oligosaprobic

(ecology) Relating to, or inhabiting a body of water containing some decomposing organic matter and thus only a little dissolved oxygen


shiftogram

(ecology) A graphical representation of the movement of populations


chemoecologist

(ecology) An ecologist whose speciality is chemoecology


ecoclimate

(ecology) The climate (or, more often, the microclimate) of a particular habitat


ecogroup

(ecology) A group of organisms that share the same ecosystem


geoecological

Unlike the landscape ecology as K. Troll (1972) calls it - geoecology, the objects of researches in the marine geoecology are the geoecological systems of oceans and seas (SGES) of all levels and scales.

1997, Paul G. Marinos, Engineering Geology and the Environment, volume 1, page 104:

(geology, ecology) Relating to geoecology.


bathytype

(biology, ecology) A marine ecotype that lives at a specific depth


ecohydrodynamics

(ecology) The hydrodynamics of an ecosystem


ecophylogenetics

(ecology) The phylogenetics of the organisms of an ecosystem


fringing reef

(oceanography) A completely shallow coral reef adjacent to a coast.


hyperdominance

(ecology) The condition of being hyperdominant


hyperdominant

(ecology) Very dominant (typically being the species that accounts for more than half of a population)


ecoplastic

(ecology) Able to adapt to a changing environment


ecoplasticity

(ecology) The condition of being ecoplastic


ecoregionalization

en-noun

ecoregionalization (countable and uncountable, plural ecoregionalizations)

(ecology) The formation of, or division into ecoregions


ecorehabilitation

(ecology) rehabilitation of an ecosystem, typically in order to save an important threatened species


eclector

(ecology) Any of various devices used to collect samples of insects resident in a particular location


photoeclector

(ecology) An eclector fitted with a light that is used to attract insects


ecopassage

A passageway allowing wildlife to safely bypass infrastructure (such as roads) and human settlements.


halobiotic

(ecology) That lives in the sea or salt water.


ecoprovince

(ecology) A subdivision of an ecozone that is larger than an ecoregion


supertramp

In all aspects of its distribution, ecology and reproduction, the pearly-eye is a classic example of an avian "supertramp." It is a highly vagile species and a good disperser, with a propensity to fill vacant or under-exploited niches.

2006, Wayne J. Arendt, “Adaptation of an avian supertramp: Distribution, ecology and life-history strategy of the pearly-eyed thrasher (Margarops fuscatus)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), USDA, Forest Service:

(ecology) A species of organism that disperses widely and is not adapted to any specific environment.


eDNA

environmental DNA
environmental DNA#English

(ecology) Initialism of environmental DNA.


genodeme

(ecology) A population of genetically identical organisms


leaf litter

Dead plant material, such as fallen leaves, bark, and twigs, that has fallen to the ground and may be used by animals as habitat or for nest-building, eventually decomposing and releasing nutrients into the soil.

fullaraca

dead plant material, such as fallen leaves, bark, and twigs


zonobiome

(ecology) The group of biomes constituting a particular ecozone.


anthropopressure

(ecology) pressure due to the presence of people or habitation


micropopulation

(ecology) A population of organisms within a microregion


microlandscape

(ecology) A very small landscape, especially one that has been artificially constructed


subhabitat

(ecology) A distinct component of a habitat


cryophilia

(ecology) A tendency to thrive at low temperatures.


stenovalent

(ecology, of an organism) Restricted to few types of environment


IBI

IBI (countable and uncountable, plural IBIs)

(ecology) Initialism of index of biological integrity.


standing crop

(ecology, agriculture) The total dried biomass of the living organisms present in a given environment.


bioresilience

(ecology) The ability of a whole species or an individual of a species to adapt to change.


blue carbon

(ecology) Carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere by the world's coastal ocean ecosystems.

carbon glas

carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere by the ocean


herbfield

(ecology) A plant community dominated by herbaceous plants, especially forbs and grasses.


windwatt

(ecology) A mudflat exposed as a result of wind action on water.


photoenvironment

(ecology) An environment that has a particular level of light


afroalpine

(ecology) Relating to the climates of the higher African mountains


borealization

(ecology) Conversion to the ecology of a typical northern coniferous forest


ecophase

(biology, ecology) An ecological phase (in the life of an organism)


ecosystematist

(ecology) A biologist whose speciality is ecosystems


FFR

iFR

instantaneous wave-free ratio; instant flow reserve

(ecology) Abbreviation of free-flowing river.


xenodiversity

(ecology) Diversity due to the presence of "foreign" organisms.


epedaphic

(ecology) That lives on or above the ground


coenocline

From Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common”) plus Ancient Greek κλίνω (klínō, “to lean”).

