The current period is considered a “biodiversity crisis” and the knowledge of distribution and evolution of biodiversity is the basis for its successful conservation. The research performed in the Division of Biodiversity focuses mainly on evolutionary processes affecting diversity of vertebrates (as holobionts, i.e. host plus its symbionts) at species and intraspecific (genetic) level, including factors responsible for its increase (e.g. speciation) and decrease (conservation genetics, extinctions of populations). Individual projects deal mainly with the following issues:
- speciation, hybridization;
- evolutionary history, phylogeography – origin of current genetic diversity and its spatial distribution;
- factors affecting holobiont diversity, e.g. host-parasite co-evolution and microbiome structure;
- biogeography, evolution of biodiversity hot-spots (especially in Africa);
- genetic threats of contemporary populations, conservation genetics;
- biological collections, biobanking.
Running projects
Grant agency of the Czech Republic
Co-investigator: 7 Ondřej Mikula 21
Investigator: 18 Josef Bryja 21
Investigator: 13 Jaroslav Piálek 22
Co-investigator: 7 Dagmar Čížková 21
Investigator: Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq 21
Investigator: Kreisinger Jakub
Investigator: 18 Josef Bryja 21
Investigator: 6 Václav Gvoždík 21
Investigator: 5 Tomáš Albrecht 21
International projects
Co-investigator: 18 Josef Bryja 21
Co-investigator:
Finished projects
Grant agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Co-investigator: 3 Miroslav Čapek 22
Investigator: 19 Natália Martínková 21
Co-investigator: 9 Petr Koubek 22
Investigator: 3 Miroslav Čapek 22
Grant agency of the Czech Republic
Investigator: Stuart J.E. Baird 21
Co-investigator: 13 Jaroslav Piálek 22
Co-investigator: 3 Karel Halačka 22
Investigator:
Investigator: 13 Jaroslav Piálek 22
Investigator: 6 Václav Gvoždík 21
Investigator: 18 Josef Bryja 21
Investigator: Stuart J.E. Baird 21
Co-investigator: 6 Petr Procházka 21
Investigator: 18 Josef Bryja 21
Investigator: 9 Petr Koubek 22
Investigator: 7 Peter Vallo 21
Investigator: 7 Jan Mendel 21
Investigator: Mgr. Eva Jánová, Ph.D.
Investigator: prof. Ing. Jaroslav Červený, CSc.
Co-investigator: 18 Josef Bryja 21
Investigator: 10 Marcel Honza 24
Individual projects
Investigator: 3 Martin Šálek 21
Investigator: 9 Petr Koubek 22
Investigator: 9 Petr Koubek 22
International projects
Investigator: 3 Martin Šálek 21
Investigator: 7 Petra Hájková 21
Investigator: 19 Natália Martínková 21
Ministry of Agriculture
Investigator: 3 Karel Halačka 22
Investigator: 3 Karel Halačka 22
Investigator: Ing. Miroslav Prokeš, CSc.
Investigator: Ing. Miroslav Prokeš, CSc.
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
Investigator: 18 Josef Bryja 21
Investigator: 18 Josef Bryja 21
Investigator: 7 Anna Bryjová
Co-investigator:
Ministry of Environment
Investigator: 18 Josef Bryja 21
Investigator: 9 Petr Koubek 22
Investigator: 3 Martin Šálek 21
Investigator: doc. ing. Stanislav Lusk, CSc.
Investigator: 3 Karel Halačka 22
Investigator: 7 Jan Mendel 21