Task: Class Definition Understanding (ontology: Earth_Environment/EnvironmentOntology)

Which of the following definitions best describes 'ecosystem-wide respiration'?

A. A process which consists of all respiration processes instantiated in an ecosystem.
B. An environmental system process during which a material entity breaks into pieces or parts.
C. An environmental process during which a system does not thermally interact with its surroundings by virtue of a temperature difference between them.
D. A the concept is an environmental process in which an environmental system and the processes it participates in are strongly perturbed by external forcings. These forcings typically increase the rates of processes unfolding in the system, relative to their normal rates.

Answer: A process which consists of all respiration processes instantiated in an ecosystem.