Environmental Science provides an integrated, quantitative and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems. It is a mixture of traditional science, individual and societal values, and political awareness. Environmental Science also shows multidisciplinary features.

Recent Areas of Ecology:

Conservation Ecology

Deals with application of ecological principles to proper management and resources

Resource Ecology

Deals with renewable and non-renewable resources and their judicious management (use in environmental engineering)

Pollution Ecology

Deals with problems associated with the movement of pollutants in the environment, environmental deterioration and maintenance of its cleanliness (use in environmental engineering)

System Ecology

Deals with analysis and modeling of ecological systems (use in environmental engineering)

Dear Disna, It's very enriching what you have write, because Ecology has been one of the bases for the formulation of this branch of engineering. 

I would like to ask you where to find a citation about those recent areas.

Thank you for your concern in this matter.

Sincerely,

Juan Sebastián Mora A.

Biology and Environmental Engineering student

University of La Salle, Colombia. 

Dear Juan, 

My BSc and MSc is on environmental sciences and environmental management. However, I don't have literature on this regard because it was learnt from my masters. Please see this document, I prepared for visiting lectures.

Dear Juan,

I would recommend reading the attached publication by Naeem et. al (2016) for most if not all of your questions.    

Naeem S, Chazdon R, Duffy JE, Prager C, Worm B. 2016. Biodiversity and human well-being: an essential link for sustainable development. Proc. R. Soc. B 283: 20162091.

Article Biodiversity and human well-being: An essential link for sus...

Dear Disna and George, Thank you very much for the documents. both of you have helped me so much with the information that you have shared, so now I'm working on a very informative and argumentative letter to validate my position on the importance on this branch of the ecology for the environmental engineering.

Best wishes for both of you.

Dear Juan,

the question you are raising is very interesting and much more complicated as it is usually believed. If you are speaking about plant-animal interactions, so you mean mainly mutualistic relations that are studied much more poor than eg competition or predation. This biocenotic relation belongs into bi-directional soft interactions of ++ type (profit for both). I'm working now on a Sub-Chapter about influence of such relations on geographical distribution of invertebrates. The problem of using this knowledge in eco-engineering approaches is still limited into the most simple relations (like starfish-corals) only as all aspects even of not complicated relations can have the long distant consequences, like better growing of some seeds after passing the intestine of grazers, and when killing the last have awful negative influence on baobabs in islands of the Indian Ocean.

So, not long time (after acceptance for publication) will be possibility to put this my Chapter connected all questions you are asking into the Internet. But before - if you have interest - contact me over RG mail, and I'll send you some papers that are like closed for open access about relations between organisms, and possibly my schema of biocenotic relations that is ready for publication as well  This is abs. necessary as if wrong classification of interaction - how to regulate?

Andrey