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According the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an ecosystem is defined as a place having unique physical features, encompassing air, water, and land, and habitats supporting plant and animal life. Any group of living and nonliving organisms interdependent on one another within the same community can be an ecosystem. The earth is made up of many different ecosystems.
The flora (vegetation) and the fauna (animals) characteristics of a woodland area comprise a forest ecosystem.
A marine ecosystem comprises the organisms within the ocean environment. Examples include temperate and tropical oceans, shorelines, lagoons and coral reefs.
Organisms living in rivers, lakes and streams are examples of communities living within a freshwater ecosystem.
An urban ecosystem is the community of nonliving (buildings, structures and streets) and the living (humans and a few animals such as pigeons) within the same habitat.
According the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), an agricultural ecosystem, also known as an agroecosystem, is an ecosystem that has been domesticated. Farmland communities and the living and nonliving components within them, for example energy, machinery, irrigation and pastures, are agricultural ecosystems.
