Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Salza (neé Todorova) Palpurina, born November 1, 1984, Sofia, married

Department

• Department of Botany and Zoology
  Masaryk University
  Kotlárská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno (Mailing address)
  Kamenice 5, building A32, CZ-625 00 Brno-Bohunice (Visiting address)
  Czech Republic

Employment - Position

• doctoral student
• researcher, Vegetation Science Group

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2010 – 2017: Ph.D. student in Botany; Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic; Thesis: "Diversity and ecology of dry grasslands in Bulgaria"; Advisor: prof. Milan Chytrý
• 2007 – 2009: M.Sc. in Botany; Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria; Thesis: Syntaxonomical analysis of grasslands in Bosnek karst region (Southern Vitosha) and medicinal plants in their composition - phytosociological role of their populations; Advisor: Dr. Rossen Tzonev, Ph.D.
• 2003 – 2007: B.Sc. in Biology; Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria

Employment

• Oct 2010 – Oct 2017: Researcher, Department of Botany and zoology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
• Oct 2008 – Sept 2010: Nature conservation officer, Vitosha Natural Park Directorate, Sofia, Bulgaria

Teaching Activities

• Big data analysis in R (assistant)

Scientific and Research Activities

• diversity patterns, vegetation ecology, phytosociology, dry grasslands, macroecology

Major Publications

• WAGNER, Viktoria, Milan CHYTRÝ, David ZELENÝ, Henrik VON WEHRDEN, Annika BRINKERT, Jiří DANIHELKA, Florian JANSEN, Norbert HÖLZEL, Johannes KAMP, Pavel LUSTYK, Kristina MERUNKOVÁ, Salza PALPURINA, Zdenka PREISLEROVÁ and Karsten WESCHE. Regional differences in soil pH niche among dry grassland plants in Eurasia. Oikos. Hoboken, NJ USA: Wiley, 2017, vol. 126, No 5, p. 660-670. ISSN 0030-1299. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.03369. URL info
• PALPURINA, Salza, Viktoria WAGNER, Henrik VON WEHRDEN, Michal HÁJEK, Michal HORSÁK, Annika BRINKERT, Norbert HÖLZEL, Karsten WESCHE, Johannes KAMP, Petra HÁJKOVÁ, Jiří DANIHELKA, Pavel LUSTYK, Kristina MERUNKOVÁ, Zdenka PREISLEROVÁ, Martin KOČÍ, Svatava KUBEŠOVÁ, Mikhail CHEROSOV, Nikolai ERMAKOV, Dmitry A. GERMAN, Paraskovia GOGOLEVA, Nikolai LASHCHINSKY, Vassiliy MARTYNENKO and Milan CHYTRÝ. The relationship between plant species richness and soil pH vanishes with increasing aridity across Eurasian dry grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Hoboken: Wiley, 2017, vol. 26, No 4, p. 425-434. ISSN 1466-822X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12549. URL info
• PALPURINA, Salza, Milan CHYTRÝ, Rossen TZONEV, Jiří DANIHELKA, Irena AXMANOVÁ, Kristina MERUNKOVÁ, Mário DUCHOŇ and Todor KARAKIEV. Patterns of fine-scale plant species richness in dry grasslands across the eastern Balkan Peninsula. Acta Oecologica. Elsevier, 2015, vol. 63, February, p. 36-46. ISSN 1146-609X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2015.02.001. URL info
• TURTUREANU, Pavel Dan, Salza PALPURINA, Thomas BECKER, Dolnik CHRISTIAN, Eszter RUPRECHT, Laura ME SUTCLIFFE, Anna SZABÓ and Jürgen DENGLER. Scale- and taxon-dependent biodiversity patterns of dry grassland vegetation in Transylvania (Romania). Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. Elsevier, 2014, vol. 182, JANUARY, p. 15-24. ISSN 0167-8809. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2013.10.028. info
• PEDASHENKO, Hristo, Iva APOSTOLOVA, Steffen BOCH, Anna GANEVA, Monika JANIŠOVÁ, Desislava SOPOTLIEVA, Salza TODOROVA, Aslan ÜNAL, Kiril VASSILEV, Nikolay VELEV and Jürgen DENGLER. Dry grasslands of NW Bulgarian mountains: first insights into diversity, ecology and syntaxonomy. Tuexenia. Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft, 2013, vol. 33, No 33, p. 309-346. ISSN 0722-494X. URL info
• TODOROVA, Salza and Rossen TZONEV. Bromo moesiacae-Stipetum epilosae - a new association from the relict mountain steppe vegetation in South-Western Bulgaria. Hacquetia. Ljubljana: Biološki institut Jovana Hadžija ZRC SAZ, 2010, vol. 9, No 2, p. 185-206. ISSN 1581-4661. URL info

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