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18 | I. The aim and position of zoocoenology in the system of biological sciences
Plate I
The system of biological sciences
Idiobiology
developmental
morphology taxonomy biology distribution physiology
_ LS |
(form) at (material)
individuum
SEMAPHORONT¬
assemblage
(form) CT (material)
. |
NN + animal N
phyto- & zoocoenosis plant and animal
+ microbiom matter
Va |
biocoenogy —————>- production biology
Synbiology
In recent decades, almost in front of our eyes, a new science has developed
that aims to uncover the reciprocities that these two facets of the living world
hide. All that zoologists cultivate today, under the names of zoocoenology
or biocoenology, is none other than the quantitative and qualitative analysis
of the “associated animals” of the plant cover and, by common agreement,
this equates to biocoenology itself. If, however, we examine our subject from
the theory of knowledge, we inevitably realise that, by this process, the whole
flow of research has somehow been channelled into that blind alley. As soon
as we accept that the organism and a community of organisms are two,