Ecosystem vs Macroecology - What's the difference?
ecosystem | macroecology |
A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.
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The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their environment.
(business, marketing) A set of interconnected products and services.
(ecology) The study of spatially large ecosystems
English words suffixed with -ology
As nouns the difference between ecosystem and macroecology
is that ecosystem is a system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit while macroecology is (ecology) the study of spatially large ecosystems.ecosystem
English
(wikipedia ecosystem)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=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.}}