Ladislav Mucina

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Professor Ladislav Mucina with his Vegetation Map of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland.
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Ladislav Mucina is a vegetation scientist and

The University of Western Australia in Perth.[1] He was born on 28 May 1956 in Piešťany, Slovakia
.

Education

Ladislav Mucina received his education in Slovakia and was awarded scientific degrees and teaching qualifications in botany, vegetation science, plant ecology and plant taxonomy at the

Technical University Berlin in Germany.[1]

He completed post-doctoral studies at the

Perth, Western Australia in Australia as well as Pretoria, University of the North, later University of Free State and Stellenbosch
, all in South Africa. In Slovakia, Professor Mucina was associated with the Slovak Academy of Sciences and later, after immigrating to Austria, he served at the University of Vienna.

Research works

His research includes vegetation surveys, theoretical vegetation science, numerical methods and data-banking in plant

grasslands, and syntaxonomic calibration of the EUNIS[2] habitat directive of the European Union
.

He is the co-founder and ex-chairman of the European Vegetation Survey (a working group of the International Association for Vegetation Science), co-founder the National Vegetation Database in South Africa, and Scientific Coordinator of the

Swaziland Project.[1]

Mucina is the author or co-author of 28 books and symposium volumes, and more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. In 2016 he published (with a team of other 32 vegetation scientists) the first continental vegetation system - Vegetation of Europe (published in journal Applied Vegetation Science).

Professor Mucina has served for a long time as vice-president of the International Association for Vegetation Sciences and is a founding member and former Editor of the journal Applied Vegetation Science.[3]

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References

  1. ^
    Wikidata Q105889483
    .
  2. ^ "EUNIS home page". 30 September 2007. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  3. Wikidata Q105890354
    .
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