"in ecological terms" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe something in relation to the study of ecology or the environment. Example: "The impact of deforestation can be measured in ecological terms, as it disrupts the delicate balance of ecosystems and threatens biodiversity."
In ecological terms, worse, perhaps very much worse, is on the way.
The peninsula is almost an island, in ecological terms: water on three sides, frost on the fourth.
By talking about cancer in ecological terms, Pienta was, in the tradition of Paget and Fidler, urging his colleagues to pay more attention to the soil.
"In ecological terms, scientists refer to R-selected species and k-selected species," said Dr. Patrick Thomas, curator of mammals at the Bronx Zoo.
In ecological terms we are in "overshoot" of Earth's "carrying capacity" for humans, our demand exceeding the planet's absorptive and regenerative capacities.
The survey took place just five years after intense scallop dredging officially stopped there – a blink of an eye in ecological terms.
While entomologists and beekeepers alike lament that development, quantifying the loss of the wild honeybee in purely ecological terms is difficult.
Popular and academic sources alike explain sustainability in purely ecological terms: "the property of biological systems to remain diverse and productive indefinitely".
Popular and academic sources alike explain sustainability in purely ecological terms: "the property of biological systems to remain diverse and productive indefinitely". In other words, sustainability is synonymous with environmental conservation-- saving the planet". But sustainability has always meant muconservation-- saving
In broader ecological terms, there is also the potential to map dietary differences determined by stable isotopes on to measures of availability of prey in order to understand the potential for dietary specialisation to maintain species barriers, or to act to make hybrids unfit, through a failure to effectively occupy a single trophic niche within a habitat.
In more ecological terms this is same as asking how habitat succession leads to changes in niche availability, occupancy, and overlap (due to character displacement, for example).
