Other Criteria
Ecology can also be classified on the basis of:
- the primary kinds of organism under study, e.g. animal ecology, plant ecology, insect ecology;
- the biomes principally studied, e.g. forest ecology, grassland ecology, desert ecology, benthic ecology, marine ecology, urban ecology;
- the geographic or climatic area, e.g. arctic ecology, tropical ecology
- the spatial scale under consideration, e.g. macroecology, landscape ecology;
- the philosophical approach, e.g. systems ecology which adopts a holistic approach;
- the methods used, e.g. molecular ecology.
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