eng International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Selforganizology 2410-0080 2015-06-1 2 2 35 38 2 article WenJun Zhang zhwj@mail.sysu.edu.cn 1 GuangHua Liu ghliu@gdaib.edu.cn 2 School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Hong Kong Guangdong AIB Polytech College, Guangzhou 510507, China Synergy refers to that in an open and complex system consisting of a large number of subsystems, far from equilibrium, its subsystems interact in a nonlinear way to produce synergistic effects and thus make the system generate a self-organization structure in space/time with certain functions. Biologists and ecologists, tend to use coevolution/coadaptation to represent the terminology "synergy". Coevolution and research methodology were briefly discussed in present paper. http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/selforganizology/articles/2015-2(2)/coevolution-a-synergy-in-biology-and-ecology.pdf synergy coevolution coadaptation