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  1. Greek oikos `house' the study of the
  2. relationship between an organism and the
  3. environment in which it lives, including
  4. other living organisms and the nonliving
  5. surroundings. The term was coined by the
  6. biologist Ernst Haeckel 1866. Ecology may be
  7. concerned with individual organisms (for
  8. example, behavioural ecology, foraging
  9. strategies), with populations or species (for
  10. example, population dynamics), or with entire
  11. communities (for example, competition between
  12. species for access to resources in an
  13. ecosystem, or predator-prey relationships).
  14. Applied ecology is concerned with the
  15. management and conservation of habitats and
  16. the consequences and control of pollution.
  17.