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It is necessary to modernize the definitions of the basic concepts and terms in ecology, including the terms ecosystem and biogeocenosis. A constructive attempts to do so was made in the paper entitled: New definitions of the concepts and terms ecosystem and biogeocenosis (published in: Doklady Biological Sciences, Volume 383, p. 141-143). The paper continues the development of basic concepts of ecology with the milestones in 1935, when the term 'ecosystem' was coined by Prof. A. Tansley, and in the 1940s, when another important term 'biogeocoenosis' was introduced by Prof. V. N. Sukachev. The paper taked into attention a significant amount of new facts that had accumulated in ecology since that time. The author proposed some new variants of the definition of the two terms that reflected the modern vision of the basics of ecology. The new definitions avoided the vicious circle of using other terms that in turn requested their definitions. The paper underlined 5 key features of the proposed modernized definition of ecosystem, 8 key features of the proposed definition of biogeocenosis, and 8 distinctions between the new proposed definition of biogeocenosis and the classical definition by V.N. Sukachev. https://www.researchgate.net/file.FileLoader.html?key=997c8c86899d5a6e24531054ad1bcd1e; www.springerlink.com/index/VPG4YU2V3YD6T97B.pdf; DOI 10.1023/A:1015393924967;