Ecology
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Ecology is the study of how organisms and their environments interact with each other. As such, it draws mostly from biology, but also from chemistry, physics, and many other scientific fields.
In popular parlance, ecology is often confused with environmentalism. While most of the insights of ecology are important in the environmental movement, the two words are not synonymous.
The term developed from Ökologie, first used in 1873 by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel. In turn, Ökologie comes from the Greek oikos (house or dwelling) plus logia (study of).[1]
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- ↑ Dictionary.com, "ecology," from Online Etymology Dictionary.
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