Biosphere

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere

September 1997 to August 2000 composite image of global oceanic and terrestrial photoautotroph abundance

Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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The biosphere is the global sum of all ecosystems. It can also be termed the zone of life on Earth, a closed system (apart from solar and cosmic radiation and heat from the interior of the Earth), and largely self-regulating.[1] By the most general biophysiological definition, the biosphere is the global ecological system integrating all living beings and their relationships, including their interaction with the elements of the lithosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.