mesocosm
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A mesocosm (meso- or 'medium' and -cosm 'world') is any outdoor or indoor experimental system that examines the natural environment under controlled conditions. In this way mesocosm studies provide a link between field surveys and highly controlled laboratory experiments.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mesocosm” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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