ecology

IPA: ɪkˈɑɫʌdʒi

(biology) The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
(by extension) Any study of the relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
The totality or pattern of relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.

Examples of "ecology" in Sentences

Kirk Prindle has actual professional qualifications in ecology and conservation.
Historically and psychologically, this close connection to ecology is understandable.
He reminds us that the first part of the word "ecology" derives from the Greek word for house.
The word ecology comes from the Greek words oikos and logos, and literally means "study of the home."
Well, she got an NSF fellowship that sent graduate students in ecology and conservation biology to Minnesota's metropolitan schools.
"It's really counterintuitive," said University of Wisconsin ecology professor Monica Turner, co-author of a paper that has been accepted for publication in Ecological Monographs.
Since then we've added content in ecology; in a few weeks we're going to launch a new cell biology module, and over the next year we're planning to expand across the remaining life sciences.
Diversity of the cultural ecology is a desirable state of affairs, especially in opposition to the accelerating trend toward the uniform digitalization of all sensory experience, wherein an electronic “reader” stands between experience and observation, and all manifestation is encoded identically …