Plant Ecology, Biogeography and Diversity Conservation

Group leader: Anamaria Roman

• Plant species and habitat conservation and monitoring assessment. Management of the protected areas.

• Landscape ecology (including agroecology) 

• Vegetation remote sensing and spectranomics

• Functional ecology approaches in the montane-alpine environments of the Carpathian Mountains

• Mapping plant species, vegetation and habitat distribution with data integration in existing or new databases

• Species distribution analysis through quantitative biogeography inferences and ecological niche monitoring

• Research on the plant endemism phenomenon in the Carpathian Region

• Ecosystem services assessment (including carbon sequestration and storage) in the context of climate change