Ecophysiology (from Greek, oikos, "house(hold)";, physis, "nature, origin"; and, -logia) or environmental physiology's a biological discipline which studies the adaptation of organism's physiology to environmental conditions. It's closely related to comparative physiology and evolutionary physiology. Ecophysiology of plants Plant ecophysiology's an experimental science that seeks to describe the physiological mechanisms underlying ecological observations. In other words, ecophysiologists, or p… (More on Ecophysiology)