(ecology) A gradient of organisms (typically plants) from the base to the summit of a hill or mountain


oxythermal

(ecology, of a water environment) warm and rich in oxygen


zoosphere

zoosphere (countable and uncountable, plural zoospheres)

[…] this mode of selection does not seem to apply to the zoosphere of the investigated Antarctic sediments.

1988, Wolfgang Reichardt, “Impact of the Antarctic Benthic Fauna on the Enrichment of Biopolymer Degrading Psychrophilic Bacteria”, in Microbial Ecology, volume 15, number 3, page 319:

(ecology) A layer in which animals are present.


geoecosystem

(geology, ecology) An ecosystem associated with a particular geological niche


cryosere

Colonization of mosses on glaciers, although unusual, is considered the earliest stage in a cryosere which regionally terminates in the development of hemlock forest.

1972, Calvin J. Heusser, “Polsters of the moss Drepanocladus berggrenii on Gilkey Glacier, Alaska”, in Torreya, volume 99, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 34–36:

These colonies of mosses invading the glacier surface appear to represent the earliest stages of a lithosere or, more precisely, a cryosere.

2014, James H. Dickson, Robert E. Johnson, “Mosses and the beginning of plant succession on the Walker Glacier, southeastern Alaska”, in Lindbergia, volume 37, number 2, →DOI, pages 60–65:

(ecology, rare) A sere originating when moss colonizes ice.


ecodistance

(mathematics, ecology) The difference in value of two related ecological variables


definitive host

definitive host (plural definitive hosts)

Cats are the definitive host of Toxoplasma gondii.

They remain within the intermediate host until it is eaten by the definitive host.

2002, Jack Chernin, Parasitology, →ISBN, page 14:

(ecology) The host in which a parasite reproduces sexually.


hydroecoregion

(ecology) An ecoregion composed of water (typically a river or lake)


ecocapitalism

For some, ecocapitalism is inherently a contradiction in terms. […] However, for free market enthusiasts, capitalism would remain largely unchanged in ecocapitalism.

2011, “Ecocapitalism”, in Dustin Mulvaney, editor, Green Politics: An A-to-Z Guide, SAGE, →ISBN, page 111:

He’s recently been hanging out with renowned investor Warren Buffet’s son, Howard, on a combine harvester in Iowa. (“A great guy. He really gets soil!”) This won’t do much to calm the greens who accuse him of a brand of eco-capitalism.

2014 August 20, Lucy Siegle, “Patrick Holden: 'People’s image of farming is a complete fantasy'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(politics, ecology) The philosophy that market-based methods can solve environmental and ecological problems, through government policy.


biospherics

(biology, ecology) The study of biospheres


boreomontane

(ecology) Alternative form of boreo-montane


boreo-montane

Conflicting mitochondrial and nuclear phylogeographic signals and evolution of host-plant shifts in the boreo-montane leaf beetle Chrysomela lapponica

2010, paper title in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution volume 61https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.09.001

(ecology) Occupying both boreal and montane habitats.


bioconnectivity

(biology, ecology) connectivity between ecosystems


ecobiological

(ecology, biology) ecological and biological


pseudosink

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(ecology) A habitat that appears to be a sink due to its high immigration rate, but which could support a smaller stable population in the absence of immigration.


oligocratic

Significantly, his pollen deposits reveal the conditions both in the oligocratic and the telocratic .

1982, John D. Hamaker, Donald A. Weaver, The Survival of Civilization Depends Upon Our Solving Three Problems, page 64:

During the first part of the oligocratic stage, leaching of brown soils produces acid podzols that favour coniferous woodlands and heaths.

2004, Richard John Huggett, Fundamentals of Biogeography, page 319:

Carpinus (hornbeam) behaved much more strongly as an oligocratic species than before; its pollen frequency not rising until quite late in the stage.

2012, M. Ingrouille, Historical Ecology of the British Flora, page 76:

Palaeoenvironmental evidence from northwest Europe indicates that the oligocratic phase of the interglacial cycle (Fig. 3.1) had begun by ca. 5K years BP.

