How to Spell ecosystem
ecosystem
ecosystem - noun
- The complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit
- Something (such as a network of businesses) considered to resemble an ecological ecosystem especially because of its complex interdependent parts
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"That influx of fresh water alters the ocean's salinity near the seafloor, a factor that influences the makeup of the ecosystems in those places."