Ecologythe science dealing with the influence of climate on the recurrence of such annual phenomena of animal and plant life as budding and bird migrations.
1880–85; syncopated variant of phenomenology, with restriction to climatic phenomena
phe•no•log•i•cal(fēn′l oj′i kəl),USA pronunciationadj.phe′no•log′i•cal•ly, adv. phe•nol′o•gist, n.