FORESTRY
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
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Question
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community includes both living and nonliving parts of the environment.
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community includes both natural and artificial parts of the environment.
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ecosystem includes both living and nonliving parts of the environment.
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ecosystem includes both natural and artificial parts of the environment.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The concepts of ecosystem and community are closely related-the difference is that an ecosystem includes the physical environment, while a community does not. In other words, a community is the biotic, or living, component of an ecosystem.
Detailed explanation-2: -A community is all of the populations of different species that live in the same area and interact with one another. A community is composed of all of the biotic factors of an area. An ecosystem includes the living organisms (all the populations) in an area and the non-living aspects of the environment (Figure below).
Detailed explanation-3: -Community ecology focuses on the processes driving interactions between differing species and their overall consequences. Ecosystem ecology studies all organismal, population, and community components of an area, as well as the non-living counterparts.