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au·te·col·o·gy

 (ô′tĭ-kŏl′ə-jē)
n.
The branch of ecology that deals with the biological relationship between an individual organism or an individual species and its environment.

au′te·co·log′i·cal (-kə-lŏj′ĭ-kəl) adj.
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autecology

(ˌɔːtɪˈkɒlədʒɪ)
n
(Environmental Science) the ecological study of an individual organism or species. Compare synecology
ˌautecoˈlogical adj
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aut•e•col•o•gy

(ˌɔ təˈkɒl ə dʒɛ)

n.
the ecological study of an individual organism or species.
[1905–10]
aut•ec•o•log•ic (ˌɔt ɛk əˈlɒdʒ ɪk, -i kə-) aut`ec•o•log′i•cal, adj.
aut`ec•o•log′i•cal•ly, adv.
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autecology

the branch of ecology that studies the relation of an organism to its environment. Cf. synecology.
See also: Biology
the study of an individual organism, or the species regarded collectively, in relation to environment. — autecologic, autecological, adj.
See also: Environment
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Translations
autekologija
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This study re-emphasizes the need and immense utilitarian value of undertaking and completing more autecological research on threatened species after Deysel (2016) and Deysel et al.
This pattern seems to be related to the autecological characteristics of the species on a local scale (Rejou-Mechain et al., 2011) and may be a consequence of the dispersal limitation (Condit et al., 2000; Seidler & Plotkin, 2006).
Indeed, his language seems to almost mirror those of the liberals, when he states, 'the collection of species that exist in a particular place is a matter of historical accident and species-specific autecological requirements' (Soule 1990: 234).
The contribution of autecological and genecological studies to our knowledge of the past migrations of plants.
In view of this, it is somewhat surprising that the editors in the concluding chapter maintain that the challenges associated with developing a scientific knowledge base for adaptive management of NTFPs can be solved if only more financial resources are committed towards inventories and autecological studies.
It covers plants and abiotic factors of the environment, a more complete autecological perspective, system-level interactions, the transition to sustainability, and bringing about a sustainable world food system.
We present the first climate-related autecological study for the facultatively riparian plant, Glycyrrhiza lepidota (Fabaceae; American licorice), a nitrogen (N)-fixing [C.sub.3] herb widespread in the United States, southern Canada, and northern Mexico (United States Department of Agriculture, plants database, http://plants.usda.gov).
Chaoborus flavicans (Meigen)(Diptera, Chaoboridae), an autecological study.
However, it is not fully clear how far into the extracted peatlands the propagules could be carried, how much the re-vegetation is influenced by the type of the adjacent vegetated areas, and how much the germination of the arriving propagules and the survival of plants depend on the growth conditions or on autecological differences between plant species.
Algal Attributes: an autecological classification of algal taxa collected by the National Water-Quality Assessment Program.