Radomir Lakušić

Radomir Lakušić (born March 6, 1933 in Donja Ržanica near Berane ; † August 16, 2005 in Sarajevo ) was a Yugoslav or Montenegrin botanist , biogeographer and plant sociologist , whose field of work was mainly the subalpine and alpine high mountain vegetation of the southeast Dinarides in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro included. Radomir Lakušić was a professor at the universities in Sarajevo and Banja Luka . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Lakušić ".

Life

Lakušić finished eight years of elementary school in Donja Ržanica. In 1953 he graduated from high school in Berane. In the same year he was enrolled in the Biology Faculty of the University of Sarajevo, where he also graduated in 1958. He had written his diploma thesis on the endemic - Dinaric species of the genus Wulfenia . On March 11, 1960 he was appointed assistant to the Sarajevo Faculty of Biology. In 1963 and 1964 he was specializing with Josias Braun-Blanquet at the University of Montpellier in the station Internationale de Géobotanique Mediterranéenne et Alpine ("SIGMA"). His doctoral thesis under the direction of Violotije Blečić , professor of biology at the University of Belgrade, on topics of the alpine vegetation of the Bjelasica ( Biogradska Gora National Park ) in Montenegro marked the beginning of Lakušić's further work on the high mountain plant communities of the central south-east Dinarides ( Maglić , Volujak, Bioć, Durmitor , Bjelasica).

In 1965 he became a lecturer in plant ecology and phytogeography, and in 1970 professor. Lakušić stayed at the University of Sarajevo until 1995, but left his academic place of work due to the war events , poor living and working conditions in post-war Sarajevo and his Serbian origins, which he no longer wanted to stay at the newly reorganized University of Sarajevo. Without having received a university appointment elsewhere, he moved to his home country of Montenegro, worked as a consultant for environmental issues in the nature conservation association of Montenegro until he retired in 1998. He was also employed at the University of Banja Luka, where he taught plant ecology and geography.

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The most widely received scientific work of his more than 300 works was the synthesis of the high mountain vegetation of the southeastern Dinarides, published in German. He became a broader ecologically interested public through the authorship of one of the volumes of the "Nature of Yugoslavia" ( Priroda Jugoslavije ) on high mountain plants ( Planinske biljke , 1984 and 1990), as well as the ecology textbook Ekologija Biljaka. I. - Idioekologija (1989), known.

Lakušić wrote a monograph in 1973 on the genus Edraianthus , for which he highlighted some new species. In particular the genus Edraianthus, for which he set up the illegal genus name "Visiania", was also his later interest.

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Radomir Lakušić at the IPNI

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zlatko Bulić & Sulejman Redžić: Radomir Lakušić . Natura Montenegrina, 8 (3), 201-225, Podgorica 2005 (online: Natura Montenegrina)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Radomir Lakušić: The Vegetation of the Southeastern Dinarides. Vegetatio, XXI, 4-6: 321-373, The Haag 1970 (online: JSTOR)
3. ↑ Radomir Lakušić 1973: Prirodni sistem populacija i vrsta roda Edraianthus DC. Godišnjak Biološkog Instituta Univerziteta u Sarajevu; 26: 1-129, Posebno Izdanje, Trebinje.