Definition of ecological in English:
ecological
adjective ɛkəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)liːkəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l
Relating to or concerned with the relation of living organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
pollution is posing a serious threat to the ecological balance of the oceans
one of the world's worst ecological disasters
Example sentencesExamples
- Juan Carlos launches into a lecture on Bolivia's ecological cosmology.
- Take an inventory of what kind of an impact your life has on Mother Earth - your own personal ecological footprint.
- Therefore, kin recognition should be studied with explicit references to the ecological context within which the recognition behavior is expressed.
- More than 3,000 species of mosquitoes are present on our planet, each occupying a distinct ecological niche.
- All the interbasin transfers in South Africa are potential ecological disasters.
- The Forum brings religious scholars into gatherings where they can explore their relationships to the contemporary ecological crisis.
- The diversity of program interventions addressed all of the factors outlined in the ecological perspective.
- The implications of studying ecological performance for within-species selection studies are profound.
- Free trade between states would also need to be modified to take account of ecological issues.
- Through mutation, genes test different strategies for enhancing ecological survival.
- Researchers attributed the finding to improvements in the ecological environment of the region.
- Economic growth must come to mean sustainable ecological improvement, not ecological destruction.
- The loss of preexisting genes or gene activities during evolution is a major mechanism of ecological specialization.
- In addition, differences among species in their ability to stabilize posture in rolling appear to have ecological implications.
- Every morning Native American tribal leaders filmed their conversations for use in a society which has yet to acquire their ecological awareness.
- The fishing communities bore the economic brunt of the ecological crisis.
- He says he has moved from being a fiscal conservative to being an ecological conservative.
- Flowers occur in a vast range of ecological situations.
- Economic growth has been bought at the expense of ecological disarray.
- The possible ecological significance of the different activity time of the ruddy mongoose has not been studied.