Crossword clues for ecology
ecology
- The branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
- The environment as it relates to living organisms
- Environmentalist's concern
- Science dealing with pollution
- Bionomics
- Environmental science
- Observe cut limiting firm with record in green issues
- Scientific study of European settlement's good for Norway
- Science to do with the relationship between living things
- Top in English, fifth in History, German unknown, with pass in Science
- Pollution concern
- Green field?
- Study of environment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ecology \ecology\ ([-e]*k[o^]l"[-o]*j[y^]), n. [Gr. o'i^kos house + -logy.] (Biol.) the branch of biology concerned with the various relations of animals and plants to one another and to their surrounding environment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1873, oecology, "branch of science dealing with the relationship of living things to their environments," coined in German by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) as Ökologie, from Greek oikos "house, dwelling place, habitation" (see villa) + -logia "study of" (see -logy). In use with reference to anti-pollution activities from 1960s.
Wiktionary
n. The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
WordNet
n. the environment as it relates to living organisms; "it changed the ecology of the island"
the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment [syn: bionomics, environmental science]
Wikipedia
Ecology is a broad biological science and can be divided into many sub-disciplines using various criteria. Many of these fields overlap, complement and inform each other, and few of these disciplines exist in isolation. For example, the population ecology of an organism is a consequence of its behavioral ecology and intimately tied to its community ecology. Methods from molecular ecology might inform the study of the population, and all kinds of data are modeled and analyzed using quantitative ecology techniques.
When discussing the study of a single species, a distinction is usually made between its biology and its ecology. For example, " polar bear biology" might include the study of the polar bear's physiology, morphology, pathology and ontogeny, whereas "polar bear ecology" would include a study of its prey species, its population and metapopulation status, distribution, dependence on environmental conditions, etc. In that sense, there can be as many subdisciplines of ecology as there are species to study.
Ecology is a scientific journal publishing research and synthesis papers in the field of ecology. It was founded in 1920, and is published by the Ecological Society of America. It is currently ranked 15th out of 136 journals in the category "ecology" according to the Journal Citation Reports.
Ecology is the third studio album by classic rock band Rare Earth. It was released in 1970 on Rare Earth Records.
Ecology is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and their interactions with their environment.
Ecology or may also refer to:
Ecology (from , "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the scientific analysis and study of interactions among organisms and their environment. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes biology, geography, and Earth science. Ecology includes the study of interactions organisms have with each other, other organisms, and with abiotic components of their environment. Topics of interest to ecologists include the diversity, distribution, amount ( biomass), and number ( population) of particular organisms, as well as cooperation and competition between organisms, both within and among ecosystems. Ecosystems are composed of dynamically interacting parts including organisms, the communities they make up, and the non-living components of their environment. Ecosystem processes, such as primary production, pedogenesis, nutrient cycling, and various niche construction activities, regulate the flux of energy and matter through an environment. These processes are sustained by organisms with specific life history traits, and the variety of organisms is called biodiversity. Biodiversity, which refers to the varieties of species, genes, and ecosystems, enhances certain ecosystem services.
Ecology is not synonymous with environment, environmentalism, natural history, or environmental science. It is closely related to evolutionary biology, genetics, and ethology. An important focus for ecologists is to improve the understanding of how biodiversity affects ecological function. Ecologists seek to explain:
- Life processes, interactions, and adaptations
- The movement of materials and energy through living communities
- The successional development of ecosystems
- The abundance and distribution of organisms and biodiversity in the context of the environment.
Ecology is a human science as well. There are many practical applications of ecology in conservation biology, wetland management, natural resource management ( agroecology, agriculture, forestry, agroforestry, fisheries), city planning ( urban ecology), community health, economics, basic and applied science, and human social interaction ( human ecology). For example, the Circles of Sustainability approach treats ecology as more than the environment 'out there'. It is not treated as separate from humans. Organisms (including humans) and resources compose ecosystems which, in turn, maintain biophysical feedback mechanisms that moderate processes acting on living ( biotic) and non-living ( abiotic) components of the planet. Ecosystems sustain life-supporting functions and produce natural capital like biomass production (food, fuel, fiber, and medicine), the regulation of climate, global biogeochemical cycles, water filtration, soil formation, erosion control, flood protection, and many other natural features of scientific, historical, economic, or intrinsic value.
The word "ecology" ("Ökologie") was coined in 1866 by the German scientist Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919). Ecological thought is derivative of established currents in philosophy, particularly from ethics and politics. Ancient Greek philosophers such as Hippocrates and Aristotle laid the foundations of ecology in their studies on natural history. Modern ecology became a much more rigorous science in the late 19th century. Evolutionary concepts relating to adaptation and natural selection became the cornerstones of modern ecological theory.
Usage examples of "ecology".
In ecology, an ecotone is a place where two living biomes come together, a convergence characterized by a rich variety of vegetation and animal life.
AID had planned this fiasco, from the first slowboats to the retrobreeding program that produced not just the Neanderthals, but a ready-made Cenozoic ecology as well.
Some rich old coot out on the West Coast, a crackpot on ecology, has just donated fifty thousand pseudo-dollars.
My whole future depended on getting my diabetic ecology equalized within the shifting sand dunes of my bodily functions.
This will give us some necessary background information, and also serve as a platform for our discussion of ecofeminism and deep ecology.
And we will find that the same strengthsand the same weaknessesbeset ecofeminism and deep ecology as well.
The ecology has collapsed here, along the southern edge of the Llano Estacado, and the land is washing away.
Amazonian Sea, all people Roger has worked with often in the last few years, to initiate some research on the western slope of Olympus - glaciology and ecology, respectively.
Relatively tiny in terms of permanent staff, globally distributed, more post-geographic than multinational, the agency has from the beginning billed itself as a high-speed, low-drag life-form in an advertising ecology of lumbering herbivores.
Ecologies of thought are forming in a Cambrian explosion of ideas: For the solar system is finally rising to consciousness, and mind is no longer restricted to the mere kilotons of gray fatty meat harbored in fragile human skulls.
He walks a bonescape, an ossein ecology with its own undergrowth and scavengers.
The Exotics had not imported the genetic starter material for variform animals of any size, beyond what was necessary for the ecology, except for some domestic animals.
What were the medieval equivalents of Constable and ecology, of bird watching and Eleusis, of microscopy and the rites of Dionysos and the Japanese Haiku?
The upper sunlit layers were thick with a rich algal plankton, a crowded microscopic ecology.
Assuming we can get the ship repressurized, is there really going to be enough time to reestablish an ecology before the reserve air runs out?