agroecosystem
Sign in to savethumb|Agroecosystem in Croton-on-Hudson, New York (state)|New York in [[Westchester County. Intercropped tomatoes, basil, peppers and eggplants.]] Agroecosystems are the ecosystems supporting the food production systems in farms and gardens. As the name implies, at the core of an agroecosystem lies the human activity of agriculture. As such they are the basic unit of study in Agroecology, and Regenerative Agriculture using ecological approaches.
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thumb|Agroecosystem in Croton-on-Hudson, New York (state)|New York in [[Westchester County. Intercropped tomatoes, basil, peppers and eggplants.]] Agroecosystems are the ecosystems supporting the food production systems in farms and gardens. As the name implies, at the core of an agroecosystem lies the human activity of agriculture. As such they are the basic unit of study in Agroecology, and Regenerative Agriculture using ecological approaches.
Like other ecosystems, agroecosystems form partially closed systems in which animals, plants, microbes, and other living organisms and their environment are interdependent and regularly interact. They are somewhat arbitrarily defined as a spatially and functionally coherent unit of agricultural activity.