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Conversion of the active organic matter in sludge into inert, harmless material.
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Ecosystems tend toward stability. If not, trees would grow at angles to the earth, deer populations would spread like wildfire across the globe, and mountains unimpeded by erosion or gravity would thrust into space.
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1. Of an equilibrium, that the dynamic adjustment away from equilibrium converges to the equilibrium. 2. Of an economic variable, not subject to large or erratic fluctuations.
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To reduce the size of fluctuations in an economic variable over time. Examples include stabilizing exchange rates by exchange market intervetion; stabilizing the price of a commodity by operation of a buffer stock; and stabilizing GDP by macroeconomic stabilization policy.
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One of the phases of a population's life cycle. The population's size remains roughly constant, ?ctuating around some average density. Also, the ability of a community to persist unchanged.
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