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 | | The older term, autecology refers to the roughly same field of study, coming from the division of ecology into autecology—the study of individual species in relation to the environment—and synecology—the study of groups of organisms in relation to the environmnent—or community ecology. |
 | | In fact, Odum regarded "autecology" as no longer a "present tendency" in ecology (i.e., an archaic term), although included "species ecology"—studies emphasizing life history and behaviour as adaptations to the environment of individual organisms or species—as one of four sub-divisions of ecology. |
 | | The development of the field of population ecology owes much to the science of demography and the use of actuarial life tables. |
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