Průhonice Park in the Passage of Time
We would like to invite you to the international conference Průhonice Park in the Passage of Time which will take place on 21-22 May 2025 on the...
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Global Study Reveals “Dark Diversity” of Plants
According to a new study by a team of more than 200 botanists from around the world, published in the prestigious journal Nature, the vegetation of natural...
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Index Seminum helps research and the protection of plant diversity
This year, the Institute of Botany published its 60th “list of seeds” or Index Seminum. It is a catalogue of wild or cultivated plants used for the non-commercial...
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POPBIO 2025
Registration for the international conference on plant population biology, organized by the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Faculty of...
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New Flora and Vegetation of Nepal
Due to the high topographical diversity, Nepal has a very unique flora and vegetation and plant life of Nepal accounts for 20% of the Himalayan biodiversity. New...
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Belowground plant organs and their functional ecology
Special issue of Folia Geobotanica edited by Jitka Klimešová is devoted to belowground plant organs. It presents 7 papers from 4 continents (South America, North America, Asia,...
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Researchers from the Institute of Botany discovered a new type of coexistence between algae and fungi
Researchers from the Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, described the symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae which science has largely overlooked until now. The coexistence...
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Hundred-year-old riddle in botany reveals key plant adaptation to dry land
The green world that we live in would not have been possible without hidden changes to the plant body over the last 400 million years. To grow...
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British Ecological Society Harper Prize 2021 awarded to Dina int Zandt
The John L Harper Early Career Researcher Award is given each year to the best paper in the Journal of Ecologyz by an early career author at...
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Celebrate with us the 60th anniversary of the Institute of Botany
To celebrate our anniversary, we have prepared an online seminar with distinguished guests from around the world who will reflect on the importance of classical botany in...
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The Life for Minuartia project has been selected as one of the finalists for the LIFE Awards 2022
The project is already considered one of the twelve "Best LIFE Projects". The award is given annually by the European Commission in cooperation with the National Focal...
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We condemn Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and its people
We hereby publicly condemn Russia's aggression against Ukraine and its people. We cooperate with Ukrainian scientists in our research areas in western Ukraine and the White Carpathians....
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Number of Earth’s tree species estimated to be 14% higher than currently known, with some 9,200 species yet to be discovered
A new study involving more than 100 scientists from across the globe and the largest forest database yet assembled estimates that there are about 73,000 tree species...
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Institute of Botany of the CAS celebrates its 60th anniversary
On 1 January 2022, the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences celebrated 60 years since its foundation. In the six decades of its existence,...
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The global loss of floristic uniqueness
Regional species assemblages have been shaped by colonization, speciation and extinction over millions of years. Humans have altered biogeography by introducing species to new ranges. However, an...
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The Institute of Botany has received an international award in human resource management, the “HR Excellence in Research”
From October 2021, the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences is included in the list of institutions that have been awarded the "Quality Mark"...
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A garden in the desert at Expo 2020
At the heart of the Czech pavilion is the S.A.W.E.R. (Solar Air Water Energy Resource) system, which produces water from dry desert air using only solar energy....
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33rd Conference of the Plant Population Biology Section of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ)
We invite you to the on-line POPBIO 2021 conference from 27th to 29th May 2021. The conference is hosting about one hundred participants each year with presentations...
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New book: Atlas of Stem Anatomy of Arctic and Alpine Plants Around the Globe
Approximately 350 species are presented in the first book providing comprehensive information on the anatomy and ecology of arctic and alpine plants from cold sites around the...
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Looking deep into nature
Over 150 researchers at the IB look deep into taxonomy, evolution and ecology of plants and fungi. They seek to better understand the complex relationships in nature to help protect biodiversity and the natural environment. For more information, view our Presentation or explore our Research section.