14532 IUPAC Gold Book - community conditioning hypothesis 10.1351/goldbook.14532 14532 current 1 Hypothesis that ecological communities retain information about events in their history and will not return to their original state after perturbation. 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. community https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/14531 PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 858 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14532/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14532/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14532/plain 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. 10.1351/goldbook.14532 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-18T09:09:22+00:00