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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈiːkəʊˌsɪstəm/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/
• ハイフネーション: eco‧sys‧tem

名詞

ecosystem (plural ecosystems)

1. A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.
   • 2012 January, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 26 January 2012, page 70:

     Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.

2. The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their environment.
3. (by extension) A network of interconnected people, organizations, products or services that resembles a natural ecosystem due to the complex interdependencies.

   The company’s ecosystem mainly comprises its supply chain, customers, end consumers and competitors.

   • 2022 March 21, Rahul Shivshankar, “The real reason why the Left eco-system has launched a scurrilous attack on the movie Kashmir Files”, in Times of India‎:

     It [The Kashmir Files] is being described by the leftist “liberal” ecosystem as a movie that peddles bigotry against Muslims.

   • 2022 February 17, Angshuman Choudhury, Suraj Gogoi, “Hijab ban: How some liberals are sleepwalking into the trap set by Hindutva nationalists”, in Scroll.in‎:

     There is a certain duality in how the Hindutva ecosystem is pushing the anti-hijab discourse into the mainstream.

   • (Can we date this quote?), “CDSA and CMA Bill Amendments”, in Singapore Police Force‎:

     Money mules play an important role in the scam ecosystem primarily to get money out of Singapore to the foreign syndicates and facilitate scams.

   • 2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian‎:

     The result, as Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon put it in a striking essay in Noema magazine, is that our online spaces are no longer open ecosystems.

上位語

• system

派生語

参照

Further reading

• ecosystem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia