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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0034-7744</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de Biología Tropical]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. biol. trop]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0034-7744</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad de Costa Rica]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S0034-77442015000300575</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[¿Existen realmente los ensambles y ensamblajesecológicos?]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Do biological assemblages and ensembles really exist?]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Monge-Nájera]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Julián]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,julianmonge@gmail.com  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2015</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2015</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>63</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<fpage>575</fpage>
<lpage>577</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0034-77442015000300575&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0034-77442015000300575&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0034-77442015000300575&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen:En años recientes ha aparecido la palabra "ensamble" (con menos frecuencia, "ensamblaje") en la literatura biológica en castellano, con dos significados diferentes: grupos de especies de un hábitat relacionadas taxonómicamente;y grupos de especies de un lugar sin interacciones ecológicas.Tras analizar las definiciones de la palabra en el original francés, así como sus usos técnicos en castellano e inglés, concluyo que las palabras assemblagey ensembletienen traducción adecuada al español, assemblagecomo asambleay ensemblecomo conjunto,pero en la mayoría de los casos tienen un aporte dudoso y complican innecesariamente los textos, por lo que según los principio de concisión y comunicación, conviene evitarlas.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract:In recent years the terms assemblageand ensemblehave become more frequent in the ecological literature. After analyzing the definitions of the words in the French original, as well as their use in English and Spanish and opinions on how they can be defined, I conclude that the words assemblageand ensemblerarely improve scientific communication and can be eliminated from most ecological articles. The few justified exceptions are articles in which the emphasis is on how taxonomically close species interact trophically.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[definition of ensemble and assemblage in biology]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[ecological ensemble]]></kwd>
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