Biology (11th Edition)

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Chapter 56 - Community Ecology - Review Questions - Synthesize: 5


Yes, since ecosystems depend on how they are defined. You could have multiple ecosystems, or subecosystems, in one physical place with few or no interactions between them. For example, a bog in the middle of a temperate rainforest includes very different species from those in the forest and those species would interact little with those in the forest.

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The key here is to see how ecosystems can be defined by scale, so that two may coexist side-by-side in one physical place, with little interaction between them. They might still be combined to define a larger ecosystem in which they still did not interact much.
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