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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Calque of German Ökologie (coined by Ernst Haeckel), from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, eco- + -logy.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, /iˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɪˈkɔl.ə.d͡ʒi/
- Hyphenation: ecol‧ogy
- Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Noun[edit]
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[1], 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- agroecology
- arcology
- astroecology
- autecology
- bioecology
- chemical ecology
- chronoecology
- cultural ecology
- deep ecology
- dendroecology
- eco-
- ecological
- ecologist
- ecology block
- ecosophy
- ecosystem
- ecotribe
- ethnoecology
- geoecology
- human ecology
- hydroecology
- macroecology
- microecology
- myrmecology
- paleoecology
- photoecology
- radioecology
- restoration ecology
- socioecology
- synecology
- zooecology
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
branch of biology
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- “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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