noun
synecology; community ecology
Academic term in ecology referring to the study of interactions between species within a community and their environment.
群集生態学は、生物群集の構造や動態を研究する分野です。
Synecology is the field that studies the structure and dynamics of biological communities.
Population ecology (個体群生態学) focuses on single-species populations, while synecology (群集生態学) deals with multi-species communities.
Compound of 群集 (community, crowd) + 生態学 (ecology). The term is a direct translation of the English 'synecology' or 'community ecology'.