Biotic integrity is the ability to maintain and support "a balanced, integrated, adaptive community of organisms having a species composition, diversity, and functional organization comparable to that of the natural habitat of the region."
(Biotic integrity; is; the ability to maintain and support "a balanced, integrated, adaptive community of organisms) (organisms; having; a species composition, diversity, and functional organization comparable to that of the natural habitat of the region)
Biotic integrity organisms
is having
the ability to maintain and support "a balanced, integrated, adaptive community of organisms
a species composition, diversity, and functional organization comparable to that of the natural habitat of the region