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DEFINITION
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In a particular site and time, a collection of co-existing organisms, not strictly inter-dependent but with unspecified relationships (e.g. trophic) between them.
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Other Definitions
A collection of organisms at a particular site at particular time. |
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Underwood (1986) in McGlade (1999)
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An association of co-existing species with similar environmental tolerance, possibly trophic relationships, but not totally interdependent. |
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Bianchi G. (1992): A study of demersal assemblages of the continental shelf and upper Angolan slope. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 81: 102-120
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A collection of species inhabiting a given area, the interactions between the species, if any, being unspecified. |
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Cooke, J.G. (1984), Glossary of technical terms. In Exploitation of Marine Communities, R.M. May (ed), Springer-Verlag
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