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What does autecology mean?

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Noun
  1. one of two broad subdivisions of ecology, which studies the individual organism or species.
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Of these five species of woodland winter annuals, only C. verna has received much attention with regard to autecology.
In regard to subdivisions, ecology is commonly divided into autecology and synecology.
This work is largely taxonomic and involves building on our current information base of chrysophycean microfossils by describing new morphotypes in terms of their morphology and autecology.
It seems unlikely that any of these aspects of their autecology accounts for differences between them either in geographical distribution or habitat ecology.
Nonetheless, we estimated ecological effects and impacts based on reviews of the literature and our knowledge of the autecology and synecology of these species.
Minno studied the pollination biology of A. curtissii, but little is known of its autecology.

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