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What is Ecosystem
1.
This term which strictly refers to relationships between biological organisms in the environment has been broadened to refer to the environment created by relationships between humans and information systems.
Learn more in: An Analysis of Privacy Language in the Scholarly Literature on Mental Health Apps
2.
Network of employees, customers, suppliers, partners, public sector and other stakeholders that together co-create value for the organization and the
ecosystem
.
Learn more in: Fostering Innovation and Value Creation Through Ecosystems: Case of Digital Business Models and Digital Platforms
3.
Interrelated parts, dimensions, and organizations acting as a unit.
Learn more in: The Past, Present, and Future of E-Business Models
4.
A biological term that has been extended to study different operators/players in a specific industry to describe the composition of major and minor players. For example, the AR and VR
ecosystem
is made up for different industry sectors such as software development, 360 degree video developers, arcade, agency, education, network, university, accelerator, platform, corporate lab, tech vendor, among others.
Learn more in: Privacy Concerns in the VR and AR Applications in Creative Cultural Industries: A Text Mining Study
5.
Refers to the interdependence of individuals within an academic course as well as the larger environment.
Learn more in: Management Education for Integrity: Raising Ethical Standards in Online Management Classes
6.
Biological system constituted by a community of living beings and the natural environment in which they live.
Learn more in: Green Innovation and Sustainable Urban Ecosystems
7.
The sum total of the environment.
Learn more in: The Effects of (Micro and Nano) Plastics on the Human Body: Nervous System, Respiratory System, Digestive System, Placental Barrier, Skin, and Excretory System
8.
Biological system constituted by a community of living beings and the natural environment in which they live.
Learn more in: Strategic Transformational Transition of Green Economy, Green Growth, and Sustainable Development
9.
An interconnected, complex system that represents multiple elements that combine to form a holistic environment.
Learn more in: Fostering Collaborative Open Simulation for Next-Gen Enterprise Learning Ecosystems
10.
In the context of this article, the
ecosystem
represented by the curriculum in a university information systems department contains (at least) the following “species”: lecturers, researchers, students, professional bodies, university administrators, and representatives of the computer industry.
Learn more in: Information Systems Curriculum Using an Ecological Model
11.
It is a segment of nature consisting of biotic and abiotic components, both interacting with each other and exchanging materials between them.
Learn more in: Impact of Pesticides on Invertebrates in Aquatic Ecosystem
12.
An existing infrastructure of automated systems.
Learn more in: Integrating Medication and Health Monitoring Systems
13.
A dynamic complex interaction of biotic and abiotic components of environment in a given region.
Learn more in: Biodiversity and Impacts of Climate Change in Home Gardens: Evidence From a Study in West Bengal, India
14.
An ecological unit that consist of a complex system of interactions between living groups (e.g., plants, animals, fungi, microorganisms) and the environment in which they live.
Learn more in: Belonging to Green: Environmental Attributes of Place Attachment in Sarajevo
15.
Distributed and adaptive system that has ability to self-organize, scale and be sustainable.
Learn more in: Case Experiences With Immigrants on Workforce Training Using Virtual Reality
16.
A system composed of the interrelationship of networks and interaction of organisms.
Learn more in: Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Issues in Platform Management: An African Perspective
17.
An assemblage composed of the interactions among biological components (such as plants, animals, microorganisms) and abiotic components (chemical and physical elements like water, air, soil, minerals).
Learn more in: Assessing Urban Ecosystem Services: Different Methodological Approaches Applied in Brazil, Germany, and Portugal
18.
An ecological community of living organisms interconnecting each other and with their physical environment in a given area.
Learn more in: International Framework of Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries: With Reference to Policy and Legislative Practices of Malaysia
19.
An assemblage composed of the interactions among biological components (such as plants, animals, microorganisms) and abiotic components (chemical and physical elements like water, air, soil, minerals).
Learn more in: Assessing Urban Ecosystem Services: Different Methodological Approaches Applied in Brazil, Germany, and Portugal
20.
A biological term that describes a community of living organisms, and by extension, of different entities. The term has been stretched to study different operators/players/companies in a specific industry to describe the arrangement of major and minor players in the industry.
