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| The study of relations between organisms and their natural environment, living and nonliving. |
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| A group of individuals of the same species living in a given area at a given time. |
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| A group of interacting plants and animals inhabiting a given area. |
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| The biotic community and its abiotic environment functioning as a system. |
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| The structure, function and change in a heterogeneous landscape composed of interacting ecosystems. |
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| A part of the earth characterized by distinctive animal or plant life. |
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| Thin layer about Earth in which all living organisms exist. |
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| A way of understanding the natural world based on the accumulation of observable, testable, and repeatable evidence. |
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| In theoretical and systems ecology, an abstraction or simplificiation of a natural phenomenon, developed to predict a new phenomenon or to provide insight into existing ones; in mimetic association, the organisms mimicked by a different organism. |
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