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Ecology means the branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other. Example: “In the fifteenth century, he espoused ecology ante litteram. He endorsed ecology before the term "ecology" existed.”

Examples of ecology by meaning

nounThe branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.

  • As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area.1949, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
  • As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation.2012 January, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 03...

More sentences with ecology

  • In the fifteenth century, he espoused ecology ante litteram. He endorsed ecology before the term "ecology" existed.From the entry ante litteram
  • We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.From the entry market
  • My lab studies the connections between population, community and ecosystem ecology in aquatic environments.2026 January 30 (last accessed), Jonathan Shurin, UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2026. From the entry mesocosm
  • However, run-off from these operations have contaminated waters and heavily damaged nearby and downstream ecology.[2024 August 20, Lobsang Gelek, “EXPLAINED: The impact of climate change on the Tibetan plateau”, in Boer Deng, editor, Radio Free Asia…. From the entry Maqên
  • Moreover, our study provided more detailed information on the ecology of sphagnophilous Arrhenia species in central Europe.2023 July 1, Fungal troublemakers – using indicator species with ephemeral fruitbodies to evaluate recovery of formerly extracted raised…. From the entry sphagnophilous
  • Microorganisms are the Cinderellas of terrestrial ecology — the majority of the Earth's biomass, yet barely catalogued.1997, “Review: Cinderella's house”, in New Scientist, number 2096. From the entry terrestrial
  • Deep ecology does not separate humans—or anything else—from the natural environment.1996, Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry deep ecology
  • Armillaria, they say, should be recognized for its unique ecology and genetic diversity – not its humongosity.1993, “Scientists Question Blob Mentality”, in Forest Perspectives, volumes 3–5, Portland, Ore.: World Forestry Center, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5. From the entry humongosity
  • “Oh yes, that's Centauran vegetation—a remnant of the original ecology,” the aide told him.1990, Donald Moffitt, A Gathering of Stars, Open Road, published 2014, unnumbered page. From the entry Centauran
  • For that matter we can build robo-animals to accomplish constructive purposes within the pattern of the ecology.1974 May, Isaac Asimov, “—That Thou Art Mindful of Him!”, in Edward L[ewis] Ferman, editor, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction…. From the entry robo-animal
  • Problems with neoevolution and cultural ecology inevitably led to a strong theoretical response both in sociocultural anthropology and archaeology.2019 June 3, “Chapter 1: Introduction”, in Anna Marie Prentiss, editor, Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology, Springer…. From the entry neoevolution
  • Outlines of a systemic relation between society and ecology are evident with the theoretical innovations underlying the ecoimperialist and colonialist critiques.2017, Paul Thompson, Environmental Justice. From the entry colonialist
  • Opiang offers the first glimpse of the natural history and ecology of an immaculately private nocturnalist with a surprisingly well-endowed brain.2009 June 9, Natalie Angier, “Brainy Echidna Proves Looks Aren’t Everything”, in New York Times. From the entry nocturnalist
  • The krogan evolved in a lethal ecology.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Krogan: Biology Codex entry. From the entry quintessential
  • It becomes instant feed for the household pigs or is biodegradably reabsorbed into the natural ecology of the environment.2005, M. Ackbar Abbas, John Nguyet Erni, Internationalizing cultural studies: an anthology. From the entry biodegradably
  • New technology is making possible fieldless fieldwork that would eliminate the possibility of combining radio telemetry and observational ecology.2004, Michael L. Lewis, Inventing global ecology: tracking the biodiversity ideal in India, 1947-1997. From the entry fieldless
  • The ecology of much Western Australian mallee is poorly understood, so only a few general points can be made here.1994, R. F. Parsons, “Eucalyptus Scrubs and Shrublands”, in R. H. Groves, editor, Australian Vegetation, 2nd edition, Cambridge…. From the entry mallee
  • Through all their projects, their abiding ethos has been observing and responding to the site and its existing ecology and growth patterns.2026 May, Cyrus Dunham, “Nature's Way”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 106. From the entry abiding
  • Scientists have used bioacoustics—a subfield of ecology that relies on sound to make environmental analyses—for studying bats from afar, dolphin communication patters and more.2024, Meghie Rodrigues, “The song of a missing bird may help scientists find it”, in Science News, page 4. From the entry bioacoustics
  • It is necessary also to map the border disputes over the region, in the context of its ecology and, in particular, water flows.[2023, Alexander E. Davis, “Competitive Dam Building in the Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra River Basin”, in The Geopolitics of Melting…. From the entry Zangnan
  • In conclusion, as we predicted, the anthropopause associated with the COVID-19 lockdown apparently had an effect on the feeding ecology of this urban-dwelling predator.2023, Marc Vez-Garzón, Joan Giménez, Antoni Sánchez-Márquez, Tomás Montalvo, Joan Navarro, “Changes in the feeding ecology of an…. From the entry anthropopause
