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Who famously said, "There is nothing static about an ecosystem; something is always happening"?

ecosystem

[ee-koh-sis-tuhm, ek-oh-] / ˈi koʊˌsɪs təm, ˈɛk oʊ- /
NOUN
environment
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He juggled not only Nvidia’s internal matters but its complicated use of its balance sheet to support the AI ecosystem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

This sponsorship within the AI ecosystem is one of the reasons “why we have this AI trade,” Lee noted.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

Incendiary speech has been further boosted by AI-powered slop that’s worsened an ailing information ecosystem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

The i Paper says there is now a succession battle under way at Nvidia, and that Huang's departure "could disrupt an AI ecosystem that he helped to shape".

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Food chains throughout the entire Australian ecosystem were broken and rearranged.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

"Our study emphasizes the connections between terrestrial and marine ecosystems," concluded Forster.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026

Mitigation work like protecting existing woodlands and restoring carbon-rich peat soils would help safeguard upland ecosystems but also support downstream communities by "improving water quality and reducing flooding", it said.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

This remarkable complexity makes the Paja Formation especially valuable for investigating how ecosystems change as older evolutionary groups decline and new ones become established.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

Together, these different sources of evidence allowed the researchers to reconstruct not only what types of vegetation existed, but also how ecosystems changed over time and how animals influenced their surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

Because agricultural fields are less diverse than natural ecosystems, they cannot perform all their functions.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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