"œcologists" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1907, Donald Petrie, Account of a Visit to Mount Hector, page 298",
          "text": "In years to come, when the wide belt of forest land on the slopes of the range has been more largely cleared off, a free invasion may be expected, and the changes that will then ensue will afford the œcologists of the future an instructive field for research.",
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