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Record 1 2012-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Botany
DEF

A community of plants within a mature consociation characterized by one or more subdominant species or a common habit.

CONT

Shorea curtesii dominates small societies on steep slopes in the hill rain forests of the Malay Peninsula.

OBS

The society comes next below the consociation in rank, but it is not necessarily a division of it, for the same society may extend through or recur in two or more consociations, i.e., throughout the entire association.

OBS

Compare with "socies", which refers to immature plant communities, and with "plant association", which refers to a community individualized in terms of its structure and quantitative floristic composition.

Key term(s)
  • society of plants
  • vegetal society
  • society of vegetals

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Botanique
DEF

[Au] sens concret, groupement végétal plus ou moins homogène non combiné dans sa totalité sous l'influence de l'homme; [dans le sens abstrait], type de groupement végétal dont le rang systématique, selon cette manière de voir, n’ a pas d’importance(par exemple : forêt de Hêtre à Melica).

CONT

Nous avons tous observé que la rupture de l’équilibre d’un peuplement se manifeste à la reprise par l’arrivée d’une autre société végétale où généralement le nombre des espèces est beaucoup plus élevé et dont la qualité est le plus souvent discutable.

Key term(s)
  • société de plantes
  • société de végétaux

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