Our research encompasses a broad range of biogeographical subjects ranging from plant distributions and their geographical relationships with the environment to processes determining generation and spatial assembly of plant diversity. This includes aspects of evolution, ecology, and systematics as well as human-environment relations. Sound knowledge of basic principles of plant diversity on multiple levels, conceptual and methodological rigor in its study as well as a deep interest in plants motivate our teaching from the undergraduate to the postgraduate level. 

News & Recent Publications

Cryptic invasion suggested by a cytogeographic analysis of the halophytic Puccinellia distans complex (Poaceae) in Central Europe. Frontiers in Plant Science 14: 1249292

Contamination of imported kernels by unapproved genome-edited varieties poses a major challenge for monitoring and traceability during transport and handling on a global scale: inferences from a study on feral oilseed rape in Austria. Frontiers in Genome Editing 5: 1176290

Underestimated diversity in high elevations of a global biodiversity hotspot: Two new endemic species of Aethionema (Brassicaceae) from the alpine zone of Iran. Frontiers in Plant Science 14: 1182073

Hotspots of (sub)alpine plants in the Irano-Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot are insufficiently protected. Diversity and Distributions 29: 244–253

Rote Liste der Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Österreichs. Stapfia 114: 1–357

Checkliste und Rote Liste der Farn- und Blütenpflanzen des Burgenlandes. ⇗

Biodiversity coverage in Austrian National Parks. Acta ZooBot Austria 158: 13–47

First records of Calamagrostis purpurea (Poaceae) in the Carpathians, a relict species new to the flora of Slovakia, Ukraine, and Romania. Biologia 77: 2459–2468

Deep phylogeographic splits but no taxonomic structure in the disjointly distributed Draba pacheri (Brassicaceae), a subendemic of the Eastern Alps. Folia Geobotanica 56: 179–192