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mesocosm

Definition

A mesocosm is an experimental method that brings a small part of the natural environment under controlled conditions. In this way mesocosms provide a link between observational field studies that take place in natural environments, but without replication, and controlled laboratory experiments that may take place under somewhat unnatural conditions

Broader concept

laboratory method

Narrower concepts

aquatic mesocosm

Creator

herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/10230

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Created 6/8/15, last modified 2/14/19

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