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autecology|ɔːtiːˈkɒlədʒɪ| [ad. G. autökologie (Schröter, 1898), f. auto-1 + ecology.] The study of the ecology of an individual plant or species, opp. synecology. Hence ˌautecoˈlogical a.
1910Flahault & Schrȫter 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). 1926H. H. Allen in Tansley & Chipp Aims & Methods Stud. Veg. xxii. 370 The high-mountain vegetation provides, further, much valuable material for autecological work. 1932Fuller & Conard tr. Braun-Blanquet's Plant Sociol. v. 81 The chief interests of most ecologists have centred in autecology, the life relations of the individual plant. |