单词 | thanatocœnosis |
释义 | > as lemmasthanatocœnosis thanatocœnosis n. Brit. /ˌθanətəʊsᵻˈnəʊsɪs/ , U.S. /ˌθænətoʊsəˈnoʊsəs/ (also U.S.ˌthanatoˈcenosis) Ecology a group of fossils occurring in the same location but not necessarily representing a former biocœnosis. [ < German Thanatocoenose (E. Wasmund 1926, in Arch. f. Hydrobiol. 17 6) < thanato- thanato- comb. form + Hellenistic Greek κοίνωσις sharing (see phytocoenosis n.); compare biocoenosis n.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > population > [noun] > type of swarm1560 isotype1881 habitat group1898 guild1903 microcolony1925 thanatocœnosis1953 ecomorph1954 community1957 subpopulation1959 micropopulation1966 1953 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 251 25 The term ‘thanatocoenosis’ implies a community of death; as used by Wasmund, however, it has come to mean the aggregated remains of organisms that in many cases never constituted a biocoenosis. 1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 452 The following (and last) regression..left a very rich fauna which forms most of the thanatocoenoses lying under the present sea level. 1975 Nature 23 Oct. 667/2 It is well known that factors such as habitat preference of the animals in question,..and the environmental setting influence the likelihood of the preservation of thanatocoenoses. 1977 Biotropica IX. 131 (heading) A small-vertebrate thanatocenosis from northern Peru. < as lemmas |
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