The invention relates to a bioreactor apparatus (1) for growing of biological species (2), comprising at least one basin device (3) defining a first habitat (4a) for a first species (2a), and a first lighting device (5a) having one light emitting solid-state lighting source (6), adapted for the first species (2a) by emitting light (L), wherein the solid-state lighting source (6) illuminates said habitat (4) using light energy emitted from the solid-state lighting source (6), wherein the bioreactor apparatus (1) comprises a second habitat (4b), adapted for a second species (2b). The invention further relates to a bioreactor system (20) comprising two bioreactor apparatus (1a,1b), one adopted as an aquatic ecoregion, one adopted as a terrestrial ecoregion, both combined to form a complex artificial ecoregion and a method for growing light energy dependant biological species (2) in one bioreactor apparatus (1), comprising: illuminating a first species (1) in a first habitat (4a) by a first lighting device (5a), transferring the grown first species (2a) to a successive habitat (4b, 4c, 4d, . . . ), separated from the previous habitat (4), via a connection system (7), illuminating a successive species (2b,2c, . . . ) in said successive habitat (4b,4c,4d, . . . ) by a successive lighting device (5b,5c, . . . ), and repeating the steps transferring and illuminating until the desired species (2) has grown to an optimum.
