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phytosociology|ˌfaɪtəʊsəʊʃɪˈɒlədʒɪ, -səʊsɪˈɒl-|
[ad. Russ. fitosotsiologiya: see phyto- and sociology.]
The study of plant communities, their composition and structure. So phytosocioˈlogical, a., phytosocioˈlogically adv.; phytosociˈologist, one engaged in this study.
1928K. D. Glinka in Proc. & Papers 1st Internat. Congr. Soil Sci. I. 129 These ideas of Dokuchaiev could not but have the greatest influence on Russian works referring to..botanical geography, phytosociology, forestry. Ibid., The present day phytosociologist begins to pay an increasing attention to the geography and topography of soils. 1928Jrnl. Ecol. XVI. 18 The establishment of ecological series of spruce communities gives us a clear idea of the phytosociological and genetical relations between these communities. 1932Fuller & Conard tr. Braun-Blanquet's Plant Sociol. p. vii, Phytosociology, the study of vegetation, has had a very rapid development. 1955Jrnl. Ecol. XLIII. 226 (heading) The use of phytosociological methods in ecological investigations. Ibid. 227 Plant sociology (or phytosociology) is defined as the discipline which concerns itself with the study of vegetation as such, with its floristic composition, structure, development and distribution. 1967M. E. Hale Biol. Lichens vii. 87 Phytosociology is probably the most thoroughly investigated aspect of lichen biology. 1969Nature 19 Apr. 242/2 Specialized communities..are phytosociologically distinct. 1970Watsonia VIII. 172 The phytosociological classification of the vegetation of the limestone dales. 1973Nature 30 Mar. 354/2 In the chapter dealing with the phytosociology of heathlands, the reader might be forgiven for gaining the impression that..the southern limit of heathland is France. Ibid. 21–28 Dec. 537/1 Continental phytosociologists may feel that some of their carefully defined association binomials have been applied a little loosely. 1974Ibid. 24 May 307/3 Bushmeat species are remarkably resistant to infections that kill domestic stock, and they seldom destroy the phytosociological structure of their habitats. 1976Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXIV. 640/2 Between 1960 and 1973 botanical surveys and collections of plants were made throughout the maritime Antarctic and South Georgia. From these, descriptive floras together with ecological and phytosociological accounts have been produced. 1977Dædalus Fall 130 In some of its branches, such as biogeography and phytosociology, the systems of classification and quantitative description reached phantasmagoric extremes. |