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biocenology

(bī′ō-sə-nŏl′ə-jē)
n. Ecology
The study of communities in nature and of interactions among their members.
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biocenology

The study of communities of organisms and their interactions with each other.
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References in periodicals archive
He had surprised people during a Stanchinskij talk he emerged as a critic of biocenology, expressing doubts about ecology's right to call itself a science (Weiner, 1989).
Functional importance vs keystoneness: reformulating some questions in theoretical biocenology. Journal of Ecology 22:369-382.
22-33 in Questions of Evolutionary Morphology and Biocenology, Kazan University Press, Kazan, Russia.
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