Finalized projects

•Genetic and Phytochemical Diversity of Origanum vulgare ssp. vulgare from Austria

•Goat-Grazing and biocultural diversity - a transdisciplinary system approach

•Chromosome Numbers, Genome Size and Ploidy Level in some species of the genus Leontopodium (Asteraceae)

•Implications of taxonomy and polyploidisation on the phytochemistry of the autopolyploid complex Valeriana officinalis L. (Valerianaceae) – an interdisciplinary approach

•Holocene wildfire and vegetation history of the Karwendel region

•Detecting hybrid speciation with low copy nuclear genes and its usefulness in cultivated and invasive plants using taxa of Leontodon /Scorzoneroides (Asteraceae) as model organisms

•Towards a world-wide monograph of aeroquatic fungi: taxonomy, phylogenetic relationships, biodiversity and a species inventory for Austria

•Morphological differentiation of the sympatric di-, tetra- and hexaploid cytotypes of Senecio carniolicus s. l. (syn. Jacobaea c.; Asteraceae)

•Filling gaps in the Molecular Phylogeny and world-wide Phylogeography of Rubiaceae-Rubieae

•Apomixis in subnivale plants of the Alps

• Investigations to the dynamics of the biomass and carbon pools in coppice with reserves stands, coppice with standards stands and high forest

•Vienna environmental studies : volumes: 1 (published) & 2 (work in progress)

•A pilote study on hybrid speciation in alpine willows (Salix)

•Algal productivity in riverine wetlands - living along the edge and affecting key ecosystem functions

•Phylogenie und Chromosomale Evolution der Gattung Melampodium (Asteraceae) abgeleitet von "low copy" nuklearen Genen

•Chemodiversitätsforschung zur Evolution der Gattung Artemisia (Asteraceae: Anthemideae) - Folgeantrag für 2007/08 - Digitale Spektrenbibliothek von Exkretflavonoiden

•Sensory ecology of bumblebees: Adaptation of the visual system to different spectral light qualities in terrestrial habitats

• Genetic patterns in restoration populations of Gypsophila fastigiata subsp. arenaria compared with their source using AFLP

• Advantages of apomixis versus selfing: studies on the Ranunculus cassubicus complex using experimental crosses and flow cytometric seed screen

•Evolution und secundary structure of the nrDNS-region ITS of Tillandsia s. l. (Bromeliaceae): Relationships between sequence-alignments, phylogeny and ecological-adaptive variability

• Chromosome numbers and genome size in genus Polystachya Hooker (Orchidaceae)

• Phylogeography and reticulate homoploid evolution in Androsace sect. Aretia

• DNA-anayltical investigations on the genus Ranunculus

• Phylogeny of the European endemic Phyteuma (Campanulaceae)

• Carbon and element cycling in a tropical lowland forest, Costa Rica: Interannual variability and climate coupling

• Untersuchungen und Experimente zur bestäubungsbiologischen Bedeutung der Blüten-Zeichnugsvarianz bei Ophrys heldreichii

• Reduced plankton diversity in extremely acidic mining lakes

• Chemodiversity and Evolution of Artemisia (Asteraceae: Anthemideae)

• Allometry in a growing cichlid fish hybrid population