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A. G. Tansley (1935) first introduced the term ecosystem: ‘The more fundamental conception is … the whole system (in the sense of physics) including not only the organism complex, but also the whole complex of physical factors forming what we call the environment … We cannot separate them (the organisms) from their special environment with which they form one physical system. … It is the systems so formed which … (are) the basic units of nature on the face of the earth. … These ecosystems, as we may call them, are of the most various kinds and sizes.’
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Whyte, R.O. (1976). The Rural Ecosystem as a Biological Entity and an Economic Resource. In: Land and Land Appraisal. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1577-6_2
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