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Preferred Term:
ecology
Definition:
A branch of science concerned with the interrelationships of organisms and their cycles and rhythms, community development and environments-especially as manifested by natural structure, interaction between different kinds of organisms, geographic distributions, and population alterations.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Core
NALT Full
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
Narrower Concepts:
- ecotones
- ecological zones
- plant ecology
- microbial ecology
- community ecology
- paleoecology
- landscape ecology
- population ecology
- ecological processes and phenomena
- ecosystems
- fire ecology
- agroecology
- soil ecology
- trophic relationships
- environmental knowledge
- animal ecology
- applied ecology
- ecomorphology
- forest ecology
- nutritional ecology
- chemical ecology
Entry Terms:
- bionomics
- macroecology
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/352
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