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Autopoiesis was measured for three components (subsystems) at the planktonic and benthic zones of the Arctic lake. These were physiochemical, limiting nutrients and biomass. They include the variables and organisms related in Table 3.  According to the complexity categories established in Table 2, the planktonic and benthic components have been classified in the following categories: limiting nutrient variables in the low complexity category (C\in[0.2, 0.4); orange color), physiochemical variables in the high  complexity category (C\in[0.6, 0.8); green color) and biomass in the very high complexity category (C\in[0.8, 1]; blue color). A comparison of the complexity level for each subsystem of each zone (averaging their respective variables) is depicted in Figure 3.  In order to compare the autonomy of each group of variables, equation ** was applied to the complexity data, as shown in Figure 4. For the planktonic and benthic zones, we calculated the autopoiesis of the biomass elements in relation to limiting nutrient and physiochemical variables. All A values are greater than 1. That means that the variables related to living systems have a greater complexity than the variables related to their environment, represented by the limiting nutrient and physiochemical variables. While we can say that some physiochemical variables, including limiting nutrients have more or fewer effects on the planktonic and benthic biomass, we can also estimate that planktonic and benthic biomass   are more autonomous compared to their physiochemical and nutrient environments. The very high values of complexity of biomass imply that these living systems can adapt to the changes of their environments because of the balance between emergence and self-organization that they have.