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
There is much to interest the general microbial ecologist here as well as the more obvious plant patholog y audience.
You see, ecologists have essentially a conservative attitude, and you can see it perhaps best in traditional farmers.
It is often difficult for ecologists to choose which of the many diversity indices and estimators to use.
This, too, is part of the utopian picture of healthcare ethics envisaged by the aspiring physician deep ecologist and his or her future patients.
This book is recommended reading for tropical biologists and agriculturalists, including entomologists, horticulturists and tropical ecologists as well as palm nursery growers, managers and enthusiasts.
The result is a major contribution to the understanding of ecological-social linkages that is of interest to ecologists, anthropologists, economists, and politicians.
But most ecologists would agree that any territorial tendencies in human beings are far overshadowed by our nature as social animals.
Some ecologists seem to assume that dormancy is necessary for persistence, while others imply that dormancy and persistence are virtually synonymous.