Ecology

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-002027",
  "term": "Ecology",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A branch of science concerned with the interrelationships of organisms and their cycles and rhythms, community development and environments-especially as manifested by natural structure, interaction between different kinds of organisms, geographic distributions, and population alterations.",
  "synonyms": [
    "bionomics",
    "macroecology"
  ],
  "subject": "Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment",
  "see_also": [
    "industrial ecology",
    "ecophysiology",
    "ecological genetics",
    "environment",
    "ecologists",
    "human ecology",
    "population ecology",
    "trophic relationships",
    "community ecology",
    "microbial ecology",
    "ecological zones",
    "plant ecology",
    "soil ecology",
    "ecomorphology",
    "applied ecology",
    "environmental knowledge",
    "nutritional ecology",
    "ecotones",
    "ecological processes and phenomena",
    "fire ecology",
    "forest ecology",
    "landscape ecology",
    "paleoecology",
    "agroecology",
    "ecosystems",
    "chemical ecology",
    "animal ecology"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Schwarz, Charles F.; Thor, Edward C.; Elsner, Gary H. 1976. Wildland planning glossary. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-13. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "ecología"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/ecology/"
}