that:“ecological code [...] can be defined as the sets of (sign) relations (regular irreducible
correspondences) characteristic to an entire ecosystem, including the interspecific relations
in particular”(Kull 2010: 354). It is, however, not entirely clear, what the relationship between
“the sets of (sign) relations” and local semiotic processes is, or to put it in other words, how
exactly semiosis and communication can take part in large-scale ecosystem regulation. My …