Arthur Tansley's 1935 paper in the journal Ecology, volume 16, pages 284 to 307, in which he introduced the term ecosystem for the whole system of organisms together with the physical factors of their environment treated as one interacting unit.
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AuthorArthur Tansley
PublisherEcology, journal of the Ecological Society of America
Publication Year1935
Source TypeJournal article
Reliability Tier1
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