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biotic community

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Noun1.biotic community - (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
community
group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
biome - a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate


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A land ethic will want to make sure it does not damage the integrity of the biotic community.
Ethics and the health of public park systems: sharing best management ... by LaPage, Will / Parks & Recreation
These insights need not lead us to yet another supreme moral principle, such as that of Aldo Leopold, who in A Sand County Almanac compellingly argued: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.
Ecological Humanism a Moral Image for Our Emotive Culture by FESMIRE, STEVEN / The Humanist
His approach, which he terms "libertarian ecology," recognizes "the claims of the individual as well as those of the social and biotic community.
The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism by Volokh, Alexander / Reason
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