ecology

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Alternative forms

• œcology (archaic)

Etymology

From German Ökologie, from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oikos, “house”) + -λογία (-logia, “study of”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɪ.ˈkɒlə.dʒɪ/, X-SAMPA: /I."kQ.l@.dZI/
• (US) enPR: ĕkŏlŏjĕ, IPA: /i.ˈkɑ.lə.dʒi/, X-SAMPA: /i."kA.l@.dZi/

Noun

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.

   • 2012 January 1, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, 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.

Derived terms

agroecology autecology chemical ecology dendroecology ecology block ethnoecology geoecology hydroecology macroecology

myrmecology palaeoecology paleoecology photoecology radioecology restoration ecology social ecology socioecology synecology

Related terms

• eco-
• ecological
• ecologist
• ecosystem
• ecotribe

Translations

branch of biology

• Afrikaans: ekologië (af)
• Albanian: ekologji (sq) f
• Arabic: علم البيئة (ar) (ʿilm al-bīʾa) m
• Aragonese: ecolochía (an) f
• Armenian: բնապահպանություն (hy) (bnapahpanutyun) 
• Belarusian: экалогія (be) (ekalóhija) f 
• Breton: ekoloji (br) f
• Bulgarian: екология (bg) (ekologija) f 
• Catalan: ecologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 生態 (saang1taai3)

  Mandarin: 生態 (cmn), 生态 (cmn) (shēngtài), 生態學 (cmn), 生态学 (cmn) (shēngtàixué)

• Czech: ekologie (cs) f
• Danish: økologi (da) c
• Dutch: ecologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: ekologio (eo)
• Estonian: ökoloogia (et)
• Finnish: ekologia (fi), ympäristötiede (fi)
• French: écologie (fr) f
• Galician: ecoloxía (gl) f
• Georgian: ეკოლოგია (ka) (ekologia) 
• German: Ökologie (de) f

  Alemannic German: Ökologie f

• Greek: οικολογία (el) (oikología) f 
• Hebrew: אקולוגיה (he) (ekologyia) f
• Hindi: पारिस्थितिकी (hi) (pāristhitikī)
• Hungarian: ökológia (hu)
• Icelandic: vistifræði (is) n
• Ido: ekologio (io)
• Indonesian: ekologi (id)
• Interlingua: ecologia (ia)
• Irish: éiceolaíocht (ga) f
• Italian: ecologia (it) f
• Japanese: 生態学 (ja) (せいたいがく, seitaigaku)
• Jèrriais: écologie f

• Khmer: បរិស្ថានវិទ្យា (km) (bɑɑrestʰaan vityie), និវេសនវិទ្យា (km) (niveih vityie)
• Korean: 생태학 (ko) (sangdae-hak) (生態學 (ko))
• Latin: oecologia (la) f
• Latvian: ekoloģija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: ekologija (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Ökologie (lb) f
• Macedonian: екологија (mk) (ekológija) f
• Malay:

  Rumi: kaji alam hayat (ms), ekologi (ms)

  Jawi: کاجي عالم حيات (ms), ايکولوݢي (ms)

• Norwegian: økologi (no) m
• Occitan: ecologia (oc) f
• Persian: بوم‌شناسی (fa) (bum-šenâsi)
• Polish: ekologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ecologia (pt) f
• Romanian: ecologie (ro) f
• Russian: экология (ru) (ekológija) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: eag-eòlas (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: екологија (sh) f

  Roman: ekologija (sh) f

• Sindhi: سَهِجِياڀياس (sd)
• Slovak: ekológia (sk) f
• Slovene: ekologija (sl) f
• Spanish: ecología (es) f
• Sundanese: ékologi (su)
• Swedish: ekologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: ekolohiya (tl)
• Tajik: экология (tg) (ekologiya)
• Thai: นิเวศวิทยา (th) (níwêt wíttáyaa)
• Turkish: ekologi (tr)
• Ukrainian: екологія (uk) (ekolóhija) f 
• Vietnamese: sinh thái học (vi) (生態學 (vi))
• Volapük: köolog (vo)
• Welsh: ecoleg (cy) f

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Translations to be checked

• Corsican: ekologia?
• Sardinian: ecologia? f

• Sicilian: ecologia? f

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of ecology