Ecology

Noun

 * 1) The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
 * 2) * 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 theory
 * socioecology
 * synecology

Related terms

 * eco-
 * ecological
 * ecologist
 * ecosystem
 * ecotribe

Thesaurus
aerobiology, agrobiology, anatomy, animal physiology, anthropology, astrobiology, autecology, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, botany, cell physiology, commensality, comparative anatomy, conchology, cryobiology, cybernetics, cytology, ecoclimate, ecodeme, ecosystem, electrobiology, element, embryology, entomology, enzymology, ethnobiology, ethology, exobiology, genetics, gnotobiotics, helminthology, herpetology, ichthyology, life science, malacology, mammalogy, medium, microbiology, molecular biology, ornithology, parasitism, pharmacology, physiology, protozoology, radiobiology, symbiosis, symbiotics, synecology, taxidermy, taxonomy, virology, xenobiology, zoogeography, zoography, zoology, zoonomy, zoopathology, zoophysics, zootaxy, zootomy

Etymology
From ökologie: from  οἶκος: + -λογία:

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ekologië
 * Alsatian: Ökologie
 * Arabic: علم البيئة
 * Aragonese: ecolochía
 * Belarusian: экалогія
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: ekoloji
 * Bulgarian:
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 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 生態 (saang1taai3)
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Corsican: ekologia?
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 * Filipino: ekolohiya
 * Finnish:, ympäristötiede
 * French:
 * Galician: ecoloxía
 * Georgian: ეკოლოგია (ekologia)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אקולוגיה
 * Hindi: पारिस्थितिकी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: vistifræði
 * Ido:
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 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: éiceolaíocht 3


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 生態学
 * Korean: 생태학 (生態學)
 * Latin:
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 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: ecologia?
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
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 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: ecologia?
 * Sindhi:
 * Slovak: ekológia
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: ékologi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ekolohiya
 * Thai: นิเวศวิทยา
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: sinh thái học (生態學)
 * Welsh: ecoleg