ecological system
collocation in Englishmeaningsofecologicalandsystem
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ecological
adjective
uk/ˌiː.kəˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌiː.kəˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating to ecology or ...
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system
noun
uk/ˈsɪs.təm/us/ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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Such micro-organisms might not only have survived, but gone on to evolve their own independent, interlockingecologicalsystemof predator-prey relations.
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Anecologicalsystemdoes not consist of components that malfunction or subsystems that operate according to a specific failure mode.
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It is difficult for a single component to dominate anecologicalsystemunless other components are fundamentally altered.
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In a metaphoricalecologicalsystemconsisting of many plants and animals, we might replace probability functions for species by probability functions for families, for example.
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The subtlety of theecologicalsystemmakes it difficult to say how a non-physical mind could specify the appropriate (a) region(s).
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This holds with particular force when domestic animals are part of theecologicalsystem.
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The population dynamics model satisfies the biological stylized facts for thatecologicalsystemand in this sense it is unique in the literature.
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They involved close contact between land, people and plants, and promoted a high degree of human control over the localecologicalsystem.
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It is worth mentioning that the economic stability discussed in the extended model is conditional on the state of theecologicalsystem.
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The subtlety of the naturalecologicalsystemhas been of great interest to philosophers for a good time now.
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This system helped to ensure human survival within the localecologicalsystem.
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In the case study area the local economic andecologicalsystemis crucially dependent on farmers' participation for operations and management of the irrigation system.
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There is insufficient attention to the functional utility of the skills targeted, that is, their ramifications within anecologicalsystemthat typically does not engender or reinforce them.
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Lasting and significant improvements were never likely in anecologicalsystemthat did not recognise estate boundaries, and in which drainage and improvement was piecemeal and uncoordinated.
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