Our research topics

Our general focus is on issues of organismic botany, including a wide range of topics ranging from basic science to applied aspects and conservation. Our geographical focus regions are Central Europe as well as Central Asia and Middle Asia.

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Our research topics

The Botany Department comprises 4 working groups: 1.) Phanerogamen I (K. Wesche): Plant Ecology, Conservation, Biogeography, Flora of Central Europe. 2.) Phanerogamen II (C. Ritz): Evolution and Systematics of Vascular Plants 3.) Lichens and Bryophytes (V. Otte): Taxonomy, Ecology and Biogeography of Lichens and Mosses 4.) Mycology (U. Damm): Taxonomy and Systematics with a focus on phytoparasitic fungi

Infrastructure and Co-operations

Collections are our key research infrastructures; the Görlitz collections on Vascular Plant, Lichens, Mosses and Fungi are part of the larger Herbarium Senckenbergianum. The Botany Team has close cooperations with a number of domestic and international partners including among others: • German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig (funding member) • Crop Research Institute – Liberec • School of Biology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar • Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia

Publications of working groups

Complete lists of publications sorted by the four working groups Phanerogamen I, Phanerogamen II, Lichens und Bryophytes, and Mycology are found on the pages of our department:

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Research at the Chair of Biodiversity of Plants

Details are on our Senckenberg website

Our research topics

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Our research topics

Infrastruc­ture and Co-operations

Publica­tions of working groups

Research at the Chair of Biodiversity of Plants

Infrastructure and Co-operations

Publications of working groups