commensalism

interaction between two organisms living together in more or less intimate association in a relationship in which one benefits and the other is unaffected.
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commensalism

Summary

commensalism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (544 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • commensalism's image is recorded as Epiphytes costa rica santa elena.jpg[2].
  • commensalism's image is recorded as Spearfish remora.jpg[3].
  • commensalism's GND ID is recorded as 4278751-8[4].
  • commensalism's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85028900[5].
  • commensalism's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 145956171[6].
  • commensalism's subclass of is recorded as symbiosis[7].
  • commensalism's Commons category is recorded as Commensalism[8].
  • commensalism's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 35111[9].
  • commensalism's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0jkz2[10].
  • commensalism's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 577.852[11].
  • commensalism's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0092142[12].
  • commensalism's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • commensalism's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14].
  • commensalism's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/commensalism[15].
  • commensalism's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/commensality[16].
  • commensalism's different from is recorded as parasitism[17].
  • commensalism's different from is recorded as predation[18].
  • commensalism's different from is recorded as amensalism[19].
  • commensalism's different from is recorded as mutualism[20].
  • commensalism's NALT ID is recorded as 28122[21].
  • commensalism's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as commensalisme[22].
  • commensalism's NE.se ID is recorded as kommensalism[23].
  • commensalism's Quora topic ID is recorded as Commensalism[24].
  • commensalism's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as phoresy[25].
  • commensalism's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrt8wjd7344crjcw4kcm9nj[26].

Why It Matters

commensalism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (544 views/month).[1] commensalism has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] commensalism is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Gene Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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