ECOLOGY

Ecology is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their environment.





Likewise "ecologic" or "ecological" is often taken in the sense of environmentally friendly.



The term ecology or oekologie was coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1866, when he defined it as "the comprehensive science of the relationship of the organism to the environment.

Fundamental principles of ecology:

Biosphere

Region

Landscape

Ecosystem

Community

Interactions

Population

Individual

Disciplines of ecology

Ecology is a broad discipline comprising many sub-disciplines. A common, broad classification, moving from lowest to highest complexity, where complexity is defined as the number of entities and processes in the system under study, is:

Ecophysiology

Behavioral ecology

Population ecology

Community ecology

Ecosystem ecology

Systems ecology

Landscape ecology

Evolutionary ecology

Political ecology

the information is from:

- wikipedia
-http://www.esapubs.org/esapubs/journals/ecology.htm