The ecosystem‐watershed concept in the environmental sciences — a review

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The ecosystem‐watershed concept, which originated with the Hubbard Brook Watershed Ecosystem study, provides an important framework for research into contemporary processes in many environments. Integration of freshwater lakes into the basic model allows such studies to be extended back in time, and the typicality of present‐day landscapes and processes to be adjudged. In many ecosystem‐watersheds, inputs, outputs and processes are dominated by cultural factors. Many effects of Man upon environmental systems are thus transmitted and expressed via the material pathways of ecosystem‐watersheds. The ecosystem‐watershed concept is thus uniquely suited to integrative and interdisciplinary analysis of many environmental problems.

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