Allium section Codonoprasum includes a group of evolutionarily young taxa with unclear taxonomic boundaries, evolutionary relationships and complex sy......
Genome size and GC content are basic species-specific attributes often delimiting genera or higher taxa, which enable the identification of polyploidy......
Tracing human-vegetation interactions that occurred in the past has always been one of the key topics of paleoecology. Here we use the pollen and arch......
Fallopia sect. Reynoutria members (knotweeds) represent one of the most invasive alien plants in Europe. However, several aspects of their biology, in......
The twelfth part of the series on the distributions of vascular plants in the Czech Republic includes grid maps of 105 taxa in the genera Androsace, A......
Molecular identification of organisms is now a common practice and, increasingly, species are identified from environmental samples. However, for most......
The class Montio-Cardaminetea includes vegetation of springs with constant water flow. These habitats, which function as islands for highly specialize......
Conservation strategies often assume that the total number of species at a specific location can be used as a proxy for other biodiversity dimensions,......
There is a long tradition in Europe of assigning ecological indicator values to plants and using these values in ecological research. A special case i......
Understanding drivers of species performance is crucial for their effective conserva-tion. Despite a range of studies on the effects of single biotic ......
Rhododendron tomentosum is a vascular plant common in northern regions of Europe, Asia and North America. In central Europe, this species is considere......
Calcareous and rich fens harbour the unique biodiversity of plants and invertebrates. They are extremely sensitive to landscape changes because of the......
Mesic semi-natural grasslands have usually been and mostly still are, too intensively managed in central Europe, which includes over application of fe......
The Pladias (Plant Diversity Analysis and Synthesis) Database of the Czech Flora and Vegetation was developed by the Pladias project team in 2014-2018......
The 10th part of the series on the distributions of vascular plants in the Czech Republic includes grid maps of 44 taxa in the genera Carex, Colchicum......