个体生态学是研究单一物种的生态学，即只研究该物种及其环境，其物种影响环境和物种受环境的影响的情形。 例如，族群生态学便是个体生态学的一种。

1. ↑ Britannica online

Autecology is the ecology of a single species, that is the relations between that species and its environment, how the species affects the environment and how it is affected by the environment. Autecology includes for example population ecology.