Noun

Singular ecology

Plural countable and uncountable; plural ecologies

ecology (countable and uncountable; plural ecologies)

  1. The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
    • 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, 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.

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Sat Jul 24 01:57:18 2010

Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, "house" or "living relations"; -λογία, "study of") is the scientific study of the distributions, abundance and relations of organisms and their interactions with the environment. Ecology includes the study of plant and animal populations, plant and animal communities and ecosystems. Ecosystems describe the web or network of relations among organisms at different scales of organization. Since ecology refers to any form of biodiversity, ecologists research everything from tiny bacteria's role in nutrient recycling to the effects of tropical rain forest on the Earth's atmosphere. The discipline of ecology emerged from the natural sciences in the late 19th century. Ecology is not synonymous with environment, environmentalism, or environmental science. Ecology is closely related to the disciplines of physiology, evolution, genetics and behavior.

Like many of the natural sciences, a conceptual understanding of ecology is found in the broader details of study, including:

Ecology is distinguished from natural history, which deals primarily with the descriptive study of organisms. It is a sub-discipline of biology, which is the study of life.

There are many practical applications of ecology in conservation biology, wetland management, natural resource management (agriculture, forestry, fisheries), city planning (urban ecology), community health, economics, basic & applied science and it provides a conceptual framework for understanding and researching human social interaction (human ecology).

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Ars Technica The review, which appears in Ecology Letters, synthesizes dozens of research papers on sharks, skates, and rays to draw a picture of declining large shark ...

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How much do you know about polar bear ecology?
Q. Many articles generally exhibit a poor understanding of polar bear ecology and use information out of context, which results in public confusion about the threat to polar bears. While currently they still inhabit the majority of their original habitat, the species appears to be in trouble. If projections are correct, loss of a significant portion of their ice habitat will have profound negative effects on polar bears. The symptoms of climate warming on polar bears are becoming clearer. If people are truly concerned about the fate of this species, we need to collectively reduce greenhouse gas production significantly, and quickly. Your thoughts?
Asked by Amy L - Fri May 9 22:14:41 2008 - - 2 Answers - 1 Comments

A. I think the ultimate representation of the irony of mankind's interference in natural order is the day Greenpeace is out off of Newfoundland clubbing baby seals to feed to starving polar bears.
Answered by NONAME - Fri May 9 23:57:12 2008

Why is the definition of ecology so misunderstood?
Q. Ecology is a science that whose fundamental workings/purpose are misunderstood by and foreign to those outside fo the field. Why do you think it is misunderstood by so many?
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A. Because the word has been kidnapped by the environmentalists and it has become politicized.
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What does Net Energy Yield has to do with economy and ecology?
Q. Since Net Energy Yield is the total useful energy produced during the lifetime of an entire energy system minus the energy used, lost, or wasted in making useful energy available. What does it have o do with economy and ecology?
Asked by Enigma Soul - Wed Sep 27 16:26:45 2006 - - 1 Answers - 1 Comments

A. It is actually possible to measure economic patterns through energy instead of money. It is one of the most important ways of measuring what is happening economically without even mentioning a dollar or finances at all. Buying energy functions almost like buying slaves in the old slave trade (muslims, romans, africans, serfs) only you don't have to feed them. Very little happens in economic activity that is not influenced by energy. What happens to energy in a market ripples through the rest of the system's productivity and trade. I think energy ecology goes (or will) way beyond the N.E.Y. that you mention. N.E.Y. sounds like "the ecology of DEAD energy".
Answered by roostershine - Wed Sep 27 17:17:14 2006

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Quotes regarding ecology:

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  • A Healthy Ecology is the Basis for a Healthy Economy
    • Claudine Schneider, U.S. Representative in The Green Lifestyle Handbook.
  • To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem.
    • Douglas P. Wheeler, EPA Journal, September-October 1990
  • The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams the flow, order collapses. The untrained miss the collapse until too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
    • Frank Herbert, in Dune ("Appendix I: The Ecology of Dune")

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