Ecology, or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how the distribution and abundance are affected by interactions between the organisms and their environment. The environment of an organism includes both physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors such as solar insolation, climate and geology, as well as the other organisms that share its habitat. The term oekologie was coined in 1866 by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel, although it seems that Henry David Thoreau had already invented it in 1852 "Revisiting the Natural Contract", by Michel Serres, in Ctheory, May 11, 2006 ; the word is derived from the Greek οικος (oikos, "household") and λόγος (logos, "study"); therefore "ecology" means the "study of the household nature".

The word "ecology" is often used in common parlance as a synonym for the natural environment or environmentalism. Likewise "ecologic" or "ecological" is often taken in the sense of environmentally friendly.

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Ecology is usually considered a branch of biology, the general science that studies living organisms. Organisms can be studied at many different levels, from proteins and nucleic acids (in biochemistry and molecular biology), to cells (in cellular biology), to individuals (in botany, zoology, and other similar disciplines), and finally at the level of populations, communities, and ecosystems, to the biosphere as a whole; these latter strata are the primary subjects of ecological inquiries. Ecology is a multi-disciplinary science. Because of its focus on the higher levels of the organization of life on earth and on the interrelations between organisms and their environment, ecology draws heavily on many other branches of science, especially geology and geography, meteorology, pedology, chemistry, and physics. Thus, ecology is considered by some to be a holistic science, one that over-arches older disciplines such as biology which in this view become sub-disciplines contributing to ecological knowledge.

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Ecology class it was fun hahahaha
isa_mariaJonas (Isa_maria) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:40:29 -0000
Ecology class it was fun hahahaha
Will do a broadcast on the Sunday Programme tomorrow. About faith and ecology. On about 7.40. Tune in if you are up.
TonyJuniper (Tony Juniper) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:39:39 -0000
Will do a broadcast on the Sunday Programme tomorrow. About faith and ecology. On about 7.40. Tune in if you are up.
The "ecology of education and science... is being strangled by copyright-law principles based on exclusivity": http://is.gd/4PBlL
Edubeat (edubeat) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:38:41 -0000
The "ecology of education and science... is being strangled by copyright-law principles based on exclusivity": http://is.gd/4PBlL
Aaaand another mochachocaloca- very good for concentration of working on Ecology woop :D
n_power (Nichola Power) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:10:54 -0000
Aaaand another mochachocaloca- very good for concentration of working on Ecology woop :D
Now playing "Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)" by "Marvin Gaye"
covefm (Cove FM) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:06:10 -0000
Now playing "Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)" by "Marvin Gaye"
はーい明日(日曜) です！RT @ECO_ECO_Ecology: 明日やってるでいいんだよね？ お散歩がてら行こうかと RT 日曜は、ファーマーズマーケットへ！清里ミルクの試飲のほか、産地直送野菜あり http://www.farmersmarkets.jp/
UNFPA_Tokyo (国連人口基金東京事務所) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:49:50 -0000
はーい明日(日曜) です！RT @ECO_ECO_Ecology: 明日やってるでいいんだよね？ お散歩がてら行こうかと RT 日曜は、ファーマーズマーケットへ！清里ミルクの試飲のほか、産地直送野菜あり http://www.farmersmarkets.jp/

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