Ökologie
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German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866,[1] öko- + -logie.
Pronunciation
Noun
Ökologie f (genitive Ökologie, no plural)
Declension
Declension of Ökologie
References
- ^ Ernst Haeckel (1866) Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (in German), volume 2, page 286: “Unter Oecologie verstehen wir die gesammte Wissenschaft von den Beziehungen des Organismus zur umgebenden Aussenwelt, wohin wir im weiteren Sinne alle „Existenz-Bedingungen“ rechnen können.”