Ecology-“The Study of Structure & Function of Nature”

“Ecology word is combination of two Greek words “Oikos (home, house or dwelling place) & Logos (the study of).” This describes relation of organisms & their surroundings (environment).

When we go much deeper in understandings of Nature, broadly, we find two important aspects i.e. organisms and its surroundings (environment). Which, mutually co-related and dependent on each other with much complex relation.

Time to time many scientist used and coined different terminologies to study Nature.

French zoologist Isodore Geoffroy st.Hilaire in 1859 had coined the term “Ethology” for “Study of the relations of the organisms within the family & society in the aggregate & in community.”

Charles Darwin in his book “On the Origin of Species” (1859) has used several potential terms, which can be used in explanation of Modern Ecology in broader way.

In 1886 Haeckel used the term Ecology as “the knowledge of the sum of the relations of organisms to the surroundings outer world to organic & inorganic condition of existence.”

R Mishra (1967) described Ecology as “Interactions of form, functions & factors.” These three factors combinedely construct the triangle of Nature.

Odum in 1969 define Ecology as “the study of structure & function of Nature.

Krebs (1985) has defined Ecology as “Ecology is the scientific study of the interactions that determine the distribution & abundance of organisms.”

In more recent updates, the terminology “Biotic (Living) & Abiotic (non-living) used in describing the Ecology as its component and both are related with each other & functions accordingly as a proper system.