(A review) N. B. Ermakov. Diversity of boreal vegetation of North Asia. Hemiboreal forests. Classifiction and ordination. Novosibirsk, 2003. 232 p.

B. M. Mirkin, V. B. Martynenko, L. G. Naumova

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31111/vegrus/2003.05.84

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One of the principles determining the development of any science and its scientific community, is a divergentconvergent model of knowledge development: emerging scientific concepts, the differences are determined by many factors — social, ethnic, features of research objects, etc., gradually converge into a unified system of representations (Mirkin, Naumova, 1998). The clearest example of the existence of this model is the development of the theory and practice of classification of vegetation. The staggering inconsistency in approaches to the classification of vegetation in the late XIX — the first half of the twentieth century, about 40 years ago, wrote R. Whittaker (1962), in the second half of the twentieth century sharply went on the decline and clearly designates the centripetal tendencies on the basis of ideas of J. Braun-Blanquet (Westhoff, Maarel, 1973). About the prospects of this approach, by the way, wrote R. Whittaker.

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Mirkin B. M., Martynenko V. B., Naymova L. G. 2003. (A review) N. B. Ermakov. Diversity of boreal vegetation of North Asia. Hemiboreal forests. Classifiction and ordination. Novosibirsk, 2003. 232 p. // Vegetation of Russia. N 5. P. 84–87. https://doi.org/10.31111/vegrus/2003.05.84

Received October 20 2003