Ladislav Mucina

Ladislav Mucina is a vegetation scientist and Professor and Iluka Chair of Vegetation Science and Biogeography at the School of Biological Science of The University of Western Australia in Perth. He was born on 28 May 1956 in Piešťany, Slovakia.

Education 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 Technische Universität Berlin in Germany. habitat directive of the European Union.

He is the co-founder and ex-chairman of the European Vegetation Survey (a working group of the International Association for Vegetation Science), co-founder the National Vegetation Database in South Africa, and Scientific Coordinator of the South African National Biodiversity Institute's Vegetation Map of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland Project.

Media links Botany professor steers the world's vegetation science learned society Matie News. South Africa. Slovak botanist helps to survey South Africa's plant riches Matie News. South Africa.