ecology
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Calque of German Ökologie (coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel), from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, eco- + -logy.
Pronunciation
Noun
ecology (countable and uncountable, plural ecologies)
- (biology) The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
- 1949, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides:
- As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area. He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region.
- 2012 January, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 3 October 2013, page 31:
- As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
- (by extension) Any study of the relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
- social ecology
- linguistic ecology
- The totality or pattern of relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
Hyponyms
- agroecology
- autecology
- chemical ecology
- chronoecology
- cultural ecology
- dendroecology
- ethnoecology
- geoecology
- hydroecology
- kincentric ecology
- language ecology
- linguistic ecology
- macroecology
- myrmecology
- palaeoecology
- paleoecology
- photoecology
- phytoecology
- radioecology
- restoration ecology
- social ecology
- socioecology
- synecology
- thermoecology
Derived terms
- aeroecology
- agroecology
- anthecology
- arcology
- astroecology
- autecology
- bioecology
- chemical ecology
- chemoecology
- chronoecology
- cultural ecology
- deep ecology
- dendroecology
- eco-
- ecological
- ecologism
- ecologist
- ecology block
- ecosophy
- ecosystem
- ecotribe
- ethnoecology
- geoecology
- human ecology
- hydroecology
- immunoecology
- macroecology
- microecology
- myrmecology
- neuroecology
- paleoecology
- pedoecology
- photoecology
- physioecology
- psychoecology
- radioecology
- restoration ecology
- socioecology
- synecology
- zooecology
Related terms
Translations
branch of biology
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See also
References
- “ecology”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ecology in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "ecology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 110.
- “ecology”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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