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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 SEMAPHORONTassemblage (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,
