OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 5945

ecology

/ɪˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ecología
The 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. He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in…
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.