An ecosystem is a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular

area, as well as all the nonliving, physical components of the environment with which the
organisms interact, such as air, soil, water and sunlight.[1] It is all the organisms in a given area,
along with the nonliving (abiotic) factors with which they interact; a biological community and
its physical environment.[1]

[edit] Overview
plants and other photosynthetic organisms are the producers that provide the food.[1] Ecosystems
can be permanent or temporary. Ecosystems usually form a number of food webs.[2]

Ecosystems are functional units consisting of living things in a given area, non-living chemical
and physical factors of their environment, linked together through nutrient cycle and energy
flow.[citation needed]

1. Natural
1. Terrestrial ecosystem
2. Aquatic ecosystem
1. Lentic, the ecosystem of a lake, pond or swamp.
2. Lotic, the ecosystem of a river, stream or spring.
2. Artificial, ecosystems created by humans.

[edit] Examples of ecosystems

 agro-ecosystems
 Agroecosystem
 Aquatic ecosystem
 Chaparral
 Coral reef
 Desert
 Forest
 Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
 Human ecosystem
 Large marine ecosystem
 Littoral zone
 Lotic
 Marine ecosystem
 Pond Ecosystem
 Prairie
 Rainforest
 Riparian zone
  Savanna
 Steppe
 Subsurface Lithoautotrophic Microbial Ecosystem
 Taiga
 Tundra
 Urban ecosystem

A freshwater ecosystem in Gran Canaria, an island of the Canary Islands.

[edit] Biomes

Biomes are a classification of globally similar areas, including ecosystems, such as ecological
communities of plants and animals, soil organisms and climatic conditions.[citation needed]