The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Dominants

the predominant species in a plant community (phytocoenosis).

Species are considered dominant for a given stratum, or story, of the plant community; any story may have one or more dominants. There are three dominants, for example, in a moss-whortleberry-fir forest: green moss, whortleberry, and spruce. The so-called absolute dominance of a species is determined by the area occupied by its members in proportion to that of the sample. This measure is sometimes replaced by that of relative dominance, the ratio of the area covered by the members of a species to the area covered by all plants in a story. Dominance is also sometimes expressed by the volume of organic material represented by the species, or by the number of that species in the area. The units in plant communities—associations, formations, and so forth—are labeled according to the names of their dominant species. In the USSR about 1,500 species are found as dominant; they make up the bulk of the plant products used by man. As indicators of soil and microclimatic conditions, dominants serve as a basis of agricultural zoning.

REFERENCE

Bykov, B. A. Dominanty rastitel’nogo pokrova Sovetskogo Soiuza,vols. 1-3. Alma-Ata, 1960-65.

Mentioned in

References in periodicals archive

It's one thing to have a manipulative submissive, but it's a WHOLE different situation to have a manipulative Dominant. These types of Dominants are not someone you want to learn from and definitely not someone you want to play with.

To earn your leather was where someone, either your mentor, or your Dominant, or your community would present you with leather because they felt you earned it.

When a submissive would mentor with a Dominant, one of the first things they would learn was how to properly take care of the Dom's boots.

Earning your leathers

In addition, previous work in crayfish showed that our method of coding aggressive and submissive acts led to unambiguous identification of social rank, which was assessed by determining status-dependent priority of resource use (Herberholz et al., 2007) and by parallel expression of non-agonistic behaviors in dominants and subordinates (Herberholz et al., 2003).

In the initial phase (P1), a dominance relationship was established, for which a significant difference (Wilcoxon signed-rank test: P [less than or equal to] 0.01) in dominance indices of dominants (97.9% [+ or -] 3.4%, n =12) and subordinates (20.5% [+ or -] 9.5%, n = 12) was found.

Effects of different social and environmental conditions on established dominance relationships in crayfish

So I would give up momentary power, but I have the power to get it back." Nonetheless, dominants and submissives do have different roles and different types of influence.

Several dominants and submissives stated that subs have most or all of the power because they are typically the ones who set the boundaries.

Perks, problems, and the people who play: a qualitative exploration of dominant and submissive BDSM roles

Tibbetts tested dominant wasps, as well as lower-ranking workers, and she altered both facial and abdominal stripes.

Do insects know each other's faces? (Wasp Painting)

Months of fetish parties gave way to the realization of performance sex, which then splits into the "S&M bunnies" and "straw dominants" versus the dyed-in-the-wool "sexual outlaws." Now that fetish parties have gone mainstream, all the hardcore people have gone back underground.

"When I first started this I took my proposal including the capitalist theories, to the S&M community, but they didn't buy it." The dominant /submissive theory of capitalism, which is rife with alpha males--rulers of the universe snapping at each others heels, ready to bury the loser as part of the public spectacle of the almighty "win"--interfaced with the submissive consumers, happily ready to offer up their financial soul to what Fromm calls the "anonymous authority," whether it be the media, advertising, the Nike "swooshstika," Tommy Hilfiger or IKEA.

Alt.sex.documentarie: Cristine Richey's Tops & bottoms

Originally in the old tradition, when people came into the community they came in as a submissive and served (mentored) with someone for several years before they were elevated to a Dominant position.

The only person you should submit to is the Dominant you are associated with.

Leather life