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and the continuous interrelations, of the two groups of organisms, plants
and animals.
Plant sociology, as well as zoocoenology, includes a series of sub-fields of
research. These are: synphysiology, the physiological links of the groups of
organisms, and, based on these relationships; syngenetics, the formation and
developmental history of associations; and synmorphology, the structure,
composition, and organisation. On this basis, syntaxonomy represents the
system of associational categories. Given this understanding, synchorology
deals with the distribution of these associations and, finally, synchronology
examines the history of the associations.
In the system presented, we followed Dudich (1938), except that synecology
is missing; synecology is removed from its subordinate position and, due to
being the “problem” discipline of these relationships, is now placed above all
other branches of synbiology (see Plate I). We were forced to do this because,
according to our vision, the first fundamental question we meet when
identifying an association is a synecological one. Whilst we can study either
morphological, or material aspects, it is unavoidable that we start our work
with an a priori synecological view; because all coexistence is a synecological
problem, and we can only establish the categorical rank of the unity from
the realised morphological and material realities.
As soon as we consider the semaphoront as the basis of a community
that, by necessity, belongs to a given community, we unavoidably meet the
united reality of the plant cover + animal community (the animal “fillers”;
“Tierfuellung”, Schwenke, 1953).