Pavle Fukarek

A forest scientist , dendrologist , botanist , biogeographer and plant sociologist whose field of work includes general questions about forest vegetation on the Balkan Peninsula, particularly Bosnia and Herzegovina. Pavle Fukarek was from 1961 professor of the Sarajevo Forestry Faculty. He published over 300 scientific papers and is considered the most important dendrologist and one of the most important plant sociologists in the former Yugoslavia.