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biotic community

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biotic community [bī′äd·ik kə′myün·əd·ē]
(ecology)
An aggregation of organisms characterized by a distinctive combination of both animal and plant species in a particular habitat. Also known as biocenose.


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A land ethic will want to make sure it does not damage the integrity of the biotic community.
These insights need not lead us to yet another supreme moral principle, such as that of Aldo Leopold, who in A Sand County Almanac compellingly argued: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.
His approach, which he terms "libertarian ecology," recognizes "the claims of the individual as well as those of the social and biotic community.
 
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