ecology

English

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Alternative forms

• œcology (archaic)

Etymology

From German Ökologie, from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oikos, “house”) + -λογία (-logia, “study of”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɪ.ˈkɒlə.dʒɪ/, SAMPA: /I."kQ.l@.dZI/
• (US) enPR: ĕkŏlŏjĕ, IPA: /i.ˈkɑ.lə.dʒi/, SAMPA: /i."kA.l@.dZi/

Noun

ecology (countable and uncountable; plural ecologies)

1. The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
   • 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, 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.

Derived terms

agroecology autecology chemical ecology dendroecology ecology block ethnoecology geoecology hydroecology macroecology

myrmecology palaeoecology paleoecology photoecology radioecology restoration ecology social ecology socioecology synecology

Related terms

• eco-
• ecological
• ecologist
• ecosystem
• ecotribe

Translations

branch of biology

Afrikaans: ekologië f. Alsatian: Ökologie f. Arabic: علم البيئة (ar) (3ilm al-bii'a) m. Aragonese: ecolochía f. Belarusian: экалогія (be) (ekalóhija) f. Bosnian: ekologija (bs) f. Breton: ekoloji f. Bulgarian: екология (bg) (ekologija) f. Catalan: ecologia (ca) f. Chinese: Cantonese: 生態 (saang1taai3) Mandarin: 生態 (cmn), 生态 (cmn) (shēngtài), 生態學 (cmn), 生态学 (cmn) (shēngtàixué) Corsican: ekologia? Croatian: ekologija (hr) f. Czech: ekologie (cs) f. Danish: økologi (da) c. Dutch: ecologie (nl) f. Esperanto: ekologio (eo) Filipino: ekolohiya Finnish: ekologia (fi), ympäristötiede (fi) French: écologie (fr) f. Galician: ecoloxía f. Georgian: ეკოლოგია (ekologia) German: Ökologie (de) f. Greek: οικολογία (el) (oikología) f. Hebrew: אקולוגיה (he) (ekologyia) f. Hindi: पारिस्थितिकी (hi) (pāristhitikī) Hungarian: ökológia (hu) Icelandic: vistifræði (is) n. Ido: ekologio (io) Indonesian: ekologi (id) Interlingua: ecologia (ia) Irish: éiceolaíocht f. 3 Italian: ecologia (it) f.

Japanese: 生態学 (ja) (せいたいがく, seitaigaku) Khmer: បរិស្ថានវិទ្យា (km) (bɑɑrestʰaan vityie), និវេសនវិទ្យា (km) (niveih vityie) Korean: 생태학 (ko) (sangdae-hak) (生態學 (ko)) Latin: oecologia (la) f. Lithuanian: ekologija (lt) f. Luxembourgish: Ökologie (lb) f. Macedonian: екологија (mk) (ekológija) f. Malay: ekologi (ms) Norwegian: økologi (no) m. Occitan: ecologia (oc) f. Polish: ekologia (pl) f. Portuguese: ecologia (pt) f. Romanian: ecologie (ro) f. Russian: экология (ru) (ekológija) f. Sardinian: ecologia? f. Scottish Gaelic: eag-eòlas (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: екологија (sr) f. Roman: ekologija (sr) f. Sicilian: ecologia? f. Sindhi: سَهِجِياڀياس m. Slovak: ekológia f. Slovene: ekologija (sl) f. Spanish: ecología (es) f. Sundanese: ékologi Swedish: ekologi (sv) c. Tagalog: ekolohiya Tajik: экология (tg) Thai: นิเวศวิทยา (th) (níwêt wíttáyaa) Turkish: ekologi (tr) Ukrainian: екологія (uk) (ekolóhija) f. Vietnamese: sinh thái học (vi) (生態學 (vi)) Welsh: ecoleg

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of ecology