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Figures & data
Figure 1. Scheme showing the relationship between ecology (as a field of study), environment (as a component of what is studied) and ecosystem (as the existential arena in which such study is conducted) using a Venn diagram to show how the three basic elements of an ecosystem interact as the subject matter of interest to ecologists. Generalized from Pausas and Lamont (Citation2018), Lamont and He (Citation2020).
Figure 2. Historical citations of the terms environment, ecology and ecosystem, relativized so that the peak is given at the same level in all cases. Collated and redrawn from www.etymonline.com/search on 1 August 2023, themselves based on books.google.com/ngrams.
Figure 3. Relationship between number of citations (logged) and year of publication (red spots) of papers that mentioned ecological and/or environmental crisis with best-fit (binomial curve added. The blue bars are the number of publications per decade out of the first 100 listed by Google Scholar.
Table 1. Discipline allocation of publications that use the terms environmental and/or ecological crises for the first 100 publications listed in Google Scholar, 27 July 2023.
Table 2. The extent to which the concepts of environment and ecology were understood in their traditional scientific sense among 100 publications that used these terms, usually in the context of environmental and/or ecological crises.
Table 3. Combinations of words (adjective-noun) derived from the root words, environment, ecology or eco. I consider some of these scientific (reflects their traditional meaning), rhetorical/lifestyle (not consistent with their scientific meaning) or unclear (uncertain how the author is using the word as its meaning is not self-evident).
Table A1. Mention and level of understanding of the terms ecological (eco-*) and environmental (env-#), plus additional terms that incorporate these in the first 100 publications listed in google scholar® on 27 July 2023, plus the relevant discipline and their number of citations.