{
  "id": "ecosystem.interdependent",
  "term": "ecosystem",
  "sense": "interdependent",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "window ontology",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a set of systems whose parameters are maintained within their windows by the output of each other.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "parameter.condition",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "feedback.communication",
      "system.organized",
      "sets.grouped"
    ],
    "interaction": "The organized systems, grouped into a set, exchange feedback that communicates changes in their parameters, enabling mutual maintenance of each other's parameters within their respective ranges.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "interdependence of maintenance",
      "reciprocal parameter regulation",
      "emergent stability through feedback"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The cyanobacteria in Lake Natron's microbial mats regulate pH and salinity, sustaining photosynthesis despite volcanic runoff.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis cascaded when mortgage defaults broke interbank lending feedback loops.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station recycles 93% of its water, balancing oxygen and CO₂ through interconnected life support systems.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "ecosystem",
    "ecosystems"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Removed 'windows.opening' (irrelevant homograph); added 'sets.grouped' (constitutive of the set structure in the definition). Kept only components directly referenced or logically required by the cano"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ecosystem.interdependent"
}