ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT

The term ecology was first proposed by a German Biologist Ernest Hackel in 1866. The word is derived from two Greek words „Oikos that means house, a place to live and logos i.e. the study of. Therefore ecology is a study of organisms at home.

According to Webster’s dictionary “ecology is the totality or patterns of relations between organisms and their environment”. For E. Hackel “It is the science of relation between organisms and their environment”. Taylor defined ecology as “the science of all the relations of all the organisms in relation to all the environments