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Research activities of the Institute of Botany are oriented at basic research in systematic, experimental and environmental botany. The main capacity is concentrated on study of diversity and evolutionary relations of fungi, non-vascular and vascular plants and plant communities, as well as on experimental study of structure and functions of plant organisms at various organisation levels and their responses to abiotic and biotic factors of the environment. Institute holds one of the three largest herbaria in the Slovak Republic (acronym SAV) and manages database of the distribution of non-vascular and vascular plants of Slovakia (Dataflos) as well as database of phytosociological relevés for the territory of the Slovak Republic. Institute currently hosts the Secretariat of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and International Organization of Plant Biosystematists (IAPT interest group).

Institute has a leading role in national projects such as the multivolume Flora of Slovakia (Flóra Slovenska), the Checklist of Non-Vascular and Vascular Plants of Slovakia, Vegetation of Slovakia and the Red Lists of Non-Vascular and Vascular Plants of Slovakia. We took part also in a number of EU projects related to the biodiversity informatics and phylogeography as Euro+Med PlantBase, BioCASE, ENBI, IntraBioDiv, EDIT, PESI, and ENSCONET. 

WP 1 Data sources: requirements, gap analysis and data mobilization

WP 2 Data integration and interoperability

	Karol Marhold  Main representative Secretary-General of the International Association of Plant Taxonomy, President of the International Organization of Plant Biosystematists
	Matúš Kempa  IT person PhD student biodiversity informatics