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Ecosystem (definition)
The interactive system formed from all living organisms and their abiotic (physical and chemical) environment within a given area. Ecosystems cover a hierarchy of spatial scales and can comprise the entire globe, communities of plants and animals corresponding to specific environmental conditions at the continental scale or small, well circumscribed systems such as a small pond.
Articles tagged with Ecosystem (9)
A frog for the killing
While their kin are declining worldwide, Canada’s largest amphibian, the bullfrog, is multiplying out of control in British Columbia
Nature vs. Disaster
Why preserving the natural eco-system may help lessen the impact of severe storms
Source: Canadian Geographic, January/February 2012
Department:
Discovery
Contributors:
Carolina Novotny
Tags:
British Columbia, Earthquake, Ecosystem, Extreme weather, Floods, Hurricane Jeanne, Montreal, Quebec, Natural disasters, Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Quebec, Stanley Park, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Vancouver, British Columbia
Conserving the Darkwoods in British Columbia
The biggest conservation land deal in Canadian history reveals a story of German royalty, rugged wilderness, pioneering forestry and a shroud of privacy
Goodbye Tallgrass Prairie
Once covering 6,000 square kilometres in Manitoba’s Red River valley, the tallgrass prairie has all but vanished from the Canadian landscape
The Jordan Basin
Six years ago, an ecologically rich wedge of ocean in the northern Gulf of Maine became Canada’s first marine biodiversity showcase. Has it lived up to its promise?
Ocean predators lose their bite
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