• Jan Kučera
• Táňa Štechová
• Jiří Košnar
• Eva Holá
• Alžběta Manukjanová
• Alumni

 

Education

• Charles University Prague, Faculty of Natural Sciences (1990 - 1995), diploma thesis: "Společenstva epilitických mechorostů na území Národního parku Šumava

  [Communities of epilithic bryophytes in the National Park Šumava]" (supervised by Prof. Jiří Váňa).

• University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (1995 - 1999), Ph.D. studies, thesis "Taxonomická studie skupiny Didymodon rigidulus (Bryopsida, Pottiaceae) v Evropě [Taxonomic study of Didymodon rigidulus (Bryopsida, Pottiaceae) group in Europe]" (školitel Prof. Jiří Váňa).

Research interests

• taxonomy and phylogeny of mosses (particularly Pottiaceae), bryofloristics – particularly mountain and Northern ekosystemsy, autecology of rare species, particularly in connection to systematics and threat eveluation

Grants

• GAAV IAA601410703 'Molecular and ecological aspects of the biology of rare bryophytes: baseline data for the effective conservation' (2007 - 2009).
• GA ČR 206/01/0411 'Synthesis of bryologic data from the selected biodoversity centres of two mountain ranges of the High Sudetes (Krkonoše, Hrubý Jeseník)' (2001-2003).
• GA ČR 206/97/0274 ‘Key to bryophytes of the Czech Republic’ (1997-1999).

Membership in scientific societies

Czech Botanical Society including its Bryological and Lichenological Section , British Bryological Society, International Association for Plant Taxonomy,

Editorial boards

Preslia, Arctoa, Opera Corcontica, Časopis Slezského Zemského Muzea Opava and Silva Gabreta.

Teaching

• Biology of Bryophytes
• Plant Biology
• Field Course of Bryology
• Botany of Higher Plants (standard, extended versions)
• Course of the Alpine botany and ecology

Publications