The most important researchers of forests in Serbia

The exhibition by the Natural History Museum entitled Drvo ili život sam (Tree or life itself, 2012) was accompanied by a publication that included a review on forests in Serbia in the present and in history. While the publication was being prepared, the idea to present the prominent researchers of forest vegetation of Serbia and their most important papers on this topic in one place as a series of short texts arose. Therefore this paper appeared as a tribute to several prominent scientists, and as with any story from the history of Serbian botany it must start with Josif Pančić.Bulletin of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade (2012), 5: 103-12