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Ecosystem integrity

  • Glossary item | 19 Mar 2025

An ecosystem is understood to have integrity when its dominant ecological characteristics (e.g. elements of composition, structure, function, and ecological processes) occur within their natural ranges of variation and can withstand and recover from most perturbations.

UN Convention on Biological Diversity, 2021, POST-2020 GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK: SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION TO SUPPORT THE REVIEW OF THE UPDATED GOALS AND TARGETS, AND RELATED INDICATORS AND BASELINES, CBD/SBSTTA/24/3/Add.2/Rev.1

Source category: International Organisation

 

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