Lichenology

You are found at the homepage of the work group on lichenlogy at University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Botany

We are still a small team consisting of following workers:

Pavel Hrouzek -

Jaroslav Šoun -

Jan Vondrák -

Pavel Říha -

Olexii Redchenko -

Lada Syrovátková -

Jiří Kubásek -

Olga Merkulova Vondráková -

František Bouda -

Ivan Frolov -

What we are focused on

Worldwide taxonomy of critical groups within the genus Caloplaca (J. Šoun, J. Vondrák)

Taxonomy of vagrant Xanthoparmelia (O. Vondráková)

Convergent evolution of simplified phenotypes in Teloschistaceae (J. Vondrák)

Cryptic species in Teloschistaceae (J. Vondrák, J. Šoun)

Population studies in Evernia divaricata and E. mesomorpha (L. Syrovátková)

Investigations on lichen biodiversity; Central Europe, Balkan, the Black Sea region (J. Vondrák, J. Šoun), Arctic (O. Redchenko) and the Russian steppe zone (O. Vondráková)

Lichen ecophysiology (J. Kubásek)

Identification of lichen substances; HPLC (P. Hrouzek)

Molecular lab works (O. Redchenko)

Phylogenetic analyses (P. Říha)

Imaging of lichens (O. Vondráková)