Environment & Ecology · Ecosystem Concepts
What does the term 'ecosystem', coined by Sir Arthur George Tansley in 1935, primarily describe?
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- 1The maximum population size of a species that an environment can sustain over time
- 2A community of organisms interacting with each other and their physical environment as a unified system✓
- 3The natural and gradual process by which ecological communities change over time
- 4The capacity of an environment to resist structural changes during external disturbances
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A community of organisms interacting with each other and their physical environment as a unified system
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