Most Read This Week In Ecology

Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, "house"; -λογία, "study of"[A]) is the scientific study of interactions among organisms and their environment, such as the interactions organisms have with each other and with their abiotic environment.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Ecology"

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Junglekeeper: What It Takes to Change the World

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Firestorm - The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster

Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Our Wild Familiars: How Animals Are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World

Togetherness: Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life's Greatest Collaborations

A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures

Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future

The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks

Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Birding to Change the World: An Uplifting Memoir that Explores what Birds Can Teach us about Life

Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves

Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World

Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse

Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown

The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature’s Clues

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe

Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice

A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness

Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline

Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

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Quotes Tagged “Ecology”

“ There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these are also the selfsame tale and contain as well all else within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you s ...more ”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

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“ [A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion. ”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

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