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taxocene

taxocene noun: a taxonomically related set of species within a community.

Noun

taxocene (plural taxocenes)

  1. A taxonomically related set of species within a community.
    • Many of these studies have shown that taxocene (i.e. taxonomically related set of species co-occurring in a given place) abundance could co-vary positively with resource availability along primary productivity gradients (lizards: [3], ants: [4], birds: [5]), thus supporting the premise that greater...2015 July 16, “Ant Abundance along a Productivity Gradient: Addressing Two Conflicting Hypotheses”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of taxocene

pluraltaxocenes

Questions about taxocene

What does taxocene mean?
Taxocene means a taxonomically related set of species within a community.
What part of speech is taxocene?
Taxocene is a noun.
What is the plural of taxocene?
The plural of taxocene is taxocenes.

Words near taxocene in the dictionary

  1. taxlessness
  2. taxlike
  3. taxman
  4. taxmen
  5. taxo-
  6. taxocene
  7. taxocenes
  8. taxocenose
  9. taxocenoses
  10. taxocenosis
  11. taxocracies

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