For extremely poor rural communities, variables in the community, like ecological setting, including climate, soil, rainfall, temperature, altitude, and seasonality greatly impact health.

Nature requires some compensating feature in any ecological setting for the expenditure and consumption of so much energy.

Seefa was convinced she could duplicate a microbial neural mind in a controlled ecological setting.

Our objective is to restore species to a fully functioning existence in their ecological setting so that they can continue on their evolutionary pathway.

A further definition of culture is, "[s]ocially transmitted behavior patterns that serve to relate human communities to their ecological settings."

The Mesa Verde area was settled by 400 AD, and villages subsequently spread into a variety of local ecological settings.

The ecological setting was similar to that of today, except for an alkaline lake which has long since evaporated.

Had we been in North America the ecological setting would have been boreal forest.

Sunderban mangroves form part of the subcontinent's largest mangrove system with a tiger population in a distinct ecological setting.

After surviving in two distinct ecological settings, Australopithecus Boisei's developed different expression of survival strategy.