Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a functional unit comprising a community of interacting organisms together with the physical and chemical environment with which they exchange energy and matter. It integrates biotic components, producers, consumers and decomposers, with abiotic factors such as light, water, temperature and nutrients…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 80× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2637-6075 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

An ecosystem is a functional unit comprising a community of interacting organisms together with the physical and chemical environment with which they exchange energy and matter. It integrates biotic components, producers, consumers and decomposers, with abiotic factors such as light, water, temperature and nutrients, and is characterised by energy flow through trophic levels, biogeochemical cycling of nutrients, and the food-web interactions that structure communities. Ecosystems span scales from microhabitats to biomes and are studied through measures of productivity, species richness, trophic structure, nutrient and respiration fluxes, and resilience to disturbance and environmental change. Understanding ecosystem dynamics underpins fisheries and wildlife management, conservation, and the maintenance of services such as water purification and carbon and nutrient cycling. Research grouped under this term reflects this scope: ecosystem-based fishery management of Antarctic krill to support baleen whales and predators, krill-to-whale pelagic food-web linkages along seamount migrations, insect species richness and lake biodiversity, soil-respiration responses to precipitation in temperate forest, phytoplankton community structure and diversity indices, acute toxicity of agrochemicals to fish, and wetland water-quality dynamics. The peer-reviewed literature in this area examines trophic interactions, food-web structure, biodiversity and ecosystem function across aquatic and terrestrial systems, linking ecological process to management and conservation.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 80 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Ecosystem, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Plant and Animal Ecology (ISSN 2637-6075).

Journal editorial board
Dimitris Zianis · Greece Jasmin Mantilla Contreras · Germany Narcisa Vrinceanu · Romania

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