The health of ecosystems is therefore not only essential to the environment, but also important to the existence and development of human society. As components of ecosystems, human beings and ...

An ecosystem is any geographic area that includes all of the organisms and nonliving parts of their physical environment. An ecosystem can be a natural wilderness area, a suburban lake or forest, or a ...

An ecosystem is a complex network of interactions among living organisms and their physical environment ... The balance of these components is crucial for the health and sustainability of ecosystems.

A variety of ecosystems are spread across the world, each with distinctive interacting characteristics and components. They range from small (for example, a freshwater pond) to global (for example ...

[Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on predicting consistent patterns of interactions in different ecosystems in terms of the relationships among and between organisms and abiotic components of ...

Plant life clothes much of Earth’s land surface, providing structure to ecosystems (e.g., interacting systems of organisms and their physical environment), habitat for consumers, and regulating ...