About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 92. Chapters: Anthroposystem, Aquatic ecosystem, Biogeochemistry, Business ecosystem, Climax community, Climax species, Climax vegetation, Closed ecological system, Controlled Ecological Life Support System, Cross-boundary subsidy, Current solar income, DayCent, Earth systems engineering and management, Ecological indicator, Ecosystem diversity, Ecosystem ecology, Ecosystem engineer, Ecosystem model, Ecosystem services, Ecosystem valuation, Effective evolutionary time, Embodied energy, Emergy synthesis, Energy Systems Language, Environmental consulting, Environmental resources management, F-ratio, Food chain, Functional group (ecology), Functional response, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Habitat, Habitat corridor, Industrial ecology, Integrated Biosphere Simulator, International Arctic Research Center, Knowledge ecosystem, Landscape ecology, Land Surface Model (LSM version 1.0), Large marine ecosystem, Liebig's law of the minimum, List of permaculture projects, Lithosphere, Macroecology, Material flow, Mineral cycle, Nature Farming, Nestedness, Novel ecosystem, Nutrient cycle, Occupancy frequency distribution, Oceanic lithosphere, Permaforestry, Rank abundance curve, Rapoport's rule, Subsurface Lithoautotrophic Microbial Ecosystem, Sustainability and environmental management, Synthetic ecosystems, Trophic species, Urban ecosystem, Wildlife corridor. Excerpt: An ecosystem is a community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), interacting as a system. These biotic and abiotic components are regarded as linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. As ecosystems are defined by the network of interactions among organisms, and between organisms and their environment, they can come in any size but...
