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Ecosystem

Functional ecological unit in which the biological, physical and chemical components of the environment interact. 

Error risks

In statistics a type I Error (or error of the first type) is the incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis and a type II Error (or error of the second type) is the failure to reject a false null hypothesis.