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I. Dakskobler: FITOCENOLOŠKAISTRAŽIVANJA ŠUMSKIH EKOSUSTAVANA POČETKU 21. STOLJEĆAŠumarski list br. 1–2, CXXXIII (2009), 53-62 research of plants, including forest vegetation. Nevertheless, the foundations of phytocoenological study of forest ecosystems in the 21stcentury may stay similar to what they have been so far. This means the knowledge of plants, i.e. botanical knowledge, remains essential. A forester who is professionally active in the forest should be familiar with the flora and vegetation of his district, so botany and dendrology in the new study programmes should be taught in the same extent as before, with a sufficient number of lessons left for practical and field work. Forest phytocoenology is their upgrading and its composite part is the knowledge of different methods of vegetation analysis. There are more methods apart from the Central-European method. Lately functional approach has gained momentum in Europe in discussions and research of vegetation, especially of that in disturbed habitats, and in the study of syndynamic processes (compare e.g. Grime 1974, 2001, Klotz et al. 2002). It would be very useful for the southeastern Alpine-Dinaric region with its variegated vegetation to prepare and unify the databases of our numerous relevés, to process them and critically review the correctness of names and justification of some of the syntaxa. This can only be done with consideration of the actual site conditions and the actual phytocoenoses in nature, which means we should not act merely as statisticians or mathematicians, who hardly know anything about the forest. Forest communities, associations treated as abstract units, should be not only floristically (which can be adequately provided with a mathematical processing), but also ecologically grounded, foresters (who are the users of our research) should be able to recognise their stands in the field, and our descriptions ought to provide help to foresters in concrete interventions into the forest. Key words:phytocoenology (phytosociology), historical development, multivariate methods, Slovenia, Croatia. |