Areas of Interest

• Sand-gravel Pits
• Dumps, Pitheaps & Wasteponds
• Abandoned Fields
• Peat Bogs
• Quarries
• Restoration of Grasslands
• Grazing of Large Herbivores
• Flowering Strips

What is Restoration Ecology?

Restoration Ecology addresses the question how to repair various human-disturbed sites. It provides a scientific basis for practical ecological restoration and promotes, among others, the use of spontaneous or reasonably managed succession in the greatest possible extent without using traditional methods of technical reclamation.

Restoration Ecology Group

"Promotion of spontaneous or reasonably
controlled succession in order to restore disturbed sites"

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Working Group - About Us

The working group is an informal body at the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice connecting people interested in restoration ecology. It brings together not only scientists and students of the Department of Botany but also people from other departments of the Faculty and the Institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic as well as members of non-governmental organizations.

Researchers:

Karel Prach	Leader of the group. Department of Botany, Faculty of Science USB and Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Research in vegetation succession. personal web page: www.butbn.cas.cz e-mail: prach@prf.jcu.cz
Klára Řehounková	Department of Botany, Faculty of Science USB. Research especially in vegetation succession in disused sand-gravel pits. e-mail: klara.rehounkova@gmail.com
Kamila Vítovcová	Department of Botany, Faculty of Science USB (PhD student). Research in vegetation ecology. Administration and analysis of the database of phytosociological reléves from various disturbed sites. e-mail: Lencova.Kamila@seznam.cz
Lenka Šebelíková	Department of Botany, Faculty of Science USB. Comparison of near-natural restoration and forestry reclamation in sand pits. e-mail: lenuskasch@gmail.com
Anna Müllerová	Department of Botany, Faculty of Science USB (PhD student). Water and wetland succession in post-mining sites, especially in sand pits. e-mail: polarni.badatel@seznam.cz
Petra Pospíšilová	Department of Botany, Faculty of Science USB and Českomoravský štěrk a.s. Research especially in vegetation succession in extracted peatlands but also in quarries and sand pits. e-mail: konvalin@centrum.cz
Ondřej Mudrák	Institute of Botany, Academy of Sceinces of the Czech Republic. Research in multitrophic interactions in vegetation succession on post mining sites (especially in Sokolovsko region), functional diversity and ecology of grassland communities. Collaboration on the database data processing. e-mail: ondrej.mudrak@centrum.cz
Petra Janečková	Department of Botany, Faculty of Science USB. Research in vegetation ecology and analysis of the database of phytosociological reléves from various disturbed sites. e-mail: janeckova.petra@centrum.cz
Miguel Ballesteros	Department of Botany, Faculty of Science USB. Research in vegetation ecology. Administration and analysis of the European database of phytosociological reléves from various disturbed sites (EDaSS). e-mail: miguelballesterosjimenez@gmail.com

External collaborators:

Alena Lepší (Department of Botany, Faculty of Science USB; succession on abandoned fields, surrounding vegetation of pond isletes in Třeboň region; cralenka@yahoo.co.uk), Marek Bastl (Department of Botany, Faculty of Science USB; succession and vegetation renewal in peat bogs; marek.bastl@prf.jcu.cz), Ivana Jongepierová (ČSOP Bílé Karpaty, PLA Bílé Karpaty - botanist, jongepierova@nature.cz), Jiří Řehounek (Calla, RehounekJ@seznam.cz), Keith R. Edwards (Department of Biology of Ecosystems, Faculty of Science USB, edwards@prf.jcu.cz), Jan Frouz (Institute of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Institute of Soil Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, frouz@natur.cuni.cz), Lubomír Tichý (Masaryk University, Brno, tichy@sci.muni.cz), Magda Jonášová (Institute of Systemic Biology and Ecology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, jonasova@usbe.cas.cz), Jan Novák (Laboratory of Archeobotany and Paleoecology, Faculty of Science USB, prouza@prf.jcu.cz), Markéta Hendrychová (Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, hendrychovam@fzp.czu.cz), Chiara Toffolo (vegetation ecology, analysis of the database of phytosociological reléves from various disturbed sites, chiara.toffolo94@gmail.com), Morgan Canevet vegetation ecology, regional seed mixtures, morgan.canevet@etu.toulouse-inp.fr)

Students:

Bachelor students: Anna Grambalová, Agáta Hasmanová, Jana Kinclová, Laura Hessová

Master students: Tobiloba Ajayi

Ph.D.students: ---