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Coevolutionary Ecosystems
Metabiotic systems are at least always semi-integrated and always constitute coevolutionary systems--multiple life-forms evolving together and in complex relationship to one another--living systems evolve as members of communities--the ecological communities evolve over time. In other words, living systems may be said to be counter-adaptive and coevolutionary to one another depending upon the relationships that occur in the trophic pyramid--i.e., what organism eats another in order to gain the energy and nutrients required for survival. Predator-prey relationships are similar to parasitic-symbiotic relationships, which tend to be more specialized and to involve relationships between micro-biotic and macro-biotic organisms, though not always.
Evolutionary and ecological information may be said to be contained within and implicit to the patterns of interactions between organisms within a particular ecological framework--interactions and relationships that are stable in the long run are thought to contain greater structural evolutionary and ecological information than those which are transient, chance and random in the environment.
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