Glaciers shaped the area, creating a unique regional ecosystem.

Thus, forest ecological studies are sometimes closely aligned with meteorological and hydrological studies in regional ecosystem or resource planning studies.

This status affords the regional ecosystem a level of protection from vegetation clearing.

Out of the 52 regional ecosystems represented in the Lake Galilee catchment, the eight (listed below), are considered endangered.

A further 13 regional ecosystems are "Of Concern"

Forty regional ecosystems are known to exist within the park and nine of them are listed as endangered, due to large-scale land clearing within the region.

He praised the holistic, multi-sectoral approach of ICAM as a way to manage the regional ecosystem.

This incorporates biodiversity conservation including endangered species, vegetation communities and regional ecosystems.

Ecoregion is short-hand for regional ecosystem.

Land on Healthy Grown farms are evaluated in the context of the regional ecosystem and are chosen based on the following parameters: