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Concept information
Preferred term
ecology
Type
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Topic
Definition
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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.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- agroecology
- animal ecology
- applied ecology
- chemical ecology
- community ecology
- ecological processes and phenomena
- ecological zones
- ecomorphology
- ecosystems
- ecotones
- environmental knowledge
- fire ecology
- forest ecology
- landscape ecology
- microbial ecology
- nutritional ecology
- paleoecology
- plant ecology
- population ecology
- soil ecology
- trophic relationships
Synonyms
- bionomics
- macroecology
In other languages
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Spanish
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/352
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