2014, Antoinette Mannion, Global Environmental Change, page 71:

(ecology) The third and penultimate stage of interglacial forest development (Late-Temperate), characterized by shade-tolerant species that tolerate leaching of the soil.


mycodiversity

(ecology) The diversity of fungi in a particular environment.


greenwater

(ecology) Alternative form of green water


ecoevolution

ecoevolution (countable and uncountable, plural ecoevolutions)

evolutionary biology
evolutionary biology

(ecology) evolutionary ecology (the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology)


phagomimetic

(ecology) Pertaining to phagomimicry; pertaining something that which is not food but which stimulates the feeding response.


phagomimicry

(ecology) The mimicking of food to the extent that it will generate a feeding response.


subxeric

(ecology, of an environment) Extremely dry


clisere

(ecology) The turnover of environmental conditions in a specific habitat throughout a period of climate change, whether natural or man-made.


polyclimax

polyclimax (countable and uncountable, plural polyclimaxes)

(ecology) The presence of multiple vegetational climaxes in the same ecosystem


Wood Wide Web

If so, did Voyria have anything to give back to their fungal partners in exchange, or were they just parasites — hackers of the Wood Wide Web?

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 23:

(ecology) Mycorrhizal networks, that is networks of fungi that connect trees, collectively.


wallum

wallum (countable and uncountable, plural wallums)

A coastal ecosystem in Queensland, Australia.


ecovalence

(ecology) A measure of the interaction of a genotype and its environment


refaunation

refaunation (countable and uncountable, plural refaunations)

(ecology) The reintroduction of animals into an environment (following a previous defaunation)


biodiversity hotspot

biodiversity hotspot (plural biodiversity hotspots)

From biodiversity + hotspot. The word hotspot to describe such regions appears to have been first used by the British environmentalist Norman Myers (1934–2019) in a 1988 article in The Environmentalist.

Conservationists are far from able to assist all species under threat, if only for lack of funding. This places a premium on priorities: how can we support the most species at the least cost? One way is to identify ‘biodiversity hotspots’ where exceptional concentrations of endemic species are undergoing exceptional loss of habitat.

2000 February 24, Norman Myers, Russell A[lan] Mittermeier, Cristina G[oettsch] Mittermeier, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Jennifer Kent, “Biodiversity Hotspots for Conservation Priorities”, in Nature, volume 403, number 6772, London: Nature Research, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, abstract, page 853:

(ecology) A place with a significant level of biodiversity, particularly if the flora and fauna are threatened with loss of their habitat.

Norman Myers
Springer Science+Business Media

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edge effect

(ecology) A change in population or community structures that occurs at the boundary of two or more habitats.


managed retreat

managed retreat (plural managed retreats)

Other methods under investigation, for situations where managed retreat is not an option, include building up offshore banks […]

1991 October 14, Fiona McWilliam, “Major crack-down on established defences”, in Construction Weekly, volume 4, number 38, page 15:

The groyne proposal was put forward by a group of residents opposed to managed retreat.

2011 October 27, Marty Sharpe, “Residents may have to quit Haumoana homes”, in Stuff, retrieved 2021-09-03:

Ewing thinks this type of managed retreat will become more common as people start to understand the onerous cost of relentless nourishment.

2017 April 18, “Sunken Pleasure”, in Scientific American:

The coordinated ending of coastal development; abandonment, demolition, and relocation of human-made structures; and migration of people away from a shoreline that is allowed to migrate inland.


eco hotel

(ecology) An environmentally sustainable hotel or accommodation that has made important environmental improvements to its structure in order to minimize its impact on the natural environment.


low-impact

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Carry a reusable water-bottle for a low-impact hiking experience.

(ecology) That seeks to minimize possible environmental impact.

a basso impatto

that seeks to minimize environmental impact


endocommensalism

endocommensalism (countable and uncountable, plural endocommensalisms)

(ecology) commensalism in which one organism is inside of the other. An example is a bird living in the hollow of a tree.


EPEAT

EPEAT (countable and uncountable, plural EPEATs)

w:Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool

(ecology) Initialism of Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool.


cobenefit

It is clear from the table that water projects can lead to several climate cobenefits and climate projects can lead to a range of water cobenefits.

2014, Sangam Shrestha, Mukand S. Babel, Vishnu Prasad Pandey, Climate Change and Water Resources, page 228:

A cobenefit of reducing coal reliance would be a reduction in local particulate levels in China.

