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I'm not sure of the context of this question, so more details would be helpful, but my initial impression would be this.

Homeostasis is the idea of all parts within an organism working together to create a balance - a regulation of the whole to maintain constant conditions or always return to what we would call an equilibrium state.

Ecology is a broad field, but if you take a whole ecosystem, the idea of homeostasis is misleading. There is no true constant or

equilibrium state of an ecosystem if you follow an ecosystem over a long enough time period. Ecosystems go through dynamic states.

Fire, for example is natural and essential part to some ecosystems. It changes the entire ecosystem, and the ecosystem passes through several stages of succession following a fire.

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