ECOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ecologist mean? 

• ECOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun ECOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment

  Familiarity information: ECOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ecologist" is a kind of...):

biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)

Derivation:

ecology (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment)

ecology (the environment as it relates to living organisms)

 Context examples 

Understanding how forest structure drives carbon sequestration is important for ecologists, climate modelers and forest managers, who are working on ways to mitigate climate change.

(Structural complexity in forests improves carbon capture, National Science Foundation)

Led by Zuzana Burivalova, tropical forest ecologist at Princeton University in the United States, the study recorded almost 1,300 hours of sounds in July 2015.

(Scientists record the sound of intact forest, SciDev.Net)

The ecologists discovered that grasslands can be surprisingly tough.

(Environmental change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands, National Science Foundation)

Peters and his co-authors, UC Santa Barbara marine ecologists Dan Reed and Deron Burkepile, saw the local community of sea-bottom invertebrates as a likely additional nitrogen source.

(In search of an undersea kelp forest's missing nitrogen, National Science Foundation)

A major conference to be held at the Vatican is bringing together prominent biologists, ecologists and economists as part of the Biological Extinction conference in a bid to halt the mass extinction.

(Nearly Half the Planet's Species Could Be Wiped Out by the End of This Century, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A new study by University of California, Berkeley microbial ecologists used experimental evolution to help identify the core microbiome of commercial tomatoes.

(How do you cultivate a healthy plant microbiome?, National Science Foundation)

The ecologists show how vital large animals are to maintaining the biodiversity of tropical forests in Thailand.

(Overhunting of large animals has catastrophic effects on trees, NSF)

Added lead author Eric Post, a UC Davis ecologist, Many of the changes over the past decade are so dramatic they make you wonder what the next decade of warming will bring.

(Warming at the poles will have global consequences, National Science Foundation)

Inside experimental chambers, ecologists have been increasing carbon dioxide levels for more than 30 years.

(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)

The research was led by Mark Hay, a marine ecologist and Regents Professor at GT, who said There is a lot of argument now about whether local management can help in the face of global stresses — whether what a Fijian village does matters when people in London and Los Angeles burn fossil fuels to drive to work.

(Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, Wikinews)