Rennweg 14
A-1030 VIENNA
Austria
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Others
- Youth and education
Research covers (a) all aspects of activities in Botanic Gardens and (b) of the field of plant biogeography ranging from the intra- specific to the community level; focusing on floristic and the mapping of European vascular plant distributions and study many aspects of plant chorology including molecular phylogeography (with emphasis on Arctic-Alpine and Mediterranean plant groups), as well as taxonomic studies with particular biogeographic concern. Finally, we apply this research to the needs of conservation.
Ex situ conservation (e.g., dry area plants of Austria)
Creating public awareness about nature conservation
Distribution atlases and checklists of plants (Austria, Southern Tyrol, Central Europe)
Moelcular phylogeny of plant taxa with island distribution (e.g. Bulbophyllum, Orchidaceae, and Cyrtandra, Gesneriaceae)
Molecular biogeography of arctic and alpine plants (e.g., Androsace sect. Aretia) with special emphasis on phenomena and patterns connected to the Pleistocene glaciations
Dynamics of riverine vegetation
Red Data lists for plants
Evolution of non-photosynthetic parasitic plants