2019, Matthew E. Kahn, Siqi Zheng, Blue Skies Over Beijing, page 226:

An immediate environmental benefit resulting from longer-term environmental policy.


cryptozoa

From crypto- + zoa, coined by English zoologist Arthur Dendy.

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(ecology) Small animals who live in darkness and under conditions of high relative humidity.


cryptosphere

The teeming multitudes are to be found hidden in the soil, or beneath the debris that covers much of the earth's surface. The latter environment, the cryptosphere, provides a series of microhabitats that link their inhabitants with the environment in which they evolved many millions of years ago.

2020 [1975], John Cloudsley-Thompson, Terrestrial Environments, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22:


apodemic

From Ancient Greek ἀπόδημος (apódēmos) + -ic, from ἀπο- (apo-, “away from”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “country, people”).
Apparently, in the travel sense, coined by German-language authors in the sixteenth century.

(ecology, rare) Not endemic; found both inside a particular region and outside it (regardless of origin).


woodjam

Straining against the last light, I finally got it tied on and tossed it out to the top of the woodjam.

1977, Harmon Henkin, The Complete Fisherman's Catalog, page 65:

[…] to treat potential chronic and catastrophic sedimentation problems caused by forest roads, restore riparian areas and re-establish large woodjams at ecologically appropriate sites.

1993, Robert Doppelt, Mary Scurlock, Entering the Watershed, page 67:

Fishes (especially small ones) often use complex hiding cover such as roots,wood jams, or aquatic macrophytes to avoid predators.

2012, Tim Beechie, Philip Roni, Stream and Watershed Restoration:

In the anastomosing river model, stable alluvial deposits associated with woodjams can resist lateral channel erosion for hundreds of years, providing sites for tree germination.

2020, Ellen Wohl, Rivers in the Landscape, page 286:

(ecology) An accumulation of wood and debris from vegetation that slows the flow of a river or stream.


ecocycle

A number of actions in support of ecocycle balancing have already occurred.

2012, Timothy Beatley, Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities, Island Press, page 234:

The New Ecology of Leadership is in five parts, each of which deals with different aspects of the mental model I call the ecocycle.

2012, David Hurst, The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World, Columbia University Press, page 12:

Also there was a Canadian ecologist Crawford ‘Buzz’ Holling, who was just at that time propounding his four-fold ‘ecocycle’: a now celebrated sequence of transformations that was uncannily similar (in its underlying dynamics) to the patterns traced out in the cultural theory that was implicit in Mary Douglas’ early work and in Rubbish Theory, and which was made explicit in her later work and in my 1990 book (with Richard Ellis and Aaron Wildavsky) Cultural Theory.

2017, Michael Thompson, Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value, Pluto Press, page 17:


benthon

The simple trophic relations in the plankton do not demand such a wide variety of adaptations as do the complex relations in the benthon where, in addition to microphagous herbivores, there are also macrophagous ones and an^([sic]) unique of detritus feeders which build up animal protoplasm on the sea floor.

1961, Challenger Society for the Promotion of the Study of Oceanography, Annual Report and Proceedings of the Challenger Society, volumes 13-20, The Society, →OCLC, page 28:

(ecology, biology) The habitat at the bottom of a body of water.


psammic

From Ancient Greek ψᾰ́μμος (psắmmos, “sand”) + -ic.

af

(ecology) Of or pertaining to the psammon.


ecodramaturgy

en-noun

ecodramaturgy (countable and uncountable, plural ecodramaturgies)

Coined by theatre historian and critic Theresa J. May in 2010, from eco- + dramaturgy.

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It also provides an example of what I have begun to call ecodramaturgy: that is, play-making (script development and production) that puts ecological reciprocity and community at the centre of its theatrical and thematic intent.

2010, Theresa J. May, “Kneading Marie Clements' Burning Vision”, in Canadian Theatre Review, volume 144, →DOI, page 6:

The first is the inauguration of a subset of ecocriticism termed ‘ecodramaturgy,’ a term coined by May and further developed by Arons and May.

2016, Adeline Johns-Putra, “Climate change in literature and literary studies: From cli-fi, climate change theater and ecopoetry to ecocriticism and climate change criticism”, in WIREs Climate Change, volume 7, number 2, →DOI, page 274:

Ecodramaturgy indicates not simply theatre about ecological issues, but theatre that takes up the challenge of the newly expanded frames of thinking entailed by the Anthropocene.

