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The relationship of living things to one another and their environment, or the study of such relationships.
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The word "ecology" is often used in common parlance as a synonym for the natural environment or environmentalism.
Ecology is essentially the study of the workings of the planet Earth.
Ecology, or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how these properties are affected by interactions between the organisms and their environment. The environment of an organism includes both the physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors like 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; the word is derived from the Greek oikos ("household") and logos ("study")-therefore, "ecology" means the "study of the household of nature".
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