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English
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Etymology
Calque of German Ökologie (coined by Ernst Haeckel), from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, eco- + -logy.
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Noun
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, 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.
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branch of biology
- Afrikaans: ekologie (af)
- Albanian: ekologji (sq) f
- Arabic: عِلْم اَلْبِيئَة m (ʕilm al-bīʔa)
- Aragonese: ecolochía f
- Armenian: էկոլոգիա (hy) (ēkologia)
- Asturian: ecoloxía f
- Belarusian: экало́гія f (ekalóhija)
- Breton: ekoloji f
- Bulgarian: екология (bg) f (ekologija)
- Burmese: ဂေဟဗေဒ (geha.beda.)
- Catalan: ecologia f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 生態/生态, 生態學/生态学 (sang1 taai3 hok6)
- Hokkien: 生態學/生态学 (seng-thài-ha̍k)
- Mandarin: 生態/生态 (zh) (shēngtài), 生態學/生态学 (zh) (shēngtàixué)
- Czech: ekologie (cs) f
- Danish: økologi (da) c
- Dutch: ecologie (nl) f
- Esperanto: ekologio
- Estonian: ökoloogia (et)
- Faroese: vistfrøði (fo) f
- Finnish: ekologia (fi), ympäristötiede (fi)
- French: écologie (fr) f
- Galician: ecoloxía (gl) f
- Georgian: ეკოლოგია (eḳologia)
- German: Ökologie (de) f
- Alemannic German: Ökologie f
- Greek: οικολογία (el) f (oikología)
- Hebrew: אקולוגיה (he) f (ekologyia)
- Hindi: पारिस्थितिकी (pāristhitikī)
- Hungarian: ökológia (hu), környezettan (hu)
- Icelandic: vistifræði n
- Ido: ekologio (io)
- Indonesian: ekologi (id)
- Interlingua: ecologia
- Irish: éiceolaíocht f
- Italian: ecologia (it) f
- Japanese: 生態学 (ja) (せいたいがく, seitaigaku)
- Kannada: ಹೊಂದಿಕೆಯರಿಮೆ (kn) (hondikeyarime)
- Kazakh: экология (ékologiä)
- Khmer: បរិស្ថានវិទ្យា (bɑɑrestʰaan vityie), និវេសនវិទ្យា (niveih vityie), អាស្រយវិទ្យា (ʼaahrɔɔyvɨtyiə)
- Korean: 생태학(生態學) (ko) (saengtaehak)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: ekolojî (ku) f
- Latin: oecologia f
- Latvian: ekoloģija (lv) f
- Lithuanian: ekologija f
- Luxembourgish: Ökologie f, Ekologie f
- Macedonian: еколо́гија f (ekológija)
- Malay:
- Jawi: کاجي عالم حيات, ايکولوݢي (ms)
- Rumi: kaji alam hayat, ekologi (ms)
- Maltese: ekoloġija f
- Maori: mātai hauropi
- Mongolian: орчинзүй (orčinzüj)
- Norman: écologie f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: økologi (no) m
- Nynorsk: økologi m
- Occitan: ecologia (oc) f
- Persian: بومشناسی (bum-šenâsi), اکولوژی (fa) (ekoloži)
- Polish: ekologia (pl) f
- Portuguese: ecologia (pt) f
- Romanian: ecologie (ro) f
- Russian: эколо́гия (ru) f (ekológija)
- Scottish Gaelic: eag-eòlas m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: екологија f
- Roman: ekologija (sh) f
- Sindhi: سَهِجِياڀياس
- Slovak: ekológia f
- Slovene: ekologija (sl) f
- Spanish: ecología (es) f
- Sundanese: ékologi
- Swahili: ikolojia (sw)
- Swedish: ekologi (sv) c, miljöforskning
- Tagalog: palamuhayan, ekolohiya
- Tajik: экология (ekologiya)
- Tamil: சூழ்நிலையியல் (ta) (cūḻnilaiyiyal)
- Thai: นิเวศวิทยา (níwêt wíttáyaa)
- Turkish: çevre bilimi (tr), ekoloji (tr)
- Ukrainian: еколо́гія (uk) f (ekolóhija)
- Vietnamese: sinh thái học (vi) (生態學)
- Volapük: köolog
- Welsh: ecoleg (cy) f
- Yiddish: עקאָלאָגיע f (ekologye)
- Zazaki: ekoloci
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totality or pattern of relationships
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See also
References
- “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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