2020, Catherine Love, “From Facts to Feelings: The Development of Katie Mitchell’s Ecodramaturgy”, in Contemporary Theatre Review, volume 30, number 2, →DOI, page 227:

Theatrical development and production motivated by ecological concerns.


PHC

Coordinate term: PHA

(astronomy, ecology, geology) Abbreviation of potentially hazardous comet.


kleptopredator

(biology, ecology) An animal that engages in kleptopredation.


secondary predation

(biology, ecology) A form of predation when one predator feeds on a second predator, which has in turn already consumed a target prey.


indirect predation

(biology, ecology) A nonconsumptive suppression of prey by a predator.


saprobity

en-noun

saprobity (countable and uncountable, plural saprobities)

(ecology) A measure of the amount of decaying organic material in an environment such as a river.


mesocline

Coordinate term: xerocline

The xeroclines receive stronger light for longer periods than do the mesoclines, while the mean temperatures of air and of soil are higher by 5-10 degrees Fahr., […]

1931, John Frederick Vicars Phillips, Forest-succession and Ecology in the Knysna Region, page 132:


xerocline

Coordinate term: mesocline


Indomalayan realm

(ecology, biogeography) One of the eight biogeographic realms, extending across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.


New Pangaea

The New Pangaea’s threat to global species diversity disappeared because we looked at the species–area curve among provinces. But the same curve predicts the effect of area-loss itself.

2001 March, Michael L. Rosenzweig, “The four questions: What does the introduction of exotic species do to diversity?”, in Evolutionary Ecology Research, volume 3, number 3, pages 361–367:

According to the Olden paper, in the New Pangaea many species will become more uniform genetically.

2003 October 7, Carl Zimmer, “The New Pangaea”, in Science:

By transporting Asian species to North America, and North American species to Australia, and Australian species to Africa, and European species to Antarctica, we are, in effect, reassembling the world into one enormous supercontinent—what biologists sometimes refer to as the New Pangaea.

[2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 10, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:

(ecology) A notional supercontinent created through global travel and commerce, and the resulting worldwide dispersal of alien species.


ephemeroid

(ecology) Any kind of short-lived plant.


forest steppe

(ecology, geography) A temperate-climate ecotone and habitat type composed of grassland interspersed with areas of woodland or forest.


limnobiotic

Coordinate term: halobiotic


protocratic

Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic, mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.

1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229:

These shade-tolerant and relatively long-lived trees soon compete out the protocratic communities.

1987, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, page 9:

An example of the vegetation of this initial protocratic phase of the Holocene would be the subarctic birch–aspen woodland which existed adjacent to the retreating southern margin of the Scandinavian ice sheet.

2014, Neil Roberts, The Holocene: An Environmental History, page 141:

The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.

2019, Peter Vincent, The Biogeography of the British Isles: An Introduction, page 209:

(ecology) The first stage of interglacial forest development (Pre-Temperate), characterized by light-demanding species and rapid changes in vegetation.


Homogocene

Coined by American ornithologist and ecologist Gordon Orians, apparently from homogenous + -cene.

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Coordinate term: Anthropocene

The new shrunken natural world of the Homogocene will have a depressed speciation rate curve that will cost it species diversity in direct proportion to its loss of area.

So, the Homogocene cannot be said to have begun with the Holocene. Instead, 1500 would appear to be a good year to choose for the beginning of the Homogocene.

2010, Youssuf Gherbawy, Kerstin Voigt, editors, Molecular Identification of Fungi, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 5:

(ecology) The current ecological era marked by anthropogenic biotic homogenization, having begun c. 1500 CE.


nature-positive

Observers expressed disappointment at the weaker-than-hoped-for language on consumption and pesticide use, both significant drivers of biodiversity loss. The term “nature positive”, which some scientists had said would be the biodiversity equivalent of “net zero”, did not appear in the agreement.

2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian:

(ecology) A global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, and achieve full nature recovery by 2050.


nature-positive

At the same time, the extent of our planetary emergency – of climate crisis, biodiversity loss and inequality – has become evident. As we rebuild our societies and economies, we are faced with a unique opportunity to build a nature-positive future that we must not let slip away.

