Ganoderma cupreolaccatum is the rarest Ganoderma species in the Czech Republic, having a scattered distribution in protected areas and at anthropogenic localities with old trees. The ecology and geographical distribution of G. cupreolaccatum in the Czech Republic was elaborated based on data...

Fuscoporia caymanensis sp. nov. is described from tropical America. It is characterized by perennial, extensive, resupinate to indistinctly effused-reflexed basidiomata; a very thin to almost absent subiculum; multi-layered tubes with a black line between each layer; a dimitic hyphal system with&...

In this work we proposed a novel methodological approach to detect and differentiate between cooked and uncooked animal meat protein in archaeological samples. We tested two groups of materials: ceramic dated to the early medieval period (9th–10th centuries CE) and soil samples collecte...

Small fragments of phosphatic cuticle have been observed in dark limestone of the early Eifelian age (Choteč Formation) in the interval of the Basal Choteč Event. The cuticle is two-layered, primarily folded, with a chamber between outer and inner walls. Fragments likely represent ...

The article summarises data on the distribution and ecology of Panellus ringens in the Czech Republic. So far, only four localities are known, one in the Krkonoše Mts., two in Šumava Mts. and one in Tachovská brázda basin. All collections come from rather thin branches of...

Problematic phosphatic sclerites Eurytholia are reported for the first time from the Middle Devonian. Unequivocal sclerites were observed in limestones of Emsian to late Eifelian age in six localities of the Barrandian area of the Central Bohemia of the Czech Republic. Formerly observed...

This paper presents results of our research on critical spots in geography education. Critical spots and their causes were identified using semi-structured in- terviews and focus groups with 6th grade teachers. Educational modules for five most critical identified spots (Maps, Geographic coo...

The contribution of field trip is outlined in the realized research, which, through cognitive mapping, makes it possible to record a quantitative and qualitative change/shift in the content of selected scientific terms. Pupils with a deeper interestin biology who completed a one-day...

Four types of dendritic microborings preserved as natural casts were observed on the surfaces of brachiopod shells from the Silurian in Central Bohemia: Rhopalondendrina jakubinka isp. nov., ? Clionolithes isp., and an indeterminate dendrinid are of Llandovery (Aeronian) age, Clionolithes amoebae...

Lingulate brachiopods of the Lochkovian and Pragian age from the Compte-I section in the Spanish Central Pyrenees are described to elucidate the evolutionary history of this brachiopod group. Precise bio- and chronostratigraphic position of the brachiopod association is supported by the cono...

Alpine plant phenological traits are studied and several hypotheses about their latitudinal variation are tested within a comparative research project, which is being conducted on groups od plant species for which relationschips are inferred from available phylogenies. The study sites for th...

Lingulate brachiopods are described from a lithic sandstone referred to the upper part of the Třenice Formation. Loose blocks were sampled from a dump of abandoned Gabriela Mine in Krušná Hora Hill near Beroun, Central Bohemia. Apart of the Acrotreta aff. grandis Klouček, 1919,...

The dark pelbiodetrital limestone beds of the ‘upper dark interval’ in the Koněprusy area, Central Bohemia, the Czech Republic, the assumed manifestation of the Kačák Event in this area, yielded a moderately diverse faunule of rhynchonelliform brachiopods and trilobites. In total, 15 sp...

The trilobite assemblage of Calceola-bearing beds in the upper part of Acanthopyge Limestone (Choteč Formation, Eifelian) in the Koněprusy area, the Czech Republic, is described. Together with occurrence of Calceola, it indicates absence of significant palaeogeographic barriers restricting the distrib...

Chemical analysis of archaeological objects is an important part of current investigations. In the presented study, a soil from an archaeological vessel from rescue excavation close to the village Držovice (Central Moravia Region, Czech Republic; findings dated to Eneolithic period) was anal...

We examined the value of targeted molecular screening for the identification of uterine anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)- rearranged mesenchymal tumors, including ALK immunohistochemistry followed by molecular genetic testing, in all uterine leiomyosarcomas and STUMPs (smooth muscle tumors of uncertain...

Promotion of successful examples of biomanipulation and long-term monitoring is important for encouragement of similar activities, which are still relatively scarce. A project to improve water quality in the Velky Bolevecky pond (Plzeň, Czech Republic) began in 2006. The main activities in&#...

In the present paper, we select a neotype for Tremella cerasi and prove that it is conspecific with Ditangium insigne (the genus type of Ditangium).We argue that Ditangium should be restored as a correct genus for T. cerasi, while the currently used generic name Craterocolla&#...

The recently described polypore Cartilosoma rene-hentic is recorded, described and illustrated from several localities in the Czech Republic for the first time. Its identity was confirmed both based on morphology and by sequencing ITS regions. The species variability and ecology is discussed...