e·col·o·gy

(ĭ-kŏl′ə-jē)

n. pl. e·col·o·gies

a. The science of the relationships between organisms and their environments.

b. The relationship between organisms and their environment.

[German Ökologie : Greek oikos, house; see weik- in Indo-European roots + German -logie, study (from Greek -logiā, -logy).]

ec′o·log′i·cal (ĕk′ə-lŏj′ĭ-kəl, ē′kə-), ec′o·log′ic (-ĭk) adj.

ec′o·log′i·cal·ly adv.

e·col′o·gist n.

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ecological

(ˌiːkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl) or

ecologic

adj

1. (Environmental Science) of or relating to ecology

2. (Environmental Science) (of a practice, policy, product, etc) tending to benefit or cause minimal damage to the environment

ˌecoˈlogically adv

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	ecological - characterized by the interdependence of living organisms in an environment; "an ecological disaster" ecologic
	2.	ecological - of or relating to the science of ecology; "ecological research" bionomic, bionomical, ecologic biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms

ecological

adjective environmental, green ecological disasters such as the destruction of the rainforest

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Translations

بيئيبِيئيّ

ekologický

økologisk

ekologinen

ekološki

ökológiai

vistfræîilegur

ecologico

生態学の

생태학의

ekološki

ekologisk

เกี่ยวกับนิเวศวิทยา

ekolojikçevreye ait

thuộc sinh thái học

生态学的生态的

ecological

[ˌiːkəʊˈlɒdʒɪkəl] ADJ → ecológico

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ecological

[ˌiːkəˈlɒdʒɪk^əl] adj

[disaster] → écologique; [balance] → écologique

[group, movement] → écologiste

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ecological

adj problem, balance, impact → ökologisch; ecological disaster → Umweltkatastrophe f; ecological damage → Umweltschäden pl; ecological system → Ökosystem nt; ecological group → Umweltorganisation f; ecological party → Umweltpartei f

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ecological

[ˌiːkəʊˈlɒdʒɪk/əl] adj → ecologico/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

ecology

(iˈkolədʒi) noun

(the study of) living things considered in relation to their environment. Pollution has a disastrous effect on the ecology of a region.

eˈcologist noun

ˌecoˈlogical (iː-) adjective

ˌecoˈlogically adverb

ecological

→ بِيئيّ ekologický økologisk ökologisch οικολογικός ecológico ekologinen écologique ekološki ecologico 生態学の 생태학의 ecologisch økologisk ekologiczny ecológico экологический ekologisk เกี่ยวกับนิเวศวิทยา ekolojik thuộc sinh thái học 生态的

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I share this past work with you to illustrate an ecological fallacy. What might be generally true about executive directors (i.e., they are not subject matter experts), might not be true at the individual level.

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Also, as with most epidemiological studies, we cannot rule out the role that ecological fallacy may play where the population average may not be appropriate in estimating an individual's risk of mortality."

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Although the authors state that there is no risk of a possible ecological fallacy, it is obvious that most conclusions were obtained with data analysis of population-level records, which exceed individual conclusions (10).

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He prefers his neologism to the more well-known "ecological fallacy" because without this fallacy, "most epidemiologists, especially those employed by the government, would be out of a job." It is also richer than the ecological fallacy because it occurs whenever an epidemiologist says "X causes Y" but never measures X.

Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics

To put it bluntly, this book falls in an ecological fallacy that places the horse before the cart.

Acemoglu, Daron & James R. Robinson. Why Nations Fail: the origins of power, prosperity and poverty

The general reader is taken 'behind the scenes' as it were, for a concise account of the necessity of geo-rectifying historic maps, an explanation of the dangers of the 'ecological fallacy' and a discussion of the decisions which must be made in order to produce a thematic (choropleth) map.

Muiris De Buitleir, A Portrait of Dublin in Maps: History, Geography, People, Society

The ecological fallacy and the gender ratio of suicide in China.

Changing the focus of suicide research in China from rural to urban communities

(2012) pointed out in their conclusion, there is a "possibility of an adverse effect of high fluoride exposure on children's neurodevelopment." Such a conclusion can be considered an ecological fallacy, which can easily lead to mis interpretation of the results.

Developmental fluoride neurotoxicity: clinical importance versus statistical significance

To avoid the ecological fallacy, we restricted our inferences to the school level.

Exploring school oral health outcomes and neighbourhood factors in schools participating in Ontario's "Healthy Schools" recognition program

However, ecological studies have two major limitations: firstly, not all those who develop the disease of interest will necessarily have been exposed to the risk factor being investigated, which is called the ecological fallacy; and secondly, confounding cannot always be taken into account, which can give misleading results.

Ecological determinants of blindness in Nigeria: The Nigeria National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey

The three major branches--continuous spatial variation, discrete spatial variation, and spatial point patterns--provide the core of the work, but other sections cover the history, spatio-temporal processes, and additional topics such as multi-variate spatial process models and spatial aggregation and the ecological fallacy.

Handbook of spatial statistics

The criticisms are not new: Durkheim hypothesized a "suicidogenic current" that represented the society's "essence," he "drove a wedge between sociology and medical psychology," "elided the diversity of motives" in order to show that suicide is a social fact, "single-mindedly" dismissed case files, and failed to offer a "testable theory." Most importantly, Durkheim fell for the "ecological fallacy," making assumptions about the "nature of individuals" based on the communities in which they lived, presuming that "all members of a group exhibit characteristics of that particular group at large" (p.

John C. Weaver, A Sadly Troubled History: The Meanings of Suicide in the Modern Age