ecology
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- œcology (archaic)
Etymology[edit]
From German Ökologie, from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oikos, “house”) + -λογία (-logia, “study of”)
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Noun[edit]
ecology (countable and uncountable, plural ecologies)
- 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.
- 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart Earth Abides
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Translations[edit]
branch of biology
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