Environment & Ecology · Environmental Science
What does the term 'ecosystem', introduced by Sir Arthur George Tansley in 1935, primarily describe?
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- 1A community of organisms and its non-living environment interacting as a functional unit✓
- 2The maximum population size of a species sustained over time based on resource availability
- 3The final, stable stage of succession where the environment achieves ecological equilibrium
- 4The first biological community to establish itself in a newly formed or disturbed environment
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A community of organisms and its non-living environment interacting as a functional unit
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