IVAN SUCHARA

 
*11. 4. 1951, Jičín

Silva Tarouca Reserach Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening
Kvetnove namesti 391
CZ 252 43 Pruhonice
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420-2 96 52 82 84
FAX: +420-2 67 75 00 23
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Department of Botany
Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
Benatska 2
CZ 128 00 Prague 2
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420-2 21 95 16 62
(http://botany.natur.cuni.cz/)

Education

1966–1969
Grammar school, Jičín
1969–1974
Charles University in Prague,Faculty of Sciences, Department of Botany,
(Diploma thesis: „Shrub vegetation of the České středohoří Mts.“), graduated biologist
1974–1978
Research Institute of Ornamental Gardening, Pruhonice,post-graduate study,
(„Investigation of microclimatic conditions at vegetational plots in inner Prague in summer months“), degree „candidate of sciences“,  CSc.
1988
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Botany,doctoral examination,  RNDr.
2003–2004
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Sciences,habilitation („Bioindicators and landscape pollution“), plant ecology,  doc.

Professional Experience

1974 – present time
Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, public research institute, Pruhonice
(in the past also called Research Institute for Ornamental Gardening, Research and Breeding Institute for Ornamental Gardening):
postgraduate study (1974–1978), postdoctoral research worker (1979–1985), research scientist (1986–), head of department for Landscape (1995–2000), head of department of Biomonitoring (2001–), deputy director of research (2002–), director (2012–).
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1995 – present time
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
Lecturer of (plant ecology), bioclimatology, and laboratory and field excercises of plant ecology. http://www.natur.cuni.cz/biologie/botanika

Professional interest

Beneficial functions of vegetation in agricultural, industrial and urbanised landscapes.
Utilisation of suitable natural materials for determining pollution levels in the environment.
Bio-indication the pollution loads around local pollution sources in a fine map scale and distribution of environmental pollution at the scale of the Czech Republic.
Maintaining databases on the concentration of pollutants in tree bark, moss, humus and other compartments of forest ecosystems in the Czech Republic since the late 1980s.
Biogeochemistry of forests in the Czech Republic.

Manager of selected projects

2008–2011: „Biogeochemical exploration of forests as a base for the long-term landscape exploitation in the Czech Republic“.
Project supported by a grant from Norway through the Financial Mechanism of Norway

2006–2007: „Mapping of main sources of pollutants and their transport in the Visegrád space“.
Project 11007-2006-IVF, International Visegrad Fund, Bratislava, Slovakia

2005–2011: „Research of non-productive plants and their use in the landscape and settlements of the future“.
Institutional Research Plan, MZP0002707301.

2003–2008: „Atlas of the landscape of the Czech Republic“.
Project of the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, SK/600/1/03.

1999–2004: „Rescue, assembly, holding collections and use of plant assortments for forming cultural landscape, including endangered and deterioriated areas in the Czech Republic“.
Institutional Research Plan: MZPN0101, MZPN0102, MZPN0103, MZPN0104

1984–1990: „Ecology of public urban parks in Prague“.
Coordination of ecological parts of projects  P 16-329-460-01-02 and A 12-329-836-02-02.

Publications

See the list of research and other publications of the biomonitoring team.