International Scientific Cooperation

For many years the Institute of Botany has been cooperating with a large number of foreign research centers. The cooperation with those centers includes common research projects carried out in the frame of agreements signed either between governments, Academies, or directly cooperating institutes.

Nowadays the scientists of the Institute have participated in the following international programs:

• Neogene and Pleistocene floras of Poland and Belarus
• Investigation of adventive flora, especially of quarantine weeds. Assignation of a list of species which may become dangerous weeds
• Correlation of Teritary Floras from Bulgaria and Poland
• The Genus Trapa in Bulgaria - Taxonomic and Chorogical Studies
• Comparison of Teritary floras (seeds, fruits, leaves and sporomorphs) of China and Poland in the evolutionary and biodiversity aspects
• Neogene floras of west Czech Rep. and Poland
• Fossil flora of Poland and Georgia
• Paleohistological and paleobiochemical studies of Glyptostrobus europaeus Unger from Orawa Basin
• The contemporary and fossil flora of Poland and Russia
• Comparative investigation of parasitic and saprophytic microfungi occurring on dominant arctic plants arctic area of Russia
• Taxonomy and chorology of critical plant groups of the Carpathian plant cover protection
• Effect on natural and anthrophogenic factors on forest ecosystems in Southern Poland
• Jurassic and Neogene floras of Poland and Ukraine and their significance for stratigrafical correlation and reconstruction of paleoclimate
• Evaluation of ozone air pollution and its phytotoxic potential in the Carpathian forests - cooperative study between Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine and United States
• Effects of atmospheric deposition and climate changes on forest ecosystems in Eastern Europe and the United States
• Comparison of recent and fossil floras of Poland and Hungary
• Comparative studies in taxonomy, variability, karyology, chorology of critical taxa of vascular plants, especially Poaceae (grasses) - Italy

An equally important role is played by the cooperation with individual researchers from many research centers in the world. Especially important is cooperation with the following ones:

• Naturhistorishes Museum in Vienna
• Geological Institute in Nankin
• Geological Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague
• Botany Dept. Cairo Univ. in Giza
• National Research Centre in Cairo
• European Pollen Data Base of University in Arles
• Hugo de Vries Lab. Amsterdam University
• Botanical Institute Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in Vilinius
• Hohenheim University in Stuttgart
• Publication Fungiflora in Oslo
• Western Cape University in Bellville
• Institute of Biological and Soil Sciences Russian Academy of Sciences in Wladiwostok
• Swedish Environmental Protection Agency in Stockholm
• Institute of Ecology, Lund University
• Dept of Ecology and Environmental Research, University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala
• Geological Institute in Uppsala
• Southern Methodist Univ. in Dallas
• Pacific Southwest Research Station of Princeton University
• Archaeological Institute of University of London

Apart from assignments realized within mutual agreements and research projects, the Institute of Botany collects and samples contemporary and paleological material from different parts of the world, including Africa, North and South Americas, the Antarctica, and Europe. Organized trips are often connected with projects which demand detailed herbarium material sampling or bibliographic studies of the material in the possession of research centers outside Poland

Very frequenly the Institute of Botany is asked to provide expertise for foreign research centers, e.g.: Royal Botanic Garden in Edynburg (United Kingdom), Museo de Ciencias Naturales in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Antarctic Division, Kingston (Australia), Institute of Geological Sciences in Minsk (Belarus) Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, Moravian Museum in Brno (Czech Rep.), Minia University (Egipt), Helsinian Uniwersity (Finland), Paleobiological Institute in Tbilisi (Georgia), University in Bonn, Freie University in Berlin (Germany), Plant and Animal Ecology Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences Ural Division in Ekaterynburg, Carpathian National Park in Jaremtscha (Ukraine), Princeton University (USA).

The staff of the Institute is very actively cooperating with Editorial Councils of three foreign publishers and provide critical reviews for such periodicals as: Algological Studies, Ambio, Annales Botanici Fennici, Cryptogamie, Briologie-Lichenologie, Environmental Pollution, Journal of Bryology, Nova Hedwigia, Polar Biology, Quarternary Research, Willendowia, Water, Air and Soil Pollution.

Researchers from the Institute are members of 23 international scientific associations, among them are: Advisory Board to the Europe's Palynological Database, The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT), Arctic Working Group, Association pour l’Etude Taxonomique de la Flore d’Afrique Tropicale, Association of Plant Taxonomists, Board of Governors of the American Biographical Institute Research Assotiation, Bryologich-lichenologichen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mitteleuropas, European Ecological Federation, European Plant Specialist Group, International Association of Bryologists, International Association for Lichenology, International Organization of Plant Biosystematists, International Phycological Society, International Ecological Society (INTECOL), Schweizerischen Vereinigung fü r Bryologie und Lichenologie, Societas Internationalis Limnologorum, Species Survival Commission IUCN, Steering Commitee European Drilling Project (ELDP),

Since 1997 the Institute of Botany has organized 4 international conferences and workshops in which participated 67 researchers from abroad. In June, 1998 the Institute is going to host the Fifth European Palaeobotanical-Palynological Conference.