ecosystem
Example Sentences
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Ellison’s subject was America, whose many intertwining strands he saw as forming one great ecosystem.
If social media were a literal ecosystem, it would be about as healthy as Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River in the 1960s—when it was so polluted it repeatedly caught fire.
The changing chemical mixtures released by microplastics could affect aquatic ecosystems in multiple ways.
From Science Daily
On Earth, regions shaped by large river systems are some of the richest ecosystems on the planet -- the Amazon River basin alone supports tens of thousands of known species.
From Science Daily
And that barely scratches the surface of how bad things are going to get as our planet cooks and our ecosystem collapses.
From Salon
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