Ecological

relating to adaptation and natural selection are cornerstones of modern ecological theory. Ecosystems are dynamically interacting systems of organisms, the...

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.: 458  The biotic and abiotic components...

The ecological footprint measures human demand on natural capital, i.e. the quantity of nature it takes to support people and their economies. It tracks...

An ecological pyramid (also trophic pyramid, Eltonian pyramid, energy pyramid, or sometimes food pyramid) is a graphical representation designed to show...

community. The concept of ecological niche is central to ecological biogeography, which focuses on spatial patterns of ecological communities. "Species distributions...

Ecological systems theory is a broad term used to capture the theoretical contributions of developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner. Bronfenbrenner...

Ecological restoration, or ecosystem restoration, is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed...

Ecological design or ecodesign is an approach to designing products and services that gives special consideration to the environmental impacts of a product...

Ecological economics, bioeconomics, ecolonomy, eco-economics, or ecol-econ is both a transdisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of academic research...

Ecological health is a term that has been used in relation to both human health and the condition of the environment. In medicine, ecological health has...

Ecological counseling is an approach that integrates personal and environmental factors to conceptualize human issues by focusing on their interaction...

Ecological succession is the process of change in the species that make up an ecological community over time. The process of succession occurs either after...

Ecological units, comprise concepts such as population, community, and ecosystem as the basic units, which are at the basis of ecological theory and research...

Ecological psychology is the scientific study of perception-action from a direct realist approach. Ecological psychology is a school of psychology that...

In the behavioral sciences, ecological validity is often used to refer to the judgment of whether a given study's variables and conclusions (often collected...

Ecological imperialism is an explanatory concept, introduced by Alfred Crosby, that points out the contribution of European biological species such as...

Ecological empathy, or eco-empathy, is empathy directed towards the natural world. It encompasses empathy directed towards animals, plants, ecosystems...

An ecological fallacy (also ecological inference fallacy or population fallacy) is a formal fallacy in the interpretation of statistical data that occurs...

Ecological classification or ecological typology is the classification of land or water into geographical units that represent variation in one or more...

In epidemiology, ecological studies are used to understand the relationship between outcome and exposure at a population level, where 'population' represents...