2021 October 28, Frans Timmermans, Achim Steiner, Sandrine Dixson-Declève, “Net zero is not enough – we need to build a nature-positive future”, in The Guardian:

(ecology) Relating to theoretical achievement of the global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, and to achieve full nature recovery by 2050.

(ecology) Of contributions towards the global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, and to achieve full nature recovery by 2050.


nature-positive

(ecology) Of actions that contribute towards the global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, and to achieve full nature recovery by 2050.


virovore

Curtis Suttle, a microbial ecologist who led several early studies on protists that might eat viruses, said his team’s unpublished experiments suggested that certain choanozoa could be die-hard virovores, too.

2020 September 24, Katherine J. Wu, “Nothing Eats Viruses, Right? Meet Some Hungry Protists”, in New York Times:

(biology, ecology, virology) An organism whose diet is primarily composed of viruses


virivory

(biology, ecology, virology) The eating of viruses. The dietary consumption of viruses. The condition of being virivorous. The condition of being a virovore.


pyroculture

en-noun

pyroculture (countable and uncountable, plural pyrocultures)

Montanus (1671:22) however commented that: “Greenery would abound more if the natives did not burn the areas where they wander”, without at all appreciating the pyroculture that had been practiced by the Tasmanians for millennia as an innovative and successful environmental management strategy (Bird et al. 2008).

2011, John Paull, “Environmental Management in Tasmania: Better Off Dead?”, in Daniel Niles, Godfrey Baldacchino, editors, Island Futures: Conservation and Development Across the Asia-Pacific Region, page 155:

Despite the absence of farmed crops (i.e., maize, beans, and squash) and agriculture, it is clear that the western North American landscape was highly managed through fire maintenance (or pyroculture) for thousands of years (e.g., articles in Blackburn and Anderson 1993).

2015, Shannon Tushingham, Jelmar W. Eerkens, “Hunter-Gatherer Tabacco Smoking in Ancient North America: Current Chemical Evidence and a Framework for Future Studies”, in Elizabeth Anne Bollwerk, Shannon Tushingham, editors, Perspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes, Tobacco and Other Smoke Plants in the Ancient Americas, page 216:

In the words of a recent scientific review of the effects accomplished by the ‘ecological engineering’ of traditional fire practitioners, ‘pyrodiversity begets biodiversity’. This a conscious cultural economy of fire in stark contrast to the organised irresponsibility of industrial pyroculture toward the ecological consequences of its burnings, of enclosed fires hidden behind ignition switches and powerpoints.

2020, Jeremy Walker, More Heat Then Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy and Economics, page 60:

(ecology, anthropology) The use of controlled burning, chiefly by hunter-gatherers, as a form of ecological engineering to manage plant and animal distribution in a habitat.


autosuccession

autosuccession (countable and uncountable, plural autosuccessions)

(ecology) An ecological succession, in which a species promotes its own continuation. So initial population and climax is the same.


flagship species

flagship species (plural keystone species)

(ecology) A highly recognizable and widely appreciated species that may serve to raise support a broader conservation effort.


pyrodiverse

en-adj

pyrodiverse (comparative more pyrodiverse, superlative most pyrodiverse)

more pyrodiverse (comparative)
most pyrodiverse (superlative)

(ecology) Of an environment or ecosystem, subject to variation in the kinds of fire experienced, whether produced by natural conditions or controlled burning.


wood wide web

Precisely what is passing between plants through fungal networks is a thorny question for all researches investigating wood wide webs.

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 184:

In the forest, there is a “wood wide web” of mycorrhizal fungi that run underground, connecting the trees in a forest, helping them grow and communicate.

The portrayal of fungi-forest symbioses as a 'wood wide web' is in itself a technological image which, as Woods analyses in his contribution to this volume, often hides the mycelium behind the tree: he agrees in this with Jedediah Purdy, who has satirized the inevitability with which, 'after centuries of viewing forests as kingdoms, then as factories (and, along the way, as cathedrals for Romantic sentiment), the 21st century would discover a networked information system under the leaves and humus'.

