• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    An ecosystem contains many species at equilibrium, but the ecosystem itself consumes all available resources.

    But that equilibrium can be maintained by those resources being replenished within the ecosystem through the actions of components of that ecosystem.

    In our example, that’s not happening. The resources are being exploited and not replaced.

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      18 hours ago

      That’s true, but it doesn’t respond to the point I was making.

      The comment I replied to was comparing an entire system to a single component within a system.