Ecosystems definition

Ecosystems means the dynamic complexes of plant, animal and micro- organism communities and their non-living environment interacting as a functional unit;

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Ecosystems means a dynamic complex of plant, animal, and microorganism communities and their non-living environment, interacting as a functional unit, and includes habitat types, habitats of species and species populations.

Ecosystems means wetlands, streams, rivers, aquifers, and other water systems, as well as all naturally occurring habitats that sustain wildlife, people, flora and fauna, soil-dwelling or aquatic organisms.

Examples of Ecosystems in a sentence

• Water bodies in class 1 would require less management actions than other classes (e.g., class 1 water bodies would report on Development and Activities and share available information on Aquatic Ecosystems).

• EPA OBJECTIVE 2.2: Protect and Restore Watershed and Aquatic Ecosystems.

• Cash distributions to the State of Illinois Natural Resource Trustees shall be made to the Division of Ecosystems and Environment, Office of Realty and Planning, Department of Natural Resources, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇.

• Protecting Aquatic Ecosystems: A Guide for Puget Sound Planners to Understand Watershed Processes.

• If you have questions concerning these BMPs, please contact the USFWS Aquatic Ecosystems Conservation Program at ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇.

• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment ‐ Ecosystems and Human Well‐being: Synthesis.

• Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 13: 331-351.

• The Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012 (“RESTORE Act”) was signed into law on July 6, 2012.

• Preccedings of the 23 Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference: Fire in Grassland and Shrubland Ecosystems.

• Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems DOI: 10.1002/aqc.1100.

More Definitions of Ecosystems

Ecosystems means a living functional system which contains all organisms, including human beings, their environment

Ecosystems means a living functional system which contains all organisms, including human beings, their environment and the relationship that exists between them;

Ecosystems management and protection of deep-sea ecosystems and “Biodiversity”: understanding, monitoring, and conserving deep-sea biodiversity. This European deep-sea observatory network will then contribute to the sub-sea segment of the GMES European initiative (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) by its capacity to monitor physical, biological, geo-chemical, geological and geophysical processes occurring though out the sub-sea floor, sea floor interface and the water column. Data and information sharing will be developed between stakeholders to contribute to the understanding of key processes and protection of the marine environment. The personal involvement of key partners (and all core partners) in infrastructure boards such as Marine Infrastructure Forum (MIF) of MARIN-ERA will enable direct linkage with [r7]ESONET. ESONET ▇▇▇ will consider, link and build on existing and future initiatives in particular relevant ERA-net projects (MARINERA, BIODIVERSA and ECORD) aiming at stepping up the cooperation and coordination of research activities through networking of programmes, development and implementation of joint activities. [r8] Interactive participation in workshops organized by ESONET and ERA-net projects will be developed. For example ESONET ▇▇▇ will be presented to MARINERA to identify common activities. In this regard, links will be built with the Deep Sea Frontier (DEEP-SF) Initiative, endorsed in Bonn in 8/9/2005, which has been the object of a recent expression of interest for EU funding for an Article 169. ESONET will also consider on-going and future scientific research projects and will promote common use of infrastructure in the following initiatives: • European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD-IODP); • EMSO - European Multidisciplinary Deep sea observatory infrastructure for long term permanent monitoring of the ocean margin environment around Europe presented to ESFRI (European Scientific Forum for Research Infrastructures); • European projects : EUROMargins, IMAGES, HERMES ; • National Margins programmes. The above EU initiatives or policies will be effectively addressed by ESONET. The Network will provide European policy makers with a predictive scientific basis for deep-sea observation and sustainable use of deep-sea resources. It will also outline research perspectives with respect to the 2005 European marine Strategy and the future European Union maritime policy « a European vision for the oceans seas » (green paper pu...

Ecosystems. – means the interaction of organisms from the natural community to one another and their environment (Mendler and Odell, 2000).

Ecosystems are not only a means of providing a functional definition to the inter-actions between the non-living and living components of the biophysical environment and how they are organised in space and time. Well-functioning ecosystems also make a fundamental contribution to human wellbeing in the form of ‘ecological infrastructure’ that provides a flow of essential ecosystem goods and services to society.