Background
Mucina, Ladislav was born on May 28, 1956 in Piestany, Czechoslovakia. Son of Jaroslav Mucina and Mária (Benková) Mucinová.
Mucina, Ladislav was born on May 28, 1956 in Piestany, Czechoslovakia. Son of Jaroslav Mucina and Mária (Benková) Mucinová.
He completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and later served as visiting fellow and professor in Trieste, Camerino, Perugia, and Rome, all in Italy, Uppsala in Sweden, Brno in the Czechoslovakian Republic, Perth in Australia and Pretoria and Stellenbosch, both in South Africa.
Ladislav Mucina received his education in Slovakia and was awarded scientific degrees and teaching qualifications in botany, vegetation science, plant ecology and plant taxonomy at the Comenius University and Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava in Slovakia, the University of Vienna in Austria and the Technical University Berlin in Germany. In Slovakia, Professor Mucina was associated with the Slovak Academy of Sciences and later, after immigrating to Austria, he served at the University of Vienna. He has also served at the Kuwait University in Kuwait, and the University of North and the University of the Free State, both in South Africa.
Ladislav Mucina"s research includes vegetation surveys, theoretical vegetation science, numerical methods and data-banking in plant ecology, biogeography, population ecology, evolutionary biology and plant taxonomy.
His recent research focuses include community assembly rules and use of plant functional types in community ecology, with a particular focus on fynbos and semi-desert regions. Ladislav Mucina has participated in numerous important scientific projects including the vegetation survey of Austria, studies in vegetation patterning and population ecology of Central European dry grasslands, and syntaxonomic calibration of the EUNIS habitat directive of the European Union.
Ladislav Mucina is the author or co-author of 19 books and symposium volumes, and 136 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. Since 1994, Ladislav Mucina has served as Vice-president of the International Association for Vegetation Sciences and is a founding member and former Editor of the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science.
Member International Association for Vegetation Science (officer 1990, advisory board 1990), Ecolo. Society American, British Ecological Society.
Married Dagmar Mitosinka, February 28, 1976. Children: Stanislav, Branislav, Silvia.