Sir Arthur George Tansley, an English botanist, coined the term "ecosystem" in 1935 in his paper "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms" published in Ecology.
The concept of ecosystem is attributed to:
Asked in UPPSC Upper Mains 2006 · Topic: Ecology (Ecology: Definition, Principles, and Levels of Organization)
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