%0 Article
%T Symposium on forest types and forest ecosystems during the IX international botanical congress Montreal, August 24th 1959.
%A Heikurainen, L.
%A Finnish Society of Forest Science
%D 1960
%J Silva Fennica
%V 0
%N 105
%R doi:10.14214/sf.a14129
%U https://silvafennica.fi/article/4688
%X <p>The paper is a review on the topics of Symposium on forest types and forest ecosystems, held in connection to the IX internal botanical congress in Montreal in August 1959, the chairman of which was Ilmari Hustich. The article includes 18 preparatory papers that were distributed among the participants of the symposium. The common theme of the papers was the question of finding common platform for the different schools of forest types and forest ecosystems. In addition to the papers, the article includes a summary of the proceedings and discussions of the symposium.</p>
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<p>The following papers were presented in the symposium:</p>
<p>Aichinger, E. Können wir eine gemeinsame Platform für die verscheidenen Schulen in der Waldtypenklassifikationen finden?</p>
<p>Arnborg, T. Can we find a common platform for the different schools of forest type classifications?</p>
<p>Dansereau, P. A combined structural and floristic approach to the definition of forest ecosystems.</p>
<p>Daubenmire, R. Some major problems in vegetation classification</p>
<p>Ellenberg, H. Können wir eine gemeinsame Platform für die verscheidenen Schulen in der Waldtypenklassifikationen finden?</p>
<p>Hills, G.A. Comparison of forest ecosystems (vegetation and soil) in different climatic zones</p>
<p>Kalela, A. Classification of the vegetation, especially of the forest, with particular reference to regional problems</p>
<p>Krajina, V.J. Can we find a common platform for the different schools of forest type classifications?</p>
<p>Kühler, A.W. Mapping tropical forest vegetation</p>
<p>Linteau, A. Y. a-t-il. Un terrain d’entente possible entre les différentes écoles au sujet de la classification de types forestiers?</p>
<p>Medvecka-Kornaś, A. Some problems of forest climaxes in Poland</p>
<p>Ovington, J.D. The ecosystem concept as aid to forest classification</p>
<p>Puri, G.S. The concept of climax in forest botany as applied in India</p>
<p>Rowe, J.S. Can we find a common platform for the different schools of forest type classifications?</p>
<p>Scamoni, A. Können wir eine gemeinsame Grundlage für die verscheidenen Schulen in der Waldtypenklassifikationen finden?</p>
<p>Sukachev, V.N. The correlation between the concept ’forest ecosystem’ and ’forest biogeocoenise’ and their importance for the classification of forests</p>
<p>Webb, L.J. A new attempt to classify Australian rain forest </p>