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Ecology is the study of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their ______ environment.
physical
Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, ______, ecosystem, and biosphere level.
community
Ecology overlaps with the closely related sciences of biogeography, evolutionary biology, genetics, ______, and natural history.
ethology
Ecology is a branch of ______, and it is not synonymous with environmentalism.
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Among other things, ecology is the study of abundance, biomass, and distribution of organisms in the context of the ______; life processes, interactions, and adaptations; movement of materials and energy through living communities; successional development of ecosystems; cooperation, competition, and predation within and between species; and patterns of biodiversity and its effect on ecosystem processes.
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