ecologist
ecologist — noun
1. a scientist whose job is to study how living things — like animals, plants, and
a scientist whose job is to study how living things — like animals, plants, and tiny organisms — share space and depend on each other in a forest, river, ocean, or other natural area.
Rafael works as an ecologist counting frogs in the rainforest near his village.
work as a/an + [profession]
A team of ecologists is studying how tigers and farmers can share the same valley.
a team of ecologists is/are + [study activity]
Ecologists at the university discovered a new species of beetle in the old oak forest.
Ritu wants to become a marine ecologist and study coral reefs in Indonesia.
The ecologist warned the council that cutting down the trees would hurt the local birds.
- biologist
broader; studies any living thing, not only their relationships with the environment.
- environmental scientist
wider field; includes pollution, soil, and climate as well as living things.
- naturalist
more old-fashioned; observes plants and animals in the wild but may not do formal research.
文法句型
a/the ecologist
ecologists at + institution
用法筆記
Often modified by the kind of environment the scientist studies: 'marine ecologist' (sea), 'forest ecologist', 'wildlife ecologist', 'urban ecologist' (cities). Don't confuse with 'environmentalist', which describes a person who campaigns to protect nature but does not have to be a scientist.