ecosystem

plural ecosystems

1. A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.

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   Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.

   2012 January 28, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2012, page 70

2. The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their environment.
3. broadlyA network of interconnected people, organizations, products or services that resembles a natural ecosystem due to the complex interdependencies.

   The company’s ecosystem mainly comprises its supply chain, customers, end consumers and competitors.

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   He called this a process-person-context model and categorized the context as consisting of four interrelated and interacting parts: the microsystem, i.e. face to face social interactions such as with family, friends, neighbours and school; the mesosystem, the interactions between groups categorized by the microsystems such as age, for example, adolescents and parents; the ecosystem, which is the local community or authority to which the adolescent belongs, i.e. the school, the locality in which they live and the workspace, and finally, the macrosystem, which is the entire system in which the adolescent exists and encompasses social mores and economic values and defines and legislates adolescent status and rights.

   2019, Kairen Cullen, The Psychology of Parenting Teenagers, pages 63-64

   It [The Kashmir Files] is being described by the leftist “liberal” ecosystem as a movie that peddles bigotry against Muslims.

   2022 March 21, Rahul Shivshankar, “The real reason why the Left eco-system has launched a scurrilous attack on the movie Kashmir Files”, in Times of India

   There is a certain duality in how the Hindutva ecosystem is pushing the anti-hijab discourse into the mainstream.

   2022 February 17, Angshuman Choudhury, Suraj Gogoi, “Hijab ban: How some liberals are sleepwalking into the trap set by Hindutva nationalists”, in Scroll.in

   Money mules play an important role in the scam ecosystem primarily to get money out of Singapore to the foreign syndicates and facilitate scams.

   2024 February 7 (last accessed), “CDSA and CMA Bill Amendments”, in Singapore Police Force, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2024

   The result, as Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon put it in a striking essay in Noema magazine, is that our online spaces are no longer open ecosystems.

   2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian