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The report is the result of a workshop on the nature of ecosystem ecology as a science. The growing political importance of ecology reflects increasing public interest in environmental values and life support systems. Ecologists are expected to assume intellectual scientific and practical leadership of the broad environmental field. Ecology is defined as that scientific discipline which attempts to understand the structure, function and behavior of ecological systems. Environmental science is an interdisciplinary science that attempts to measure and evaluate the physical and biological environment, and the impact of man upon them. A paradigm is a view point or body of ideas sufficiently coherent to attract widespread acceptance.