ECOSYSTEM in a Sentence

Learn ECOSYSTEM from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For ECOSYSTEM, below is one of 6 sentences:
University of South Florida's Ernst Peebles said the oil on the floor is undermining the ecosystem from the bottom up.

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 Meanings and Examples of ECOSYSTEM
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ecosystem
 n.  system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
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Example Sentence:
1  Scavenger plays an important role in the ecosystem by contributing to the decomposition of dead animal remains.
2  University of South Florida's Ernst Peebles said the oil on the floor is undermining the ecosystem from the bottom up.
3  The history of the field is littered with the carcasses of ventures that flourished spectacularly before either crashing to oblivion (SixDegrees, MySpace) or finding a niche in the ecosystem (LinkedIn).
4  The site's constant stream of experiences, opinions and sentiments has spawned a vast commercial ecosystem, serving up putative insights to product developers, Hollywood studios, major retailers and other investors.
5  The framework applies equally to all ecosystems and in this instance is adapted for wetlands.
6  There are highly sensitive and delicately balanced ecosystems in the forest.