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Taxonomy Recognition Day Highlights the Importance of the Discipline

On 23 May, Taxonomy Recognition Day will take place – an international initiative highlighting the importance of the science that identifies, describes, and classifies living organisms. This...

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Go Belowground!

Register for the international PhD course Go Belowground!, focused on the study of plant roots and belowground organs. 13 – 19 September 2026, Pension Kamínek (near Nové...

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Institute of Botany is represented in the Intergovernmental Platform IPBES

Petr Petřík from the Department of Vegetation Ecology at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences has been newly elected to the Multidisciplinary Expert...

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The “White” Beech from the Moravian Karst: How a Tree Can Live for 30 Years Without Photosynthesis

A Czech research team has drawn attention to an extraordinary albino beech from the Moravian Karst. The one-metre-tall tree lacks chlorophyll and, despite being unable to photosynthesise,...

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New publication: Forest-steppe meadows of the Carpathians

A monograph entitled Karpatské lesostepní louky (Forest-steppe meadows of the Carpathians) focusing on one of the richest and, at the same time, least understood Central-European ecosystems has just...

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