Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to œcology.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective of or pertaining to ecology.

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  • adjective Relating to ecology, the interrelationships of organisms and their environment.
  • adjective not harmful to the environment

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  • adjective of or relating to the science of ecology
  • adjective characterized by the interdependence of living organisms in an environment

Etymologies

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ecology +‎ -ical

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Examples

  • Major international conferences of ecologists and economists have been held since then, many ecological economic institutes have been formed around the world, and a significant number of books have appeared with the term ecological economics in their titles [45].

    An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 2 2007

  • Finally, once we begin to think of human groups of all sorts as like species interacting with each other in an ecosystem -- what I call the ecological/evolutionary paradigm -- we can begin to think more constructively about how to manage between-group interactions, religious and otherwise.

    David Sloan Wilson: Atheism as a Stealth Religion IV: The Transformation of the Obvious 2008

  • In her 2003 book Tucker expresses the optimistic opinion that world religions are entering a second axial age which she calls their ecological phase.

    Religion, nature and environmentalism 2007

  • "The permanent solution is not technology, but what we call ecological separation - or no movement of live organisms between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River via the canals," said Alliance President Joel Brammeier, who co-authored a study on the subject in 2008.

    ENS 2010

  • William Dennison, a scientist at the University of Maryland environmental laboratory near Cambridge, said the bay is at what he called ecological and societal "tipping points."

    Blog updates 2009

  • In addition to editing The One-Straw Revolution, Korn edited the The Future Is Abundant, a Guide to Sustainable Agriculture, and he is well versed in ecological approaches to farming in the Northwest.

    Larry Korn's One-Straw Revolution Northwest Tour 2009

  • In addition to editing The One-Straw Revolution, Korn edited the The Future Is Abundant, a Guide to Sustainable Agriculture, and he is well versed in ecological approaches to farming in the Northwest.

    A Different Stripe: 2009

  • One researcher writes, “Whereas evolutionary biology can rarely predict where any species is going, it does predict that, despite their short-term ecological success, unicolonial ants are an evolutionary dead end.”

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • The usual opinion of local people who are involved in ecological impact studies is that the collected data of Bob's paper in its best known interpretations is flawed by people other than the author and they tend to include many questionable assumptions to gain their goal.

    Do you think that the long term ecological damage caused by exterminating predators or holding them well below their natural pop 2009

  • The usual opinion of local people who are involved in ecological impact studies is that the collected data of Bob's paper in its best known interpretations is flawed by people other than the author and they tend to include many questionable assumptions to gain their goal.

    Do you think that the long term ecological damage caused by exterminating predators or holding them well below their natural pop 2009

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