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Autocenosis and democenosis as individual- and population-level ecological categories in terms of symbiogenesis and systems approach

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According to the basic concept of the theory dealt with in this study, autocenosis, i.e., a self-regulatory host-symbiont system, rather than an individual, is the individual-level unit. Then, democenosis, which is a system of autocenoses, corresponds to the population level. Therefore, natural selection of autocenoses rather than individuals occurs in a democenosis, and auto- and democenoses, rather than “individuals” and “populations,” are components of food chains and webs. However, the symbiotic approach does not exclude the population paradigm and will be developed in parallel with it.

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Original Russian Text © A.B. Savinov, 2011, published in Ekologiya, 2011, No. 3, pp. 163–169.

The basic concepts of this study have been presented at the 8th All-Russia Population Workshop (Nizhni Novgorod State University, 2005) and IV All-Russia Congress of the Parasitological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2008).

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Savinov, A.B. Autocenosis and democenosis as individual- and population-level ecological categories in terms of symbiogenesis and systems approach. Russ J Ecol 42, 179–185 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413611030131

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