ecologically

ecological | Business English

ecological
adjective
 ENVIRONMENTuk /ˌiːkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/us
relating to ecology(= the relationship between living things and their environment) or the environment:
The industry has created thousands of jobs in rural communities but environmentalists believe this has been an ecological disaster.

ecologically

adverbuk /ˌiːkəˈlɒdʒɪkli/ us /-ˈlɑːdʒɪ-/
The office furniture is made from northern spruce from ecologically managed forests.

Examples of ecological

ecological
Problems, then, are raised about the ecological validity of this constraint and the role it might play in the perception of ordinary, everyday motion.
Such micro-organisms might not only have survived, but gone on to evolve their own independent, interlocking ecological system of predator-prey relations.
To environmental management analysts, the paper says: getting prices right is crucial, but the characteristics of ecological systems must be considered as well.
Because of inherent uncertainty in ecological, economic, and social systems, changes are required in the way decision options are evaluated.
The most important ecological features in differentiating tadpole species were position in the water column, time of occurrence and water depth.
These differences could result from the ecological conditions of the localities inhabited by each oyster species.
There may be ecological arguments that light and nitrate are the signals that initiate the germination process of perceptive (non-dormant) seeds.
But what has happened with this aesthetic, ecological concern is that it has been elevated to the status of a moral absolute.
In such integration exercises, the ecological function affects the rate at which a renewable resource increases and thereby impacts off-take from it.
Its remoteness, size, and virtually pristine condition mean that large-scale ecological and evolutionary processes continue essentially as they have done since times immemorial.
After obtaining several hundred simple events through ecological modelling or through temporal and spectral transformations, we proceed to merge these events using constrained stochastic algorithms.
However, compositional modellers are sufficiently flexible to be adapted to construct a domain theory of various socio-economic or ecological systems.
Second, what is the relative importance of demographic, ecological, and technological adjustments in preventing overshoot and collapse?
Ecological theory is already very close in spirit to economics.
An ecological law and its macroecological consequences as revealed by studies of relationships between host densities and parasite prevalence.
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