Research at the Biodiversity Unit
Research at Biodiversity Unit focuses broadly on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and –services.
The research infrastructure including the botanical garden and two field stations, long-term experiments and environmental monitoring datasets and scientific collections provides an excellent support for multidisciplinary research on topical questions such as climate change, biodiversity crisis, and the sustainable use and protection of natural resources in both natural and man-made environments.
In addition to its own research, the Biodiversity Unit promotes multidisciplinary research at the university and serves as a showcase for public outreach.
Our research
New publications
Biodiversity seen through the perspective of insects: 10 simple rules on methodological choices and experimental design for genomic studies (2019)
PeerJ
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
Molecular phylogeny of Ateleutinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): systematics and biogeography of a widespread parasitoid wasp lineage (2019)
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
Heritable Epichloe symbiosis shapes fungal but not bacterial communities of plant leaves (2019)
Scientific Reports
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
A new Gongylidioides Oi, 1960 from Taiwan (Aranei: Linyphiidae) (2019)
Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
Postglacial colonization history reflects in the genetic structure of natural populations of Festuca rubra in Europe (2019)
Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
Biodiversity assessments in the 21st century: the potential of insect traps to complement environmental samples for estimating eukaryotic and prokaryotic diversity using high-throughput DNA metabarcoding (2019)
Genome
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
Revision of some central European species of Inocybe (Fr.: Fr.) Fr. subgenus Inocybe, with the description of five new species (2019)
Mycological Progress
(A1 Journal article – refereed)
The Klingon batbugs: Morphological adaptations in the primitive bat bugs, Bucimex chilensis and Primicimex cavernis, including updated phylogeny of Cimicidae (2019)
(A1 Journal article – refereed)The spider genera Azerithonica and Tegenaria (Aranei: Agelenidae: Tegenariini) in Iran (2019)
Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Journal article – refereed)