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ecosystem

[ee-koh-sis-tuhm, ek-oh-] / ˈi koʊˌsɪs təm, ˈɛk oʊ- /
NOUN
environment
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There he has dreams to create a community where elders who are hikers can live together in the montane longleaf pine ecosystem.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

Product ecologist at Nature Metrics, Dr George Muscatt, said the eDNA was "tiny traces or fingerprints of DNA that species in that ecosystem have left behind".

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

IAB Tech Lab updated its privacy standards to help ad-tech firms transmit consumer choices and data-deletion requests across the ad ecosystem.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

And Oracle remains in an especially vulnerable position in the overall AI ecosystem — with almost half of its $638 billion backlog stemming from a single customer, OpenAI.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

Because the Berlin Wall was not only blocking our way; it was blocking our sight—our ability to think about the world as a single market, a single ecosystem, and a single community.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

As people move deeper and deeper into ecosystems and territories where few, if any, had lived before, they risk interacting with pathogens that were previously confined.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Traditional approaches to studying cause-and-effect relationships are often not possible when investigating populations and ecosystems, which are large, complex and messy.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

She said they were important to island ecosystems as they dropped seeds as they foraged, helping forest regeneration, and were a key indicator species for overall ecosystem health.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

When Silescelida acristata lived, terrestrial ecosystems were still recovering from the Permian–Triassic extinction event, which occurred about 252 million years ago.

From Science Daily Aug. 10, 2026

Keystone species have disproportionate impact on their ecosystems.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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