名词

1. 生态学
Ecology is the study of the relationships between plants, animals, people, and their environment, and the balances between these relationships.

2. 生态（环境）；生态系统
When you talk about the ecology of a place, you are referring to the pattern and balance of relationships between plants, animals, people, and the environment in that place.

1. the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment

Synonym: bionomicsenvironmental science

2. the environment as it relates to living organisms

e.g. it changed the ecology of the island