ecology
ecology
Definition
ecol·ogy (ē käl′ə jē)
noun
- the branch of biology that deals with the relations between living organisms and their environment
- the complex of relations between a specific organism and its environment
- Sociology the study of the relationship and adjustment of human groups to their geographical and social environments
Etymology: Ger ökologie < Gr oikos (see eco-) + -logia, -logy
e′co·log′i·cal (ē′kə läj′i kəl, ek′ə-) adjective or e′co·log′ic
ec′·o·log′i·cally adverb
ecol′o·gist noun
ecology
Synonyms
ecology
n.
ecology
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- epidemic: Avian flu - the ecology of an epidemic Bird flu has been raging through Asia for more than a decade.
- species: What do you know about the ecology of these species in your part of the country?
- organism: Apparently not a great deal is known about the ecology of this organism.
- woodland: This research widened into an interest in the general ecology of woodlands.
- insect: The journal publishes original research on systematics and ecology of aquatic insects.
- specie: A lot of knowledge concerning the biology and ecology of the species was gained.
Converse of object
- alter: For this reason, wild boar may not be expected to significantly alter the ecology.
- breed: Compared to saving the rainforests, or helping pandas to breed, linguistic ecology can seem a bit tame.
Adjective modifier
- microbial: The Director of Studies is Dr. Sarah Watkinson, researching on microbial ecology.
- Behavioral: How Not To Murder Your Neighbor: Using Synthetic Behavioral Ecology to Study Aggressive Signaling.
- behavioral: My second line of research concerns the behavioral ecology of social bees.
- aquatic: Resource definitions like " fisheries " or " aquatic ecology " could encompass the entire globe.
- evolutionary: This was part of a larger project on the evolutionary ecology of learning ( see all Cunningham papers below ).
- terrestrial: Research Interests Research interests include African terrestrial ecology, particularly rain forest ecology.
Noun used with modifier
- freshwater: This idea is used in freshwater ecology for instance where certain species are characteristic of organic pollution.
- plankton: Research Interests: The use of molecular genetic methods to resolve questions in plankton ecology using CPR samples.
- pollination: It combines the perspectives of molecular genetics, evolutionary biology and pollination ecology.
- wetland: A mixture of water chemistry, wetland ecology and dynamics, environmental economics and agri-environmental policy!
- forest: Research Interests Research interests include African terrestrial ecology, particularly rain forest ecology.
- broadcasting: We believe that these three commitments, and therefore the channel itself, are crucial to the broadcasting ecology.
Browse dictionary entries near ecology
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- ecocatastrophe
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- ECN Explicit Congestion Notification
- ECN
