ecology

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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/, X-SAMPA: /I."kQ.l@.dZI/
• (US) enPR: ĕkŏlŏjĕ, IPA: /i.ˈkɑ.lə.dʒi/, X-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.

   • 2012 January 1, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, 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.

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 (af)
• Albanian: ekologji (sq) f
• Arabic: علم البيئة (ar) (ʿilm al-bīʾa) m
• Aragonese: ecolochía (an) f
• Armenian: բնապահպանություն (hy) (bnapahpanutyun)
• Belarusian: экалогія (be) (ekalóhija) f
• Breton: ekoloji (br) 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)

• Czech: ekologie (cs) f
• Danish: økologi (da) c
• Dutch: ecologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: ekologio (eo)
• Estonian: ökoloogia (et)
• Finnish: ekologia (fi), ympäristötiede (fi)
• French: écologie (fr) f
• Galician: ecoloxía (gl) f
• Georgian: ეკოლოგია (ka) (ekologia)
• German: Ökologie (de) f

  Alemannic German: Ökologie 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 (ga) f
• Italian: ecologia (it) f
• Japanese: 生態学 (ja) (せいたいがく, seitaigaku)
• Jèrriais: écologie f

• Khmer: បរិស្ថានវិទ្យា (km) (bɑɑrestʰaan vityie), និវេសនវិទ្យា (km) (niveih vityie)
• Korean: 생태학 (ko) (sangdae-hak) (生態學 (ko))
• Latin: oecologia (la) f
• Latvian: ekoloģija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: ekologija (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Ökologie (lb) f
• Macedonian: екологија (mk) (ekológija) f
• Malay:

  Rumi: kaji alam hayat (ms), ekologi (ms)

  Jawi: کاجي عالم حيات (ms), ايکولوݢي (ms)

• Norwegian: økologi (no) m
• Occitan: ecologia (oc) f
• Persian: بوم‌شناسی (fa) (bum-šenâsi)
• Polish: ekologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ecologia (pt) f
• Romanian: ecologie (ro) f
• Russian: экология (ru) (ekológija) f
• Scottish Gaelic: eag-eòlas (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: екологија (sh) f

  Roman: ekologija (sh) f

• Sindhi: سَهِجِياڀياس (sd)
• Slovak: ekológia (sk) f
• Slovene: ekologija (sl) f
• Spanish: ecología (es) f
• Sundanese: ékologi (su)
• Swedish: ekologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: ekolohiya (tl)
• Tajik: экология (tg) (ekologiya)
• Thai: นิเวศวิทยา (th) (níwêt wíttáyaa)
• Turkish: ekologi (tr)
• Ukrainian: екологія (uk) (ekolóhija) f
• Vietnamese: sinh thái học (vi) (生態學 (vi))
• Volapük: köolog (vo)
• Welsh: ecoleg (cy) f

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Translations to be checked

• Corsican: ekologia?
• Sardinian: ecologia? f

• Sicilian: ecologia? f

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of ecology