ecologist
Americannoun
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a scientist or researcher whose field of study involves the relationships and interactions between organisms and their environment.
Ecosystem ecologists study how nutrients, energy, and water flow through an ecosystem.
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an environmentalist.
Like climate change activists and ecologists around the world, I feel passionately that the issue is crucial to the long-term well-being of the human race.
Etymology
Origin of ecologist
Example Sentences
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Flinders microbial ecologist Dr. Jake Robinson and his colleagues explore this shift in a new paper published in Microbial Biotechnology.
From Science Daily
I asked around and found a fire ecologist who has been studying the McNally fire almost since the embers went out.
From Los Angeles Times
"As the famous ecologist Robert May said, if visiting aliens asked us how many species live on our planet, we would have no definitive answer," said Wiens.
From Science Daily
John Wehausen, an applied population ecologist who has studied bighorn for more than half a century, is thrilled by the recent policy changes.
From Los Angeles Times
The research, conducted with chemical ecologist Thomas Schmitt from the University of Würzburg in Germany, documents this form of altruistic disease signaling in social insects for the first time.
From Science Daily
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