0 a person who studies the natural relationships between the air, land, water, animals, plants, etc.
1 a person who studies the relationship between living things and their environment
Taxonomists are, in the main, concerned only with classifying taxonomic units, whereas behavioural ecologists are concerned with how the organism itself works.
This obviously isn't true, since public interest in and support for ecology has only increased since ecologists helped people to become aware of environmental problems.
By the same token, it has proved all too congenial for ecologists to regard the human presence as an inessential component of the ecological landscape.
That exercise requires the cooperation of behavioral ecologists, those who have been at work delineating the costs and benefits of social behavior.
Is it not the soundscape composer's responsibility to act like an acoustic ecologist?
Collaborative work between ecologists and economists has used the concept of resilience to explore the relative persistence of different states of nature.
Although behavioral ecologists have specified the functional requirements of conditional strategies, the proximate mediation of such an adaptation is not well specified.
Some ecologists seem to assume that dormancy is necessary for persistence, while others imply that dormancy and persistence are virtually synonymous.
