Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2009
* This use of the familiar term ecosystem is different both from the restricted sense in which we employ it (inter alia in a forthcoming volume on Ecosystem Theory and Application in our Environmental Monographs & Symposia series) and the wider sense exemplified by such terms as ‘island ecosystem’; it appears to be founded on the circumstance that ‘Limnologists generally view drainage basins as ecosystems’ (Vallentyne, John R., in litt. 21 07 1983).—Ed.Google Scholar