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21.
The interrelation of the various groups of fauna and flora in the environment to sustain lives of the various living organisms on a sustainable basis.
Learn more in: Powering the Sustainable Development Goals for Green Growth in Nigeria
22.
Plants and animals and how they relate with their physical environment.
Learn more in: Emerging Contaminants: Pollution Control and Abatement
23.
A community of living things, together with their environment.
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24.
A community that includes all the living and nonliving things found in a certain area.
Learn more in: Transitions in Student Motivation During a MUVE-Based Ecosystem Science Curriculum: An Evaluation of the Novelty Effect
25.
The
ecosystem
is the real-life environment business and governmental partners form to interact, share, and execute goods, products, and services relevant to a common business purpose.
Learn more in: Challenges of Interoperability in an Ecosystem
26.
A set of interrelated elements within a specific territorial context. Relations of interdependence, communication and mutual influence are fundamental to the internal dynamics of any
ecosystem
.
Learn more in: The Influence of the Local Ecosystem on Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Study With Entrepreneurs and Potential Entrepreneurs of Beja (Portugal) and Huelva (Spain)
27.
A biological term that describes a community of living organisms and lifeless elements such as mineral, air, water, and soil. The term has been extended to study different players in a specific system. For example, the AR and VR
ecosystem
is made up for different industry sectors such as software development, 360 degree video developers, arcade, agency, education, network, university, accelerator, platform, corporate lab, tech vendor, among others.
Learn more in: Reality-Creating Technologies as a Global Phenomenon
28.
Is the whole of the living beings who live in a given environment, as well as their interaction.
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29.
A system refers to a collection of independent parts or events that make up a whole. Each part has a specific function, even though the expression of their roles depends on the proper functioning of all the other parts. The whole system fails to function without input from outside the system which acts to produce some output.
Ecosystem
s combine biological communities and the physical environments associated with them in which nutrients and energy move through in loops or cycles. In other words,
ecosystem
is the interacting system of a biological community and its environmental surroundings.
Learn more in: Integrating Ecosystem Management and Environmental Media for Public Policy on Public Health and Safety
30.
A biological system composed of a community of organisms and the nonliving environment with which it interacts [same for Environment and Ecology].
Learn more in: We Are Not Part of Nature; We Are Nature: An African View on One Health
31.
A self-expandable network of organizations composed of suppliers, distributors, customers, competitors, government agencies, and others, and engaged in mutual competition and cooperation. Within the
ecosystem
, members are flexible and adaptable and are affected by others.
Learn more in: Driving Forces and Factors of Amazon Effects: From Online Bookstores to Cloud Services
32.
The complex of living organisms, their physical environment, and all their interrelationships in a particular unit of space.
Learn more in: Typical Aspects of the Traditional Food Behavior Within the Romanian Rural Environment
33.
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
Learn more in: Learning Ecosystem for Open and Distance Learning
34.
Is a complex network or interconnected system.
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35.
Is a set of living organisms that interact with each other and with the environment in which they live (soil, water, soil, etc.).
Learn more in: Associations Between Climate, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services in the Pre-Sahara: Case Study of Tafilalet, Morocco
36.
Any natural unit or entity including living and non-living parts that interact to produce a stable system through cyclic exchange of materials.
Learn more in: Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals Through Environmental Education
37.
An
ecosystem
is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.
Learn more in: Ecosystem Services, Climate Change, and Food Security
38.
Group of living things or biotic factors, and non-living things or abiotic factors, which interact together as a system.
Learn more in: Learning Biology With Situated Learning in Mexican Zapoteca Tele-Secondary Schools
39.
A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.
Learn more in: Organizational Structure at the Contemporary Interface
40.
Adapted from biology, referring to a group of living organisms that interact with each other in a specific environment.
Learn more in: Breaking Barriers to Promote Sustainable Development in the Wine Industry: A Theoretical Study on the Role of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Approach
41.
An
ecosystem
is a living organism’s community in combination with the nonliving elements of its surroundings, communicating as a system.
Learn more in: Impact of the Polar Ice Caps Melting on Ecosystems and Climates
42.
A community which functions as an inter-connected system.
