ecology

scientific study of the relationships between living organisms
Intangible academic_discipline Q7150
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Summary

ecology is an academic discipline[1]. ecology ranks in the top 4% of academic discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,224 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: branch of biology[3], field of study[4]
  • Subclass of: ecology and evolutionary biology[5]
  • Commons category: Ecology[6]
  • Said to be the same as: environmental research[7]
  • Has part(s): human ecology[8], plant ecology[9], genetic ecology[10], animal ecology[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ecology[12]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Ecology[13]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], New International Encyclopedia[17], The New Student's Reference Work[18]
  • Topic has template: Predefinição:Ecologia[19]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://biology.stackexchange.com/tags/ecology[20]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C16526[21]
  • Different from: ethology[22]
  • History of topic: history of ecology[23]
  • Is the study of: ecological concept[24], ecosystem[25]
  • Permanent duplicated item: ecology[26]
  • Practiced by: ecologist[27]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[28]

Body

Influence

Things named for ecology include arcology[29] and Iriadamant[30], a group of humans[31], in Finland[32], founded in 1991[33].

Why It Matters

ecology has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] ecology is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Entities named for ecology include arcology[29] and Iriadamant[30], a group of humans[31], in Finland[32], founded in 1991[33].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    The independent topic id → ecology
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ The independent topic id: ecology, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/214115822|Ecology (#214115822)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7171|The Independent to"
  2. 8d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 230
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'b
    Verbaalpina id → C19256
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||isv, bi, mr */ import labels from sitelinks"
  3. 13w ago · Charp238 · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lemmy community id → ecology@mander.xyz
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Lemmy community id: ecology@mander.xyz"
  4. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → nOa1q
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → ecology
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: ecology, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289927978|ecology (#289927978)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  6. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001922-ekologie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001922-ekologie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  7. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Edam ontology id → topic_0610
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 634, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  8. 22w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image unavailable reason → —
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    Image last checked license → —
    Nci thesaurus id → C16526
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Nci thesaurus id: C16526"
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