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taxocenes

taxocenes is the plural of taxocene.

Meaning of taxocene

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

Questions about taxocenes

What is taxocenes the plural of?
Taxocenes is the plural of taxocene.

Words near taxocenes in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: taxocenes (page history and authors); taxocene (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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