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• Urban ecosystem — Urban ecosystems are the cities, towns and urban strips constructed by humans.This growth in the urban population and the supporting built infrastructure has impacted on both urban environments and also on areas which surround urban areas. These… …   Wikipedia

• Urban ecology — is the subfield of ecology which deals with the interaction of plants, animals and humans with each other and with their environment in urban or urbanizing settings. Analysis of urban settings in the context of ecosystem ecology (looking at the… …   Wikipedia

• Ecosystem — An ecosystem is a natural unit consisting of all plants, animals and micro organisms(biotic factors) in an area functioning together with all of the non living physical (abiotic) factors of the environment.Christopherson, RW (1996) Geosystems: An …   Wikipedia

• Urban wild — An urban wild is a remnant of a natural ecosystem found in the midst of an otherwise highly developed urban area.UtilityUrban wilds, particularly those of several acres or more, are often intact ecological systems that can provide essential… …   Wikipedia

• Ecosystem services — Pollination by a bumblebee, a type of ecosystem service Humankind benefits from a multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by natural ecosystems. Collectively, these benefits are known as ecosystem services and include products like …   Wikipedia

• Urban forest — An urban forest is a forest or a collection of trees that grow within a city, town or a suburb. In a wider sense it may include any kind of woody plant vegetation growing in and around human settlements. In a narrower sense (also called forest… …   Wikipedia

• Human ecosystem — Human ecosystems are complex cybernetic systems that are increasingly being used by ecological anthropologists and other scholars to examine the ecological aspects of human communities in a way that integrates multiple factors as economics, socio …   Wikipedia

• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment — The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, released in 2005, is an international synthesis by over 1000 of the world s leading biological scientists that analyses the state of the Earth’s ecosystems and provides summaries and guidelines for decision… …   Wikipedia

• Total Human Ecosystem — Naveh and Lieberman (1994) and Naveh (2000) proposed the holistic, eco centric concept of the Total Human Ecosystem in order to study the anthropocene ecology and improve land use planning and environmental management, within an integrated and… …   Wikipedia

• inland water ecosystem — ▪ biology Introduction       complex of living organisms in free water on continental landmasses.       Inland waters represent parts of the biosphere within which marked biological diversity, complex biogeochemical pathways, and an array of… …   Universalium

• Novel ecosystem — Novel ecosystems are human built, modified, or engineered systems of the Anthropocene that are fundamentally altered in structure and function by human agency. Novel ecosystems are part of the human environment and niche (including urban,… …   Wikipedia