Association (ecology)

In

habitat type.^[1]^: 181 The term was first coined by Alexander von Humboldt^[1]^: 16 and formalised by the International Botanical Congress in 1910.^[1]^: 182^[2]

An association can be viewed as a real, integrated entity shaped either by species interactions or by similar habitat requirements, or it can be viewed as merely a common point along a continuum. The former view was championed by American ecologist

Henry Gleason,^[1]^{: 182–183} who saw these groupings of plant species as a coincidence produced by the "fluctuation and fortuitous immigration of plants, and an equally fluctuating and variable environment".^[3]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Barbour, Michael G.; Jack H. Burk; Wanna D. Pitts, Frank S. Gilliam; Mark W. Schwartz (1999). Terrestrial Plant Ecology (Third ed.). Addison Wesley Longman.
doi:10.1127/0340-269x/2006/0036-0067
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^ Gleason (1935), cited in Barbour et al. 1999, p. 184^{[verification needed]}

JSTOR 2479933
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Further reading

Weber, H.E.; Moravec, J.; Theurillat, J.-P. (2000), "International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature. 3rd edition" (PDF), Journal of Vegetation Science, 1 (5): 739–768,
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[Barbour1999-1] Barbour, Michael G.; Jack H. Burk; Wanna D. Pitts, Frank S. Gilliam; Mark W. Schwartz (1999). Terrestrial Plant Ecology (Third ed.). Addison Wesley Longman.

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[3] Gleason (1935), cited in Barbour et al. 1999, p. 184^{[verification needed]}

[4] JSTOR 2479933
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