A community of different organisms living together and interacting in a specific environment or habitat.
From Greek bios 'life' + koinos 'common, shared' + -osis (state or condition). Introduced by German biologist Karl Möbius in the 1870s to describe ecological communities.
A biocenosis is basically an ecological neighborhood—a coral reef biocenosis or a rainforest floor biocenosis works only because each creature fills a specific role, like instruments in an orchestra.
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