Ecological relationships of plant communities and mycocoenoses in selected forest ecosystems in Slovakia

The project is unique in the combination of mycological and botanical research, in the parallel application of the
latest methods of the both disciplines in the Carpathian region specific by large complexes of natural forests
serving as the control localities opposite to forests affected by man. It offers several original and innovative methodical approaches of the forest ecosystem research, for example: molecular methods of mycologicalresearch enable to identify non-fructification individuals from the soil samples and reveal the real actual diversity of fungi on given locality, multidisciplinary approach of diversity study.