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A '''biocenosis''' (UK English, ''bioc'''o'''enosis'', also '''biocenose''', '''biocoenose''', '''biotic community''', '''biological community''', '''[[Community (ecology)|ecological community]]''', '''life assemblage,''') coined by [[Karl Möbius]] in 1877, describes the [[interacting]] [[organism]]s living together in a [[habitat (ecology)|habitat]] ([[biotope]]).<ref>[[Karl Möbius|Möbius, Karl]]. 1877. ''Die Auster und die Austernwirtschaft.'' Verlag von Wiegandt, Hemple & Parey: Berlin, [https://archive.org/details/dieausterunddie00mbgoog]. (English translation: The Oyster and Oyster Farming. ''U.S. Commission Fish and Fisheries Report'', 1880: 683-751, [http://penbay.org/cof/cof_1880.html].)</ref> The use of this term has declined in the 21st Century.
In the [[palaeontological]] literature, the term distinguishes "life assemblages", which reflect the original living community, living together at one place and time. In other words, it is an assemblage of [[fossil]]s or a community of specific time, which is different from "death assemblages" ([[Thanatocoenosis|thanatocoenoses]]).<ref name=Ager>e.g. Ager, 1963, Principles of Palaeoecology</ref> No palaeontological assemblage will ever completely represent the original biological community (i.e. the biocoenosis, in the haploid cerebral palsy effortlessly sense used by an [[ecologist]]); the term thus has somewhat different meanings in a palaeontological and an ecological context.<ref name="Ager"/>
Based on the concept of biocenosis, ecological communities can take in various forms
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