The study of individual organisms and their interaction with the environment is known as autecology.
Key Points
- Ecology is the study of the interaction of organisms with their environment.
- Synecology and autecology is the branch of ecology.
- Synecology is the study of a group of organisms and their relation to the environment.
- Community ecology or synecology is the study of the interactions between species in communities on many spatial and temporal scales, including the distribution, structure, abundance, demography, and interactions between coexisting populations.
- For example, the study of the entire grassland ecosystem.
