Institute of General Ecology and Environmental Protection

The Institute of General Ecology and Environmental Protection includes the Chair of Biodiversity and Nature Conservation. The Chair of General Ecology and Environmental Protection was closed in 2014.

The institute is divided into the education of students for the courses/studies of Forestry, Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management, Tropical Forestry and Management, Landscape Architecture and Geography.

The most important teaching areas are:

• Biodiversity
• Nature conservation
• Vegetation and plant communities / habitat types

Research focus:

• Plant diversity
• Functional biodiversity
• Nature conservation strategies