The first use of this term is usually attributed to Karl Möbius in 1877, but already in 1825, the French naturalist Adolphe Dureau de la Malle used the term "societé" about an assemblage of plant individuals of different species.
===Pojem biocenoze: Wallace in Mobius===Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwinov sodobnik in tekmec je bil prvi, ki je predlagal pojem geografija živalskih vrst.