Abstract
It is suggested that interactions between an organism and its general environment represent exchanges of energy or material and that such exchangeable entities, or "operational factors" should be the initial focus of an environmental analysis. It is only through such exchanges that an organism is "aware" of its environment and, hence, the operational portion of its environment is the sum of the sources of and sinks for operational factors. Implications of these concepts in environmental analysis and ecological interpretation are discussed.
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