Field of studyBotany

The field of Botany under the Biology doctoral study programme covers taxonomy, biosystematics, ecology, palaeoecology, and plant diversity on the level of species, populations and communities. It includes all systematic groups of lower and higher plants, fungi and cyanobacteria, and interaction between plants and animals. In the area of taxonomy-biosystematics, the main emphasis is on combining modern biosystematic methods such as genetical analyses and multivariate statistics with traditional taxonomical methods. In the ecologically oriented research, preferred topics are large-scale studies of diversity of vegetation and flora, and vegetation dynamics in relation to the abiotic, biotic, and human factors.