Learn more in: Systemizing Professional Development for Teaching Through English in Higher Education
43.
Interaction between living and non-living environment.
Learn more in: An Assessment and Policy Proposals Within the Framework of the Blue Economy and Public Policies
44.
An
ecosystem
is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (like air, water, and mineral soil), interacting as a system.
Learn more in: Status of Indian Wetlands With Special Reference to Pesticides and Their Impact
45.
Composed of several stakeholders including graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, staff, institutions, scientific societies, and funders, each with a role to play ( Hagan, 2019 )
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46.
An environment made of interconnected stakeholders with same objectives.
Learn more in: Application of Isenberg Model for Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as a Blueprint for Zimbabwe Socio-Economic Devolution
47.
Relates to the way that all these different creation agents live in close proximity to each other and how they interact with each other.
Learn more in: Digital Platforms Focused on Audiovisual
48.
Refers to a group of interacting yet semi-autonomous entities or actors that depend on each other's activities and therefore are somewhat hierarchically controlled.
Learn more in: An Ecosystem Approach to Human Resource Management: Dialogues in a COVID-19 Context
49.
The relationship between all living organisms, including humans, and their habitat (the environment). Thus, the
ecosystem
includes the environment, plants and animals (including humans).
Learn more in: Entrepreneurial Motivation to Participate in the Circular Economy
50.
For the purpose of this chapter, an
ecosystem
is intermediaries who support the school and forms part of the social system to which the school belong and the community where its located.
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51.
A bounded system of living and interdependent entities in dynamic interaction with their environment, influencing and being influenced by their environment. Here, a socioecological system such as a community or organization.
Learn more in: Viability of the Sustainable Development Ecosystem
52.
A dynamic complex interaction of biotic and abiotic components of environment in a given region.
Learn more in: Climate Change and Diseases of Plants and Animals: A Study in Home Gardens of West Bengal, India
53.
Is a system (biogeocenosis) consisting of a community of living organisms (biocenosis) and their habitat (biotope), as well as interconnections between them, exchanging matter and energy between them.
Learn more in: Bio-Farming as the Basis of Environmentally-Sustainable Arable Farming at the Time of Global Warming
54.
Ensemble formed by biotope and biocenosis, in which close relationships are established between both organisms and between them and abiotic factors.
Learn more in: Circular Economy and Circular Business Models in the Actual Global Ecological Context: Various Approaches
55.
A biological term that describes a community of living organisms and lifeless elements such as mineral, air, water, and soil. This term has been extended to study different operators/players in a specific industry. For example, the AR and VR
ecosystem
is made up for different industry sectors such as software development, 360 degree video developers, arcade, agency, education, network, university, accelerator, platform, corporate lab, tech vendor, among others.
Learn more in: Employing Digital Reality Technologies in Art Exhibitions and Museums: A Global Survey of Best Practices and Implications
56.
Integration of all necessary components such as people, statutory bodies, private sector organisations, NGOs, universities, policies, laws and processes for the effective and efficient smart city outcomes.
Learn more in: Do Smart City Solutions Contribute to the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals?: Case of Istanbul
57.
A biological system composed of a community of organisms and the nonliving environment with which it interacts (same for environment and ecology).
Learn more in: Reconfiguring Responsibility in International Clinical Trials: A Multicultural Approach
58.
A network of interactions among organisms, and between organisms and their environment. Such system can be of any size and usually is encompassed in a specifically limited space.
Learn more in: University-Based Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Evidence From Technology Transfer Policies and Infrastructure
59.
Defines the necessary infrastructure elements for the development of the Fintech area in a country
Learn more in: FinTech's Interpretations and Tunisian Ecosystem Analysis
60.
Interactions between living things and the inanimate environment surrounding them.
Learn more in: A Panel Asymmetric Causality Between Health and Climate Change: Empirical Evidence From EU Regions
61.
The sustainable
ecosystem
that improving research and advancement. A digital
ecosystem
requires to be effective, self-supporting, and scalable. In the connection of the schools and Institutions, this means a technological platform that supports learning—course content, homework, grades, shared documents, and research tools—that works concurrently seamlessly.
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