosystems
  • System, Ecologic
  • System, Ecological
  • Systems, Ecologic
  • Systems, Ecological

Note

  • the specialty ECOLOGY is also available; specify geographic term if pertinent

Scope note

  • 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)

History note

  • 94; was see ECOLOGY 1993

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017753

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