| English | Chinese |
| agro-ecological knowledge | 农业生态知识 |
| British Ecological Society | 英国生态学学会 |
| ecological abundance Number of individual specimens of an animal or plant seen over a certain period of time in a certain place | 生态丰富度 (在特定时间和特定区域中某种典型动物或植物个体的数量。) |
| ecological adaptation Change in an organism so that it is better able to survive or reproduce, thereby contributing to its fitness | 生态适应性 (生物体为更好地生存或繁殖，因而有利于环境适应性的改变。) |
| ecological agriculture | 生态农业 |
| ecological assessment Ecological assessment consists in monitoring the current and changing conditions of ecological resources from which success or failure of the ecosystem can be judged without bias; understanding more fully the structure and function of ecosystems in order to develop improved management options; developing models to predict the response of ecosystems to changes resulting from human-induced stress from which possible ecosystem management strategies can be assessed and assessing the ecological consequences of management actions so that decisionmakers can best understand the outcomes of choosing a particular management strategy | 生态评估 (生态评估包括监测生态资源的现状及变化，以便正确地判断生态系统的成功或失败；更充分了解生态结构及功能，以开发更新的管理机制；建立模式以预测因人为压力所造成生态系统变化的回应，进而评估可能的生态系统管理策略，以及评估管理行动完成之后所造成的生态结果，让决策者更容易了解选择某一特定管理策略的结果。) |
| ecological awareness | 生态意识 |
| ecological balance The condition of equilibrium among the components of a natural community such that their relative numbers remain fairly constant and their ecosystem is stable. Gradual readjustments to the composition of a balanced community take place continually in response to natural ecological succession and to alterations in climatic and other influences | 生态平衡 (自然群落中组成成分间的平衡状况，从而使得它们之间的相对数量基本上仍保持恒定，且生态系统是稳定的。 一个平衡的群落会逐步地、连续地重新调整其组成成分来响应自然生态的演替、季节更换和其他的影响。) |
| ecological bookkeeping The systematic accounting or recordkeeping of a company's impact on the environment or its progress towards environmentally sound business practices | 生态簿记 (系统地核算或记载一个公司对环境的影响，或向实现绿色企业的发展。) |
| ecological card | 生态卡片 |
| ecological carrying capacity 1. The maximum number of species an area can support during the harshest part of the year, or the maximum biomass it can support indefinitely. 2. The maximum number of grazing animals an area can support without deterioration | 生态承载力 (1. 在一年中条件最苛刻的时候,一个区域所能承载的最大物种数量，或最大生物量。 2. 一区域所能承载的且不会破坏该地区的最大放牧动物数量。) |
| ecological community 1. All of the plants and animals in an area or volume; a complex association usually containing both animals and plants. 2. Any naturally occurring group of organisms that occupy a common environment | 生态群落 (1. 区域或空间内所有动物和植物；通常包含动物和植物的复杂关系。 2. 任何自然产生﹐且占有某一公共环境的生物群体。) |
| ecological factor An environmental factor that, under some definite conditions, can exert appreciable influence on organisms or their communities, causing the increase or decrease in the number of organisms and/or changes in the communities | 生态因素 (在给定的条件下，对生物体或其群落施加的可观影响，引起生物体数量的增减或生物群落内部变化的环境因素。) |
| ecological factors | 生态因子 |
| ecological factors | 生态因素 |
| ecological features | 生态特征 |
| ecological histogram | 生态柱状图 |
| ecological inequality Any imbalance or disparity among inhabitants of the same living environment deemed inappropriate, unjust or detrimental to that environment's integrity | 生态失衡 (生活在相同环境下的居民间的任何失调或不一致，被认为是不合适、不法或者有害于环境的完整性。) |
| ecological management | 生态管理 |
| ecological niche 1. The space occupied by a species, which includes both the physical space as well as the functional role of the species. 2. Ecological niche refers to the characteristics of an environment that provides all the essential food and protection for the continued survival of a particular species of flora or fauna. In addition to food and shelter, there is no long-term threat to existence in that place from potential predators, parasites and competitors. The concept of the ecological niche goes a long way beyond the idea of the species habitat | 生态地位 (1. 由某一物种所占据的空间，包括物理空间和物种的功能角色。 2. 生态地位是指为某一特定动植物物种继续生存提供食物或保护的环境特征。除食物及庇护外，在这个环境中也不存在对生存构成长期威胁的潜在捕食者、寄生虫以及竞争者。生态地位的概念已经超越了物种栖息地的提法。) |
| ecological parameter A variable, measurable property whose value is a determinant of the characteristics of an ecosystem | 生态参数 (决定生态系统特性的可测量的变量。) |
| ecological quality | 生态质量 |
| ecological stocktaking Taking stock of, evaluating, or inventorying a company's impact on the environment or its progress towards environmentally sound business practices | 生态盘查 (评价或清点公司存货对环境的影响，或朝向绿色企业的进展。) |
| ecological succession | 生态演替 |
| economical-ecological efficiency The competency in performance in business matters involving the relation between financial and environmental principles | 经济生态效率 (指包含金融和环境准则关系的商业活动绩效能力。) |
| global agro-ecological zone | 全球农业生态区 |
| indigenous ecological knowledge | 传统生态知识 |
| selected ecological component | 选定的生态要素 |
| traditional ecological knowledge | 传统生态知识 |
| valued ecological components | 定价生态组分 |
