Department of Plant Systematics

- plant taxonomy (vascular plants and mosses)

 

studies on variability at intraspecies and interspecies levels
(Oenothera, Dactylorhiza, Anthoxanthum, Viola, Centaurea genus)

- botanical recording including herbarium (KTU) (vascular plants and mosses)

 

* recording * data bases * collections * specimens for the region, Poland (Atlas of Vascular Plants Distribution in Poland - ATPOL) and world

- nature conservation (vascular plants and mosses)

 

* "red lists" * "Polish Red Data Book of Plants" * European and worldwide "red lists" * trends in plant species extinction * synthetic knowledge of changes in global biodiversity * Important Plant Areas (IPAs) in Poland within the Planta Europa programme

- plant invasions

 

* origin, routes and the rates of spread of alien plants in Poland * biology and ecology of alien plant species * patterns of plant invasions - mechanism and impact * management and control

- plants of postindustrial habitats (vascular plants)

 

* heavily degradated habitats (e.g. polluted with heavy metals) * degradated habitat plants (e.g. calamine plants, hyperaccumulators)

- urban ecology and urban nature conservation
- arbuscular mycorrhiza in polluted areas

Laboratory of botanical documentation
& herbarium

Teaching courses

- Plant diversity & systematics
- Plant geography
- Nature conservation
- Synanthropisation of plant cover
- Sustainable development

Department of Geobotany and Nature Protection

- Forest communities

 

* structure and dynamics of mountain forest communities * the forest communities with participation of Abies alba Mill. * upper-mountain spruce forests and their dynamics

- Non-forest vegetation of natural and anthropogenic habitats

 

* water communities * rush communities * peat-bogs * psammophiolous grasslands * xerothermic grasslands * meadows * segetal plant communities * flora and vegetation of urban and industrial areas (sand-pits, iron and coal-mine spoils, lead-zinc sedimentation and flotation tanks) * the pioneer plant communities - the rate of species migration, type and rate of changes in their floristic composition * the plant communities built by alien species (kenophytes)

2. Plant communities succession

 

* primary succession on open habitats created by natural (gravel-yards) and anthropogenic factors (coal-mine sedimentation pools) * spontaneous succession on habitats transformed by a man * ecological processes taking place on areas changed as a result of man activity with particular stress on post-industrial wastelands * the role of chosen ecological groups in creation of pioneer communities and their influence on further development of plant communities

3. Plant ecology

 

* Petasites kablikianus - its distribution, ecotypes, habitat preferences, its participation in secondary succession on flooded places * biomonitoring - morphological parameters of Abies alba species * Carex brizoides - its role in the herb-layer development of different forest communities

4. Nature protection

 

*nature and environment protection in Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, Russia, Lithuania * nature protection issues in landscape management * protected species in forest communities * the anthropogenic sites as secondary habitats for rare and protected species

5. Flora and vegetation of the Eastern Siberia