MSM 0021622416
The subject of the research plan is study of biodiversity on the level of populations and communities on various temporal and spatial scales. It focuses on interactions with the environment, mutual interactions between organisms, historical and evolutionary interpretation of existing patterns, identification of biotic indicators of ecological processes, and the development of formalized typologies of communities and habitats in terrestrial, semiterrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Research deals with model groups of organisms, defined based on taxonomy or ecology, accross the phylogenetic system, including environmental bacteria, vascular plants, invertebrates including parasitic ones, and vertebrates. Besides traditional methodologies established in each field, general methods of molecular genetics, bioinformatics, geoinformatics, applied statistics, and analytical chemistry are utilised in the research, all provided for by integrated laboratories.
Project period 2005 – 2011