Sociation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sociation is a noun meaning (botany) A plant community.
Meaning
(botany) A plant community.
More Meanings
- (ecology) The stable interactions and influences among the species within a coenose.
- (sociology) Interactions and relationships among people.
Example Sentences
Risk cultures lie in non-institutional and anti-institutional sociations.
Sociation is neither the cause nor the consequence of society; it is society.
In the classification, sociations are first distinguished by the dominant or constant species, or by a combination of them.
Therefore a comparative analysis and a classification of bog plant communities must be undertaken on the basis of sociations.
Word Forms
- sociations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include phytoassociation, composite, plantkind, arborescence, stock, plantlife.
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