different between palaeoecology vs ecology

English

Etymology

palaeo- +? ecology

Noun

palaeoecology (countable and uncountable, plural palaeoecologies)

1. The study of past ecologies by using the evidence of fossils

Derived terms

• palaeoecological
• palaeoecologist

English

Alternative forms

• oecology, œcology (archaic)

Etymology

Calque of German Ökologie (coined by Ernst Haeckel), from Ancient Greek ????? (oîkos, “house”) + -????? (-logía, “study of”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k?l?d?i/, /??k?l?d?i/
• (US) enPR: ?k?l?j?, IPA^(key): /i.?k?.l?.d?i/
• Hyphenation: ecol?ogy
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

ecology (countable and uncountable, plural ecologies)

1. (biology) The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• ecology block

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of ecology

References

• ecology at OneLook Dictionary Search
• ecology in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "ecology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 110.
• ecology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Further reading

• ecology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia