For Leopold, an action is correct if it tends to "preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community".
Habitats play an important role in shaping the biotic communities.
Two higher elevation biotic communities find their west limits at the Peacock Mountains region.
That proper object of such sentiments is the "biotic community," revealed by the relatively new science of ecology.
Thus, the new patent policy transforms the status of the biotic community from a common heritage to the private preserve of major corporations.
He knew that his own body was host to a rich biotic community: bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites.
Simple, when put like that; but that phrase biotic community masked a whole world of troubles.
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.
However, in most real-world biotic communities, both conditions are likely to be violated from moderately to strongly.
The number of fungi recorded in India exceeds 27,000 species, the largest biotic community after insects.