Definition of "ecophysiology" []

• The study of the interrelationship between an organism's physical functioning and its environment. (noun)

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• "How does that record stack up against University of Montana professor Steven Running, who shares the Nobel Prize on the topic, has a Ph. d in foresty ecophysiology and who has conducted research on global warming?"
• "As to telling me to "read some science", well, my field is computational ecophysiology."
• "Hmm, your field is "computational ecophysiology" is it ministyra?"