Autecology

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The branch of ecology that deals with the biological relationship between an individual organism or an individual species and its environment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. one of two broad subdivisions of ecology, which studies the individual organism or species.
  • Word Usage
    "Accelerating research on the sustainability of forestry operations in the basin (including autecology – the characteristics of individual species, the life history of commercial species, regeneration dynamics)."
    Cross Reference
    synecology