Other forms: ecologies
Ecology is the study of how living things relate to their surroundings. Study ecology.
It is about relationships rather than species, which is what separates it from natural history. Ecology is also used loosely to mean the environment itself, which annoys ecologists.
1nounecologyThe study of how living things relate to their surroundings.
“The ecology of one pond took her four years to describe.”
ecology is a science.
German Okologie was coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel from Greek oikos, a house, plus logia, study.
Ancient Greek
οἶκος — house
German
Ökologie
English, today
ecology
Built from
German Ökologie (coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel), from Ancient Greek οἶκος (“house”) + -λογία (“study of”). by surface analysis, eco- + -logy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA