from nearby plants of other species. In the reference column of Table 1, only the first chromosome number report for a species is cited. The following subgenera, with the number Received for publication 13 Mar. 1995. Accepted for publication 14 July 1995. This research was funded by CRIS 5358-21000-011-000 at the U.S.
ecological. adj. 1. (Environmental Science) of or relating to ecology. 2. (Environmental Science) (of a practice, policy, product, etc) tending to benefit or cause minimal damage to the environment.
Â· just now. 1  Ecology, or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how the distribution and abundance are affected by interactions between the organisms and their environment. ecology, study of the relationships of organisms to their physical environment and to one another. The study of an individual organism or a single species is termed autecology; the study of groups of organisms is called synecology. Ecology is the study of the environment.