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This symposium is dealing with various relations between plant species as basic systematic units and plant communities as basic vegetation units. It will thereby touch upon relations between the respective ecological disciplines as well, disciplines we used to call autecology and synecology. This twofold theme has been a favourite one for a long time to the colleague and friend whose 60th birthday we are celebrating: Victor Westhoff. When we take his thesis in 1947, on the vegetation of dunes and salt marshes on the Dutch islands of Terschelling, Vlieland and Texel, as a starting point, Westhoff s ecological endeavour spans a period of 30 years.
Nomenclaturre of plant species follows Heukels-van Ooststroom. 1975. Flora van Nederland. 18e druk. Noordhoff, Groningen.
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Adriani, M.J., Van Der Maarel, E. (1978). Plant Species and Plant Communities: An Introduction. In: van der Maarel, E., Werger, M.J.A. (eds) Plant Species and Plant Communities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9987-9_3
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