| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Ecological integrity | Environment | 1: The condition of the biotic (aquatic community) and abiotic components (water chemistry and habitat) of unimpaired waterbodies as measured by assemblage structure and function, water chemistry, and habitat measures. (references) | |
| 2: A living system exhibits integrity if, when subjected to disturbance, it sustains and organizes self-correcting ability to recover toward a biomass end-state that is normal for that system. End-states other than the pristine or naturally whole may be accepted as normal and good. (references) | |||
| 3: The condition of an unimpaired ecosystem as measured by combined chemical, physical (including physical habitat), and biological attributes. (references) | |||
| Ecological integrity | Forestry | The quality of a natural unmanaged or managed ecosystem in which the natural ecological processes are sustained, with genetic, species and ecosystem diversity assured for the future. (references) | |
| Ecological integrity | Mining | 1: Defined as the capability of supporting and maintaining a balanced, integrated, and adaptive community of organisms having species composition, diversity, and functional organization comparable to that of natural habitats of the region (Karr and Dudley 1981). (references) | |
| 2: In general, ecological integrity refers to the degree to which the elements of biodiversity and the processes that link them together and sustain the entire system are complete and capable of performing desired functions. Exact definitions of integrity are relative and may differ depending on the type of ecosystem being described. (references) | |||
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