native ecosystem
Indigenous natural community
A native ecosystem is the community of plants, animals, and other organisms that evolved together in a particular place, along with their physical environment.
The term distinguishes original ecological communities from those altered by introduced species or human development: The preserve protects one of the last native ecosystems in the region.
Restoration efforts often aim to return land to something resembling its native ecosystem.
- natural habitatWhere organisms naturally occur
- habitatOrganism's natural environment
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- floraPlants of a region
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