2022, Liliane Campos, Pierre-Louis Patoine, Life, Re-Scaled:

(ecology) A mycorrhizal network; a network of fungal hyphae that connect the plants in a region.


stenobiontic

Coordinate term: eurybiontic

(ecology) Able to tolerate only a limited range of environments.


eurybiont

Coordinate term: stenobiont

(ecology) An organism that is able to tolerate a wide range of environments.


stenobiont

Coordinate term: eurybiont

(ecology) An organism that is able to tolerate only a limited range of environments.


nonclimax

(ecology) Not being, or not relating to, a climax community.


mallín

(limnology) A type of meadow and wetland found in southern Chile and Argentina.


psychoecology

(ecology, psychology) A form of ecology which incorporates aspects from psychology.


plastivore

Meronym: plastizyme

(biology, ecology) A biological organism (microbial or otherwise) which consumes and breaks down plastics (synthetic polymers).


climate hoax

(offensive, used by climate change deniers) Climate change viewed as an event which is fabricated and neither caused nor accelerated by human activity.

気候悪戯

climate change viewed as a fabricated event


clearance time

en-noun

clearance time (countable and uncountable, plural clearance times)

To get a better idea of why the radon concentration takes a long time to return to a steady state, despite the large ventilation capacity of the 16,000-cfm ventilation fans, analysis was made of data from a test conducted to measure clearance time of an inert tracer after sudden injection into the intake portal of the mine .

1982, David P. Lindroth, Sterling J. Anderson, Safe, Effective Hangup Clearance for Underground Mines, page 11:

The exhaust configuration has little bearing on clearance time.

2004, William A. Burgess, Michael J. Ellenbecker, Robert D. Treitman, Ventilation for Control of the Work Environment, page 191:

Increased airflow is an option to decrease clearance time.

2013, Carsten Drebenstedt, Raj Singhal, Mine Planning and Equipment Selection, page 138:

The amount of time it takes to empty something out.

(ecology, chemistry) The amount of time before a foreign substance in the air has dissipated.


circular fashion

Coined in 2014 by Anna Brismar, the owner of Green Strategy, and another expert in Sweden.

Circular fashion is the intersection of the circular economy (a model that exchanges the typical cycle of take-make-waste in favour of reusing and recycling as much as possible) and sustainable and ethical fashion.

2022 September 19, Madeleine Hill, “What Is Circular Fashion?”, in Good On You:

(fashion, ecology, neologism) Clothes that are designed and made in such a way that they will last for a long time, can eventually be repaired or redesigned instead of being thrown away, and cause little or no damage to the environment.


mid-domain effect

mid-domain effect (plural mid-domain effects)

(ecology) The hypothesis that species richness tends to peak in the middle of a geographic range or habitat rather than at the extremes; an attempt to explain the observed pattern of latitudinal gradients in species diversity.


Succulent Karoo

(ecology) An ecoregion in South Africa and Namibia.


Wallace effect

(ecology, evolutionary biology) A process of speciation where natural selection increases the reproductive isolation between two populations of species as a result of selection acting against the production of hybrid individuals of low fitness.


global hectare

A unit of human-consumed biological production and waste assimilation. Its value is defined by taking a global per-hectare average over biologically productive land and fisheries.


global hoax

(offensive, used by climate change deniers) Global warming, seen as a hoax.


privileged sanctuary

privileged sanctuary (plural privileged sanctuaries)

They have a privileged sanctuary. I can remember in the early days in western Nebraska we used to go out in roundups and round up jackrabbits and run them into a corral and kill them with clubs, hundreds and thousands of them, because there were so many of them. Then a bug came along and most of them died off. The last few years, because of the privileged sanctuary, which is the focal point, they are coming back, actually thousands of jackrabbits.

1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Withdrawal and Utilization of the Public Lands of the United States, page 138:

(ecology) A refuge where certain species are granted a protected status and cannot be killed.


karooid

(ecology) A southern African biotype from the Karoo.


-limnion

From Ancient Greek λιμνίον (limníon, “small pond”), from λίμνη (límnē, “lake, marsh”).

der

(limnology) A part of a stratified lake.


-mictic

From Ancient Greek μίξις (míxis, “mingling”). First used in holomictic.

(limnology) Refers to the manner in which a body of water stratifies.


eco-neighborhood

→ Portuguese: ecobairro (calque)

The Beddington eco-neighborhood was opened in 2002 on a former landfill site in Sutton, a residential borough of South London.

2021 March 24, 6 eco-neighbourhoods to discover in Europe:

(ecology) neighborhood designed and organized in order to reduce the environmental impact of its activity


green accounting

(accounting, ecology) A type of accounting that attempts to factor environmental costs into the financial results of operations.


habitat loss

(ecology) Alteration of an environment so that a species or multiple species may no longer habitably live there.