"Ecosystem" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A functional system which includes the organisms of a natural community together with their environment. (McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D017753
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G16.500.275.157 N06.230.124
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| Concept/Terms |
Ecosystem- Ecosystem
- Ecosystems
- Systems, Ecological
- Ecological System
- Ecological Systems
- System, Ecological
- Ecologic System
- System, Ecologic
- Systems, Ecologic
- Ecologic Systems
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Ecosystem" by people in this website by year, and whether "Ecosystem" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2001 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2002 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2003 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2004 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2005 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2006 | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| 2007 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2008 | 7 | 11 | 18 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11 | 17 |
| 2010 | 12 | 6 | 18 |
| 2011 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2012 | 9 | 6 | 15 |
| 2013 | 8 | 14 | 22 |
| 2014 | 6 | 10 | 16 |
| 2015 | 10 | 13 | 23 |
| 2016 | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2018 | 6 | 10 | 16 |
| 2019 | 12 | 9 | 21 |
| 2020 | 8 | 7 | 15 |
| 2021 | 14 | 12 | 26 |
| 2022 | 10 | 6 | 16 |
| 2023 | 10 | 13 | 23 |
| 2024 | 6 | 10 | 16 |
| 2025 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ecosystem" by people in Profiles.
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The end-Cretaceous mass extinction restructured functional diversity but failed to configure the modern marine biota. Sci Adv. 2025 May 23; 11(21):eadv1171.
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Secondary Sympatry as a Sorting Process. Ecol Lett. 2025 Apr; 28(4):e70108.
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Influence of landscape composition on spatiotemporal interactions between sympatric canids. Ecol Appl. 2025 Apr; 35(3):e70047.
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A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned. Nat Commun. 2025 Feb 10; 16(1):1493.
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Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment. Commun Biol. 2025 Feb 03; 8(1):162.
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Toward a More Dynamic Metabolic Theory of Ecology to Predict Climate Change Effects on Biological Systems. Am Nat. 2025 Mar; 205(3):285-305.
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Weak-form inference for hybrid dynamical systems in ecology. J R Soc Interface. 2024 Dec; 21(221):20240376.
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Early-middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids. Nat Commun. 2024 12 17; 15(1):10346.
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Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities. Am Nat. 2025 Feb; 205(2):E34-E48.
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Effects of life history strategies and habitats on limb regeneration in plethodontid salamanders. Dev Dyn. 2025 May; 254(5):396-419.