ecological
IPA: ikʌɫˈɑdʒɪkʌɫ
adjective
- Relating to ecology, the interrelationships of organisms and their environment.
- Not harmful to the environment.
Advertisement
Examples of "ecological" in Sentences
- The wolves have balanced the ecological system.
- It is connected to the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve.
- He is the chairman of the Ecological Movement of Moldova.
- Hasty generalization is the opposite of the ecological fallacy.
- In her 2003 book Tucker expresses the optimistic opinion that world religions are entering a second axial age which she calls their ecological phase.
- William Dennison, a scientist at the University of Maryland environmental laboratory near Cambridge, said the bay is at what he called ecological and societal "tipping points."
- In addition to editing The One-Straw Revolution, Korn edited the The Future Is Abundant, a Guide to Sustainable Agriculture, and he is well versed in ecological approaches to farming in the Northwest.
- One researcher writes, “Whereas evolutionary biology can rarely predict where any species is going, it does predict that, despite their short-term ecological success, unicolonial ants are an evolutionary dead end.”
- Major international conferences of ecologists and economists have been held since then, many ecological economic institutes have been formed around the world, and a significant number of books have appeared with the term ecological economics in their titles [45].
- "The permanent solution is not technology, but what we call ecological separation - or no movement of live organisms between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River via the canals," said Alliance President Joel Brammeier, who co-authored a study on the subject in 2008.
- The usual opinion of local people who are involved in ecological impact studies is that the collected data of Bob's paper in its best known interpretations is flawed by people other than the author and they tend to include many questionable assumptions to gain their goal.
- Finally, once we begin to think of human groups of all sorts as like species interacting with each other in an ecosystem -- what I call the ecological/evolutionary paradigm -- we can begin to think more constructively about how to manage between-group interactions, religious and otherwise.