  • Social ecology, as it has been taught in Australia and elsewhere, is a broad, deep and tangential (out of the box) area of study.2020, “Preface”, in David Wright, Stuart B. Hill, editors, Social Ecology and Education, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry social ecology
  • Kincentric ecology extends beyond human life, thus enlarging our perceptual selves and the capacity to see other agents and presents of consequence.2018, Amanda Kearney, “Violence in Place: Reading Violence through Kincentric Ecology”, in International Journal of Conflict and Violence…. From the entry kincentric ecology
  • Many ecologists have shown that different bivalve species modify sediment properties, phytoplankton, bacterial communities and microphytobenthic biomass differently which were associated with their feeding ecologies.2015 August 12, “Trophic Dynamics of Filter Feeding Bivalves in the Yangtze Estuarine Intertidal Marsh: Stable Isotope and Fatty Acid…. From the entry microphytobenthic
  • Contemporary evolutionary ecology identified several factors that increase inclusive fitness, in addition to kin-selection, such as assortation or homophily, and social synergies triggered by cooperation.2015, Klaus Jaffe, “Extended Inclusive Fitness Theory bridges Economics and Biology through a common understanding of Social Synergy”, in…. From the entry assortation
  • After years of controlled and protective development, Dianjun District in Yicang has maintained fine natural ecology and become an ecological new district in Yichang.2015 May 4, Huifang Mao, “Picturesque Dianjun District in Yichang”, in Hubei Provincial People's Government Official Web Portal, archived…. From the entry Dianjun
  • This article provided no more than the prolegomena to the fruitful interdisciplinary combination of phenomenology, botany and population ecology—an approach we may term phytophenomenology.2012, Michael Marder, “Plant intentionality and the phenomenological framework of plant intelligence”, in Plant Signaling & Behavior…. From the entry phytophenomenology
  • However, there is significant opposition from eco-ethics groups, who assert that Almarcrux's primitive methanotrophic bacteria may be a precursor to a full-fledged native ecology.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Almarcrux planetary description. From the entry terraforming
  • Unlike the landscape ecology as K.1997, Paul G. Marinos, Engineering Geology and the Environment, volume 1, page 104. From the entry geoecological
  • Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centered.1996, Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry deep ecology
  • To understand the origin of the ecosystem concept, it is important to consider in greater detail Tansley's critical attitude toward Clementsian ecology.1992, Joel Bartholemew Hagen, An Entangled Bank: The Origins of Ecosystem Ecology, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry Clementsian
  • The evolutionary aspect of ecology which has started to develop due to studies of trace fossils will stay long the privilege of paleoichnology.1984, Palaeontology: Proceedings of the 27th International Geological Congress: Invited Papers, Volume 2, International Geological Congress. From the entry paleoichnology
  • If we better understood where these viruses are circulating and understood that ecology, we would have the potential to disrupt and minimize the risk of spillover.2020 March 12, Kevin Berger, “The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming”, in Nautilus, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2020. From the entry spillover
  • Human ecology determines consideration and impact of toxic materials and their concentration present in clothing, taking into account the application areas (kidswear, adultwear, lingerie, home textiles etc.).2020, Yamini Jhanji Dhir, “Sustainable fashion material procurement”, in Rajkishore Nayak, editor, Supply Chain Management and Logistics…. From the entry adultwear
  • "We are unwilded almost from birth," says Marc Bekoff author of Rewilding Our Hearts and professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado in Boulder.2014 November 25, Natalie DiBlasio, quoting Marc Bekoff, “Wild things: More 9-5'ers 'undoing domestication'”, in USA Today, archived from…. From the entry unwild
  • I am not familiar with any detailed studies of the ecology of nectarivores in the brushtongued parrots, meliphagids, and certain marsupial mammals in forests of Australia and New Guinea.2012, James R. Karr, “Chapter 22: Birds”, in H. Lieth, M.J.A. Werger, editors, Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystems: Biogeographical and…. From the entry meliphagid
  • Subjectivity, as a paradoxically transhuman phenomenon of awareness renderred only in ecologies, is rendered into inscriptions and images even as no self is adequate to the report.2011, Richard M. Doyle, Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere, →ISBN. From the entry transhuman
  • "I have always taken the role of public intellectual very, very seriously," said Mark Crispin Miller, 51, a professor of media ecology at New York University.2001 June 13, Chris Hedges, “Public Lives: Watching Bush's Language, and Television”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Oct 2012. From the entry public intellectual

Meaning of ecology

  1. noun The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
  2. noun Any study of the relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
  3. noun The totality or pattern of relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.

Full definition of ecology

Questions about ecology in a sentence

How do you use ecology in a sentence?
Ecology is used as a noun. For example: “In the fifteenth century, he espoused ecology ante litteram. He endorsed ecology before the term "ecology" existed.”
What is a short sentence with ecology?
“Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centered.”
What does ecology mean?
Ecology means the branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.

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