APPROACHES, LEVELS AND ELEMENTS OF VEGETATION

摘要: The paper deals with the history of vegetation science viewed as a succession paradigms. Alternative methodological approaches and alternative ways viewing elementary parts at coenotic level are replacing each other in course time. Vegetation research always involves simplification objects by means reduction generalization. At any there certain traditional to describe multiplicity structure. According association approach, is mostly reduced plant communities. proponents continuum approach reduce structure population level, aggregate populations various ways. ecosystem functional, more or less self-regulating elements can be described.