autecologyn.
/ɔːtiːˈkɒlədʒi/ The study of the ecology of an individual plant or species, opposed to synecology n.
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ecology1875
hexiology1880
bionomics1888
human ecology1907
autecology1910
synecology1910
bioecology1923
genecology1923
socioecology1952
radioecology1956
deep ecology1972
1910 Flahault & Schröter Phytogeogr. Nomencl. (IIIrd Internat. Bot. Congr.) 24 Oecology thus includes the study of the habitat conditions and the adaptation-phenomena of the single species (Autecology).
1932 G. D. Fuller & H. S. Conard tr. J. Braun-Blanquet Plant Sociol. v. 81 The chief interests of most ecologists have centred in autecology, the life relations of the individual plant.
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ˌautecoˈlogical adj.
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ecological1879
bionomic1890
bionomical1890
ecologic1894
synecological1906
autecological1926
socioecological1936
ecogeographic1951
radioecological1952
socioecologic1970
1926 H. H. Allen in A. G. Tansley & T. F. Chipp Aims & Methods Study of Vegetation xxii. 370 The high-mountain vegetation provides, further, much valuable material for autecological work.
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