Burdon-Sanderson, J. S.
1894. Biology in Relation to Other Natural Sciences. Smithsonian Report for 1893, pp. 435-463.
Möbius, K.
1877. Die Auster und die Austernwirthschaft. pp. 126. Berlin.
On page 72 he proposes the term “biocœnose” for the group of animals which live together in the same habitat. Not seen by writer.
1883. The Oyster and Oyster-Culture. Rep. U. S. Fish Comm., 1880, Part VIII, pp. 683-751.
Translation of preceding paper. On pp. 721-729 he discusses “An Oyster-Bank as a Biocönose, or a Social Community”; on page 723 he proposes the word “biocœnosis.” An illuminating paper.
Dahl, F.
1902. Die Ziele der vergleichenden “Ethologie” (d. i. Biologie im älteren engeren Sinne). Verh. V. Inter. Zoöl.-Cong. 1901, pp. 296-300.
1908. Grundsätze und Grundbegriffe der biocönotischen Forschung. Zool. Anz., Bd. XXXIII, pp. 349-353.