Disciplines and Occupations

Ecology

The branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their ENVIRONMENT, especially as manifested by natural cycles and rhythms, community development and structure, interactions between different kinds of organisms, geographic distributions, and population alterations. (Webster's, 3d ed)

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Abstract

The branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their ENVIRONMENT, especially as manifested by natural cycles and rhythms, community development and structure, interactions between different kinds of organisms, geographic distributions, and population alterations. (Webster's, 3d ed)

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2 entry terms
  • Ecologies
  • Bionomics

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12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

the discipline (education, history, etc) only; use ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA or specifics treed under it for characteristics and processes of ecological and environmental systems

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  1. H01w.158w.273w.248w
  2. H01w.277w.249w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Ecology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004463. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004463
  2. Ecology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology
  3. Ecology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7150