Monitoring und wissenschaftliche Auswertung von Biodiversität in den Schlossgärten Schwetzingen, Rastatt-Favorite und Weikersheim
Drei Schlossgärten werden hier unter die Lupe genommen. Das Inventar an Gefäßpflanzen-, Pilz- und Insektenarten soll möglichst vollständig erfasst werden, um prioritäre Arten und als Indikatoren geeignete Organismen zu...[more]
Botany in art and literature
Plants play various roles in art and literature. They can be mere ornament and background, they can be key actors, they can be metaphoric impressions. To know the plant species that are depicted often is a key to get...[more]
Botanical identification and reference literature
Botanists need their everyday equipment: identification keys, regional maps, reference lists of biotope and habitat types, etc. This material has to be constantly adapted based on recent research findings as well as on updated...[more]
Flora und vegetation of abandoned clay pits and of urban areas
Succession research allows us to witness how species communities emerge and are replaced again. Initial »settlers« arrive where – by natural processes or human impact – open soil, wounded bark, blank rock surface (… or also...[more]
Indicator values and functional traits
In (Central) Europe, research on both topics is carried out since quite a long time, there are comprehensive summaries and data bases. However, many unresolved issues still remain, e.g., in the application of existing concepts...[more]
Fallowland project (Offenhaltungsversuche) of Baden-Württemberg
The Fallowland project of Baden-Württemberg is addressing the question how species-rich agricultural land can be kept open and species-rich using minimum (financial, personal, and technical) effort, which is done by comparing...[more]
Mounting, indexing and digitization of fungal collections
The fungus collections of the Karlsruhe Natural History Museum have increased almost tenfold since 2003 and today have more than 108,000 specimens (as of December 2021). Most of the collections are donations from private...[more]
Mycological investigations in the former protected forest Wilder See (Northern Black Forest)
From 2013 to 2019, the fungal diversity was recorded in the almost in the Wilder See area, an area covering almost 150 h in new Black Forest National Park. The project is a citizen science project led by the Karlsruhe...[more]
The urban fungus flora in the Karlsruhe area and how it changes
The fungus flora of Karlsruhe has been investigated since the 1920s, documented by a number of publications, specimens in herbaria and above all by diary entries. The Karlsruhe teacher Paul Stricker, who had been documenting the...[more]
Taxonomy of rust fungi and DNA-Barcoding
The taxonomy and ecology of rust fungi (Pucciniales) is one of the main research areas of the department. Rust fungi are microfungi and obligate plant parasites characterized by e. g. a large number of different spore types, high...[more]
