Ecology is the study of how living things interact with each other and with their physical surroundings, including the flow of energy and matter through food webs, populations, and whole ecosystems. The German biologist Ernst Haeckel coined the term oecologie in 1866, though naturalists such as Maria Sibylla Merian had documented ecological relationships between insects and their food plants two centuries earlier. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founded Year Central QuestionHow will the distribution of biodiversity and the balance of ecosystem services respond to accelerating environmental change, including the spread of invasive species? 1 ScopeEcology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their environment, studied across levels from the individual organism to the whole biosphere. 1 SignificanceGerman scientist Ernst Haeckel coined the term ecology in 1866, but the science of ecology as practiced today began with a group of American botanists in the 1890s. Its core divisions, from population and community ecology to ecosystem and behavioral ecology, now underpin the study of biodiversity loss, one of the defining environmental problems of the twenty first century. 1 Ecology
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Haeckel coined the term oecologie in 1866, the year recorded as when the field was founded.
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Source Ecological Succession (Wikipedia)
Source The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and TermsArthur Tansley
Source Animal EcologyCharles Elton
Source Population Ecology (Wikipedia)
Source Fundamentals of EcologyEugene P. Odum
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Source Biodiversity (Wikipedia)
Source Essay on the Geography of PlantsAlexander von Humboldt and Aime Bonpland
Source Animal EcologyCharles Elton
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Ecology (from Ancient Greek oikos house and -logia study of) is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their environment.
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The term ecology (German: Okologie) was coined in 1866 by the German scientist Ernst Haeckel.
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is the natural science which studies the interactions between organisms and their environments
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John D. Hamaker (1914-1994), was an American mechanical engineer, ecologist, agronomist and science writer in the fields of soil regeneration, rock dusting, mineral cycles, climate cycles and glaciology.
Theunis Piersma (Wikipedia)
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Theunis Piersma (born 15 June 1958) is a Dutch ornithologist, ecologist, and educator.
Ecological niche (Wikipedia)
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In ecology, a niche refers to the specific environmental condition occupied by a species or population.
Population Ecology (Wikipedia)
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Population ecology is a field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment, such as birth and death rates, and by immigration and emigration.
Ecological Succession (Wikipedia)
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Ecological succession is the process of how species compositions change in an ecological community over time.
Biogeography (Wikipedia)
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Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and throughout geological time.
Biodiversity (Wikipedia)
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Biodiversity is the variability of life on Earth.
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