Ecoregion

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-008921",
  "term": "Ecoregion",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Large landscape area defined by climate, physical characteristics, and the plants and animals that are able to live there.\n\n2. An area with a relatively uniform pattern of terrestrial and aquatic ecological systems.\n\n3. A physical region that is defined by its ecology, which includes meteorological factors, elevation, plant and animal speciation, landscape position, and soils.\n\n4. A relatively homogeneous ecological area defined by similarity of climate, landform, soil, potential natural vegetation, hydrology, or other ecologically relevant variables.\n\n5. A geographic area having relatively uniform ecological properties.\n\n6. A relatively homogeneous geographic area \"perceived by simultaneously analyzing a combination of causal and integrative factors including land surface form, soils, land uses, and potential natural vegetation. (Omernik 1987, 123) Ecoregions \"was coined by J.M. Crowley (1967) and popularized by R.G. Baily (1976) to define a mapped classification of ecosystem regions of the U.S....Ecoregions are generally considered to be the regions of relative homogeneity in ecological systems or in relationships between organisms and their environments\" (123).\n\n7. An area within which the ecosystems - and the type, quality, and quantity of environmental resources - are generally similar. An ecoregion can serve as a spatial framework for the research, assessment, management, and monitoring of ecosystems and ecosystem components. Several different classification schemes have been developed, at various scales.\n\n8. Relatively homogeneous ecological area defined by similarity of climate, landform, soil, potential natural vegetation, hydrology, or other ecologically relevant variables.\n\n9. Area within which the ecosystems - and the type, quality, and quantity of environmental resources - are generally similar. An ecoregion can serve as a spatial framework for the research, assessment, management, and monitoring of ecosystems and ecosystem components. Several different classification schemes have been developed, at various scales.\n\n10. Ecoregions is a term used to denote regions with general similarity in ecosystem characteristics. This includes types, quality and quantity of natural resources. The classification is designated to serve as a spatial framework for researchers to conduct monitoring, assessment and management programs.\n\n11. A geographic area having relatively uniform ecological properties (e.g., landform, natural vegetation, hydrology).\n\n12. Regions defined by similarity of climate, landform, soil, potential natural vegetation, hydrology, and other ecologically relevant variables.",
  "subject": "Water",
  "references": [
    "Nearshore Terrestrial Ecosystems Glossary",
    "Watershed Protection Glossary",
    "Sediment Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) Glossary",
    "Aquatic Biodiversity Glossary",
    "CADDIS Glossary",
    "Environmental Modeling and Assessment Program (EMAP) Master Glossary",
    "Report on the Environment (ROE) Glossary",
    "Aquatic Resource Monitoring - Terminology",
    "NSTEPS Online Glossary of Terms; N-STEPS Online Glossary of Terms",
    "Glossary of Wetland Bioassessment Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/ecoregion/"
}