Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. environmental concepts

Anotations

Scope note:

The consideration of complex ecological environments as systems, rather than as assemblages of individual species. The well-being of an ecosystem depends on the functioning of its parts, and on higher-order phenomena such as population dynamics, community structure, and landscape processes.