ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does environmental science mean? 

• ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (noun)
  The noun ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

bionomics; ecology; environmental science

Hypernyms ("environmental science" is a kind of...):

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Domain member category:

biotic community; community ((ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other)

association ((ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species)

food chain ((ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member)

food pyramid ((ecology) a hierarchy of food chains with the principal predator at the top; each level preys on the level below)

food cycle; food web ((ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains)

ecesis; establishment ((ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat)

ecological succession; succession ((ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established)

ecological niche; niche ((ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species))

cosmopolitan; widely distributed (growing or occurring in many parts of the world)

endemic (native to or confined to a certain region)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "environmental science"):

palaeoecology; paleoecology (the branch of ecology that studies ancient ecology)

 Context examples 

Robin Wordsworth, assistant professor of environmental science and engineering, said: "Early Mars is unique in the sense that it's the one planetary environment, outside Earth, where we can say with confidence that there were at least episodic periods where life could have flourished.

(Methane Gas May Have Caused Greenhouse Effect on Young Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)