ecosystem

Converse of object

• degrade: How important are the ferns in the ecology of degraded ecosystems, such as logged forest and oil-palm plantations?
• conserve: Constructive collaboration between all organizations will maximize the resources available to humanely remove the hedgehogs from the Uists to help conserve this unique ecosystem.
• threaten: According to UNEP this is a highly threatened ecosystem in the Mediterranean Basin ( UNEP 1989 ).
• disrupt: These are mainly environmental and disrupt the ecosystem around the dam.

Adjective modifier

• aquatic: The effect of increased nutrient loads on aquatic ecosystems.
• terrestrial: Yet, soil is the basic medium and driver for all terrestrial ecosystems.
• fragile: The effects on the fragile desert ecosystem are still being felt today.
• marine: Scientists can already detect many effects of people on marine ecosystems.
• pelagic: Global species richness of pelagic ecosystems is low, because of the broad geographical scales of distributions and processes.
• semi-natural: Ecological effects of atmospheric reactive nitrogen deposition on semi-natural terrestrial ecosystems.

Modifies a noun

• functioning: It is also exploring the consequences of such changes for ecosystem functioning.
• dynamics: There are several reasons why it might be necessary to go beyond a deterministic description of ecosystem dynamics, and include stochastic effects.
• degradation: Instead, ongoing massive biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation have deepened poverty and insecurity.
• ecology: Should ecosystem ecology, then, be regarded as an instance of the unification of the physical and biological sciences?

Noun used with modifier

• freshwater: Research has shown that metals in the food chain are the most likely long term cause of metal accumulation by fish in freshwater ecosystems.
• mangrove: There are also indirect relationships between climate change and the mangrove ecosystem through changes in sea level.
• peatland: Prof. Simon Bottrell - User of sulfur isotopes to establish pathways of pollutant sulfur uptake in forest and peatland ecosystems.
• savanna: Experience in ecosystem modeling, remote sensing and GIS would be advantageous, as would field experience in Africa or in savanna ecosystems.
• wetland: They are important, often dominant elements of many wetland ecosystems, which today are severely threatened by the human activity.
• floodplain: VEGETATION The Everglades is a unique, complex and fragile permanent floodplain ecosystem with a great diversity of habitats and flora.