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

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

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

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

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

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

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

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

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life

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

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

Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

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

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

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

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

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

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing

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

The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators

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

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

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean

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

Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World

Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

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

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book

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

Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future

The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

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

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us

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

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

Ralentir ou périr: L'économie de la décroissance

Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

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

The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human

Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms

Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic

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

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

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

Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

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Quotes Tagged “Ecology”

“ It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals. ...more ”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

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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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