Happily forward with mostly dry feet! Wish us good luck in next three years when we will be studying how fast, from where and by what are disturbed peatbogs in Šumava Mountains colonized. We are interested in many things – from microscopic fungi and plants to butterflies. We are already fully equipped and full of enthusiasm as shown in the pictures.
The weather is in our favour therefore our working group is successfully continuing with our field work and field trips. With the beginning of April, we started field work on two harvested peatbgos and two preserved peatbogs. We managed to establish almost all permanent plots and prepare all the boreholes for measuring water level.
Sunny spring days are tempting us to set out for nature and so our working group is starting with field trips. Our first field trip was once again to the former military area near Milovice where we are studying the effect of pasture of large herbivores on the restoration of dry grasslands. Our experiment was established on abandoned field last summer and it was necessary to check on our permanent plots which will be sampled during June.
One of the results of our collaboration with German colleagues from Hochschule Anhalt in Bernburg is a document with 
One of the most important parts of student life is certainly a PhD study stay abroad. Students from the Ecological restoration working group have an opportunity to choose between several prestigious workplaces dealing with restoration. Anička Müllerová has chosen Flemish (Belgian) Antwerp.
Our colleague and collaborator Luboš Tichý and his team won the international contest 
For several years, students of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, have the opportunity to take the Land Reclamation course (and Rekultivace for Czech students) which is guaranteed by our colleague Markéta Hendrychová. And for several years, members of our group are invited to tell the students something about the ecological restoration of mining sites. This year, Lenka Šebelíková spoke about the ecological restoration, management and research of sand pits. Two weeks later, Karel Prach gave a lecture about ecological restoration and restoration ecology in a broader context. We hope that our lectures were useful and inspiring and we are looking forward to the next year.
Last week, our dear colleague, Anita Kirmer from Hochschule Anhalt gave a talk on the topic of the establishment of species-rich flowering strips. Anita talked not only about the practila aspects of the establishment of these flowering strips and proper selection of seed mixtures, but also about the implementation of proposed seed mixtures into EU agri-environmental schemes.
