"Ecology" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their ENVIRONMENT, especially as manifested by natural cycles and rhythms, community development and structure, interactions between different kinds of organisms, geographic distributions, and population alterations. (Webster's, 3d ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D004463
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H01.158.273.248 H01.277.249
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| Concept/Terms |
Ecology- Ecology
- Ecologies
- Environmental Science
- Environmental Sciences
- Science, Environmental
- Sciences, Environmental
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Ecology" by people in this website by year, and whether "Ecology" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2016 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2019 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ecology" by people in Profiles.
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Clarifying space use concepts in ecology: Range vs. occurrence distributions. Ecology. 2026 Mar; 107(3):e70300.
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Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. J Anim Ecol. 2025 Dec; 94(12):2376-2389.
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Applying ecological principles to microbiome engineering. Nat Microbiol. 2025 Sep; 10(9):2111-2121.
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Toward a More Dynamic Metabolic Theory of Ecology to Predict Climate Change Effects on Biological Systems. Am Nat. 2025 Mar; 205(3):285-305.
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Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities. Am Nat. 2025 Feb; 205(2):E34-E48.
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Ancient tree genomes for old questions. Mol Ecol. 2024 02; 33(3):e17259.
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Abyssal hydrothermal springs-Cryptic incubators for brooding octopus. Sci Adv. 2023 08 25; 9(34):eadg3247.
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Bayesian Prediction of Multivariate Ecology from Phenotypic Data Yields New Insights into the Diets of Extant and Extinct Taxa. Am Nat. 2023 08; 202(2):192-215.
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Conceptual and analytical approaches for modelling the developmental origins of inequality. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2023 08 14; 378(1883):20220306.
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Ecogeography of group size suggests differences in drivers of sociality among cooperatively breeding fairywrens. Proc Biol Sci. 2023 03 29; 290(1995):20222397.