Foundation and Aims

At the end of the 1950ies vegetation scientists Erwin Aichinger from Austria, Sandro Pignatti from Italy and Maks Wraber from Slovenia met and decided to found a society to stimulate the cross-border cooperation for studies of the botanical interesting area of the Eastern Alpine and Dinaric Region. In 1960, the first meeting was held in Klagenfurt.

In the beginning, the society was designed as a section of the International Society for Vegetation Science, but acted independently. After some time it changed to a completely independent Society with name: “Eastern Alpine and Dinaric Society for Vegetation Science”.

Aim of the Society is to enforce the personal contacts between vegetation scientists of this area, to facilitate the exchange of results and experiences within meetings and field trips. Until 1972 meetings were hold on a yearly basis, since then every two years, every time organised in a different country, on a specific issue.

Invitations for discussions and field trips were also organised as additional activities.

The society cultivates contacts between scientists of central and south-eastern Europe and it specially gives young scientists the possibility to present themselves and their work with presentations and posters.

The members mainly come from southern and south-eastern parts of Europe, but it is open for vegetation scientist from all countries. Equal languages on the meetings were German, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene. Soon, German got the best understood language and became almost the language of the meetings. At the meeting in Zagreb (1994), English was added to the list of languages and nowadays it is a dominant language on the meetings.

References regarding history of the Society:

Aichinger E., 1970 – Grundung der Ostalpin-Dinarischen Gesellschaft für Vegetationskunde. 50 Jahre Volksabstimmung. Sonderdruck, pp. 1, Klagenfurt.

Dakskobler I., 1994 – Poročilo o srečanju Vshodnoalpsko-dinarskega društva za proučevanje vegetacije – Ljubljana, 7-11. julija 1993. Hladnikia (Ljubljana), 2: 47-        51.

Fukarek P., 1962 – Osnivački sastanak sekcije za istočne Alpe i Dinarske planine Internacionalnog udruženja za istraživanje vegetacije. Narodni Šumar (Sarajevo),      15: 183-184.

Fukarek P., 1963 – II. radni sastanak sekcije za istočne i dinarske Alpe Međunarodnog udruženja za istraživanje vegetacije. Narodni Šumar (Sarajevo), 16:

Fukarek P., 1970 – Organizacija i sprovođenje Simpozijuma/ Die Organisation und Durchführung des Symposiums. Akad. Nauka BiH. Pos. Izd., 15(4): 5-17.                Sarajevo.

Hofmann A., 1969 – Introduzione/Vorwort. Mitt. Ostalp.-din. Pflanzensoziol. Arbeitsgem., 9: 3-10. Camerino.

Pitschmann H., 1970 – Chronik der Tagung. Mitt. Ostalp.-din. Ges. Vegetkde, 11: 1-2.

Puncer I. & Wraber T., 1978 – Kronika 14. Zborovanja. Spominski zbornik Maksa Wraberja 1905-1972. Mitt. Ostalp.-din. Ges. Vegetkde, 14: 39-46. Ljubljana.

Schiechtl H. M., Stern R., 1981 – Vorwort und Tagungschronik. Angew. Pflanzensoziol., 26: 3-4. Wien.

Trinajstić, I. 1996: 35 Jahre Ostalpin-Dinarische Gesellschaft für Vegetationskunde (1960-1995). Ann. Mus. civ. Rovereto 11(supl. II): 5-8.

Wraber M., 1961 – Prvo zborovanje vzhodnoalpskih in dinarskih fitosociologov. Biol. Vestn. (Ljubljana), 9: 144-146.

Wraber M., 1962 – Drugo zborovanje vzhodnoalpskih in dinarskih fitosociologov. Biol. Vestn. (Ljubljana), 10: 142-145.

Wraber M., 1963 – Bericht über die erste und zweite Tagung der ostalpinen und dinarischen Pflanzensoziologen. Vegetatio, 11 (5-6): 387-394.

Wraber M., 1964 – Uvod, Einführung, Itroduzione. Acta Bot. Croat., Vol. Extraord.: 9- 14. Zagreb.

Wraber M., 1966 – VI. zborovanje vzhodnoalpskih in dinarskih fitosociologov (München 1965). Biol. Vestn. (Ljubljana), 14: 131-133.

Wraber M., 1967 – VII. in VIII. zborovanje vzhodnoalpskih in dinarskih fitosociologov. Biol. Vestn. (Ljubljana), 15: 135-137.

Wraber M., 1967 – Chronik der Tagung. Mitt. Ostalp.-din. Pflanzensoziol. Arbeitsgem., 9: 3-10. Trieste.