community conditioning hypothesis

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Hypothesis that ecological communities retain information about events in their history and will not return to their original state after perturbation.
Note: This hypothesis was derived from the concept of nonequilibrium community ecology and was developed as a framework for understanding the persistence of dose-related responses in multispecies toxicity tests.
Source:
PAC, 2009, 81, 829. (Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)) on page 858 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'community conditioning hypothesis' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.14532 RIS BibTex EndNote
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