Petr Pyšek from the IB will be awarded Robert H. Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award

Ecological Society of America (ESA) announced 2017 award recipients - Petr Pyšek from the IB will be awarded Robert H. Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award. The Whittaker Award...

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Horizontal gene transfer between sexually incompatible grass lineages

Three scientists from the Institute of Botany in Průhonice (Václav Mahelka, Karol Krak, Judith Fehrer) have, in cooperation with colleages from the Institute of Experimental Botany in...

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Special issue of Folia Geobotanica on wetlands has been published

The special issue of Folia Geobotanica on wetlands was dedicated to Dagmar Dykyjova (1914-2011), an outstanding plant ecologist and physiologist who devoted much of her research to...

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Czech botanists contributed to the first ever Red list of all European habitats

For the first time, a comprehensive assessment of European habitats has been carried out, providing a clear picture of the state of the 490 habitats in 35...

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New classification system for European vegetation

A new classification system for vegetation in Europe entitled Vegetation of Europe: Hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities (fulltext, press release) was...

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Jan Kolář was awarded the Dean’s Award

Jan Kolář from the Department of Vegetation Ecology was awarded the Dean’s Award for his Ph.D. dissertation Territoriality and Regional Aspects in the Final Eneolithic in Moravia defended...

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Petr Pyšek was awarded the František Běhounek Award

Petr Pyšek was awarded the František Běhounek Award for promoting and popularizing Czech science and spreading the good name of the Czech Republic. The award associated with...

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Three researchers from the Institute of Botany appear on a list of the most cited scientists worldwide

This year, Professor Petr Pyšek has appeared on the Highly Cited Researchers list for the third year running, while Prof. Vojtěch Jarošík has been named for the...

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Invitation to the exhibition How to preserve our landscape for future generations

Until 31 March 2017, Visitors centre of the Průhonice park hosts the exhibition How to preserve our landscape for future generations, created by Biology Centre of the...

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Ability to self-fertilize helps plants to spread around the world

A study led by ecologists from the University of Konstanz, Mialy Razanajatovo and Mark van Kleunen, with participation of two researchers from the Institute of Botany, The...

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Open House at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno

On Wednesday November 2, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Brno Research Division of the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Lidická 25/27, Brno)...

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Nature highlights a recent paper by P. Szabó et al. of the LONGWOOD project

A highlight of the paper Using historical ecology to reassess the conservation status of coniferous forests in Central Europe published in Conservation Biology appeared in the Research...

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Martin Kopecký from Institute of Botany was awarded the Award of the Czech Academy of Sciences for young researchers

Martin Kopecký from Institute of Botany was awarded the Award of the CAS for young scientific employees for outstanding results of scientific work, achieved with the financial...

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Forests and climate change – how to take responsibility?

The Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Biology Centre CAS and the Commission for the Environment CAS, cordially invites you...

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An interview with Péter Szabó from IB has been published in the EC magazine research*eu

"I would advise against grand conservation schemes", says Péter Szabó, principal investigator of the ERC project LONGWOOD from IB, in an interview published in research*eu - the...

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A new issue of Folia Geobotanica has been published – 1/2016

Changes in the functional trait composition and diversity of meadow communities induced by Rhinanthus minor L. by O. Mudrák et al. or Do Landscape Structure and Socio-Economic...

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Plant Biology Europe EPSO / FESPB Congress 2016 was held in June in Prague with a support of the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

During 26-29 June, 2016, one of the most importnat meetings in plant biology this year „Plant Biology Europe EPSO / FESPB Congress 2016“ was held in Prague....

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Programme of the music festival A-fest in Park September 3

The programme of the music festival A-fest in Park which will take place on Saturday September 3 in the Průhonice Park and Castle has been published.

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Pavel Pipek from IB has been awarded The Best Student Poster Award at ECBB

Pavel Pipek from IB has been awarded The Best Student Poster Award at the 8th European conference on Behavioural Biology, 12.-18. 7. 2016, Vienna (http://ecbb2016-vienna.com), for his...

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Second part of the Průhonice Park, so called “Obora”, is open again

We would like to inform you all about reopened II. part of the Průhonice Park, so called „Obora“, from June 24, 2016.

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