ecosystem
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"A mesophotic coral ecosystem lives deeper than the usual shallow coral reefs, in zones where light is much more limited," explained Zinzindohoué.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
But Jones described a rare ecosystem housing specialist plants, butterflies and insects, "where the UK is the epicentre globally".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The conservancy announced last year that it would use contracted hunters to shoot the invasive deer as part of an ecosystem restoration plan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
“It really is this incredible ecosystem and city that’s been built up over the last several years, and it’s become an important nexus for space, military and funding.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Though exhausted, ill, and anxious about the voyage ahead, they carried evidence of a vast, teeming, interconnected ecosystem of plants and insects, the likes of which the great European academies had never seen.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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But what makes Borneo's fires particularly worrying is the fact that they are burning through one of the world's largest tropical peatland ecosystems.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
That suggests the two populations were feeding within ecosystems that had different environmental signatures.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
There’s an inventiveness here that comes from the sprawl of the city — artists like myself who are constantly improvising, building their own ecosystems because nothing is handed to them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Around 100 wells are located in Uganda's largest and oldest national park, Murchison Falls, and there are fears of leaks from the pipeline that crosses fragile and highly biodiverse ecosystems and wildlife migration routes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
In the case of where herons live, most readers know that the northern United States is contiguous to Canada and that the two have similar ecosystems, so they don’t need a similarly.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Vocabulary lists containing ecosystem
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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