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X. GLOSSARY OF TERMS Abiocoen - the non-living components of an environment, such as water, soil, air, etc. Aciculilignosa - from Rübel’s (1930) formation types. Lignosa = woody formation; aciculilignosa comprises aciculilisilvae (needle-leaved or coniferous forest) & aciculifruticeta (needle-leaved scrub) Acoen - sub-categorisation (of eucoen) of animal association sharing the same space (Tischler 1947, 1950) Aestifruiticeta - from Rübel’s (1930) formation types; aestifruticeta (summergreen scrub), a plant association within the aestilignosa woody formations Aestilignosa - from Rübel’s formation types; comprises aestifruticeta (summergreen scrub) and aestisilvae (summergreen deciduous forest) Agrilignosa - an agricultural woody formation (e.g. fruit orchard) Agrobiocoenosis - acommunity of organisms that live on agricultural land Agrobiotope - an agricultural habitat Agrozoocoenology - study of the zoocoenoses of agricultural settings Alieni - (= “foreigners”) from Tischler’s (1947, 1950) classification; a subgroup of peregrinant (wandering, dispersing) organisms in a spatially delimited zoocoenosis arriving from distant locations (see vicini) Allogeneic - plant succession under external factors Altherbosa - from Rübel’s (1930) formation types. Tall herbage or forbland - from herbosa (herbaceous formations), also including duriherbosa (hardgrass prairie & steppe) and sempervirentiherbosa (evergreen grassland or meadow) Arvideserta — lit. ‘homogeneous cultivated field: Sod (1945); vegetation of cultivated areas where all forbs and herbs are of a singles species Aspect — season-dependent community, returning periodically Associatio - term (Deegener 1918) for a social animal association where individuals do not have ethological links with other semaphoront groups Association - plant sociological term (Balogh 1953) that mirrors a zoocoenological category; vegetation unit that may be defined by more than one dominant species in alayer
