Autecology vs. Ecology — What's the Difference?

Autecology is an approach in ecology that seeks to explain the distribution and abundance of species by studying interactions of individual organisms with their environments. An autecological approach differs from both community ecology (synecology) and population ecology by greater recognition of the species-specific adaptations of individual animals, plants or other organisms, and of environmental over density-dependent influences on species distributions.

Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, "house" and -λογία, "study of") is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment [1], [2]. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystems, and biosphere level.

The branch of ecology that deals with the biological relationship between an individual organism or an individual species and its environment.

The science of the relationships between organisms and their environments.

One of two broad subdivisions of ecology, which studies the individual organism or species.

The relationship between organisms and their environment.

See human ecology.

(biology) The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.

The branch of biology concerned with the various relations of animals and plants to one another and to their surrounding environment.

The environment as it relates to living organisms;

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