IFOAM further explains that "organic agriculture should be based on living ecological systems and cycles, work with them, emulate them and help sustain them".
IFOAM states that "this principle roots organic agriculture within living ecological systems...for example, in the case of crops this is the living soil; for animals it is the farm ecosystem; for fish and marine organisms, the aquatic environment".
According to Dunn, indoor microbes are among the fastest-evolving species on the planet; they have an uncanny ability to live in ecological niches you could hardly imagine existing, like the dead skin cells we slough off every day (which is all that's needed to survive for a class of bacteria known as detritivores).
This raised the question as to what extent salinity can impact on Tat-dependent protein secretion by microorganisms, like the soil bacterium B. subtilis, that live in ecological niches where the salinity can fluctuate markedly.
Perhaps most delightful is Dolittle's encounters with the Whispering Vines — voluble vegetation living in ecological cooperation.
The question is what price the nation and the world will pay, in dollars, lives and ecological catastrophe, because our leaders were negligent in the meantime.
On our own turquoise speck in the cosmos, we're living through ecological breakdown, the rise of authoritarianism and the appallingly unequal distribution of resources.
The smooth implementation of urban rural coordination development can be achieved by allocating the rational scale of urban rural construction land, optimizing city town village spatial system, improving the efficiency of urban rural land utilization and restructuring urban rural production, living and ecological spaces.
In our times, a key part of that involves living as ecological an existence as we can.
Organisms live in an ecological context, and are often cogs in a well-oiled ecological machine with multiple species.
