About the book: 1986 / Forest, meadow, swamp, wheat field or apple orchard - all these are plant communities that surround us. How they are organized and how the science that studies them, phytocenology, developed is described in this book. Phytocenology is the basis of a modern environmentally sound system of vegetation use and protection. The reader will learn a lot of new and interesting things about the behavior of plants in communities, about the reasons why in one case dozens of species grow together, and in another - even several cannot get along.