ecologist
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- noun
- /ɪˈkɑlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
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ecólogo
- Josh Donlan, a well-known ecologist, published a paper on the importance of biodiversity in maintaining ecosystem health.
- behavioral ecologists
- tropical ecologists
- ecologists study ecosystems
Examples
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In 1948, U.S. ecologist, forester, and environmentalist Aldo Leopold penned this lament:
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To understand community organization, both tropical and temperate ecologists have relied heavily on the concept of the niche.
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Put on the lenses of an ecologist and this is what you would see.
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I am a behavioral ecologist interested in sexual selection and mate choice.
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But let's just review how ecologists learn about how systems work.
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"The project has been an enormous undertaking," says ecologist Charlie Cooper.
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Ecosystem services have not been fully considered in the past, says ecologist Peter Kareiva, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy.
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We have also shown that annual C storage changes over ecological succession, as hypothesized by ecologists decades ago.
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For example, native population extinctions attributable to invasions are rare but of great concern to ecologists.
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Jennifer Harden, an ecologist with the US Geological Survey, is also studying carbon flux in Alaskan permafrost.
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Synonyms
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A scientist who studies living things and where and how they live
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ecologist comes from the Greek root oikos meaning 'house', shown in the prefix eco-, the same root you see in economy, and the ending -logist means 'person who studies'. So an ecologist studies the 'house' where living things live — their environment and how they depend on each other.