sociation

noun3

1. •
   The stable interactions and influences among the species within a coenose.

   • Therefore a comparative analysis and a classification of bog plant communities must be undertaken on the basis of sociations. — 2013
2. •
   Interactions and relationships among people.

   • Risk cultures lie in non-institutional and anti-institutional sociations. — 2000
3. •
   A plant community.

   • In the classification, sociations are first distinguished by the dominant or constant species, or by a combination of them. — 1980