Biomes of the Southern Hemisphere

Prof. Ladislav Mucina: My scientific interests span descriptive vegetation science (especially vegetation surveys, classification and mapping), biosystematics, molecular phylogeny, population ecology, evolutionary biology, biogeography, biodiversity science, environmental management, plant community restoration, and conservation biology. My major scientific contributions include the three-volume opus on vegetation survey of Austria, book describing vegetation and vegetation map of mega-diverse South Africa, and a syntaxonomic system for Europe. International Association for Vegetation Science is my scientific home and I have served the Association as Associate and Chief Editor of Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science, Vice-President, Secretary-General, and as an evergreen member of the Advisory Council. In 2017 I was elected Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and in 2018 I was awarded the Honorary Membership ofthe IAVS. My teaching engagements so far include universities on four continents - Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. My publication list scores more than 430 papers and 28 books. At present I serve as the Iluka Chair at the Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, engaging in applied post-mining restoration research, evolutionary biology, and vegetation surveying methodology.

Prof. Ladislav Mucina: 我的科學興趣涵蓋了描述性植被科學（尤其是植被調查、分類和繪製地圖）、生物系統學、分子親緣關係、族群生態學、演化生物學、生物地理學、生物多樣性科學、環境管理、植物群落復育和保育生物學。我主要的科學貢獻包括奧地利植被調查的三卷書、描述南非超多樣性植被和植被地圖的書籍，以及歐洲的一個語法分類系統。國際植被科學協會是我的科學家之家，我曾擔任該協會的副編輯和主編，以及副會長、秘書長和諮詢委員會的常任成員。2017年，我當選為匈牙利科學院的榮譽會員，2018年獲得國際植被科學協會的榮譽會員。到目前為止，我在歐洲、亞洲、非洲和澳洲的大學擔任教學工作。我的出版物清單包括超過430篇論文和28本書。目前，我擔任澳洲默多克大學哈利·巴特勒研究所的伊魯卡講座教授，從事應用後礦業復育研究、演化生物學和植被調查方法論的研究。