Cultural capital of Bratislava and its influence on tourism

This thesis is analyzing culture and tourism in Bratislava, which has already became tourist destination in the past and it has large potential to become a favourite destination due to its rich history, culture and nature. Firstly, there are given basic definitions for better orientation and understanding of this theme. Last part focuses on culture and tourism in Bratislava with a view to the city as a tourist destination. In thesis I focused on analysis of tourist infrastructure, competition, marketing and destination management. The part of the thesis is presenting the analysis of Bratislava culture and information centre, which is aimed to the city promotion

Circumscription of species of Hodophilus (Clavariaceae, Agaricales) in North America with naphthalene odours

Five North American Hodophilus species with a naphthalene-like odour are now recognized based on sequence and/or morphological data and molecular annotation of type collections. Two well-supported eastern North American species do not match any of the studied types and are described here as new: Hodophilus hesleri and Hodophilus smithii. The previously described Hodophilus paupertinus is found to represent an autonomous species and appears restricted to western North America. Hodophilus subfuscescens is found to be an independent lineage in eastern North America. A morphological type study of Hodophilus peckianus shows that it is a distinct species and not represented among recent collections. Multi-locus phylogenetic analyses of European and North American material of species with naphthalene odours reveal no species with transatlantic distributions. Overall, Hodophilus comprises two superclades (the Hodophilus foetens superclade and the Hodophilus micaceus superclade) and 16 terminal clades that correspond to phylogenetic species. This study introduces a new approach for morphological delimitation of agaricoid Clavariaceae combining shape and dimensions of particular elements in the pileipellis and caulocystidia. All previously described taxa included in this study, which were previously treated in the genera Hygrophorus, Camarophyllopsis or Hygrotrama, are formally transferred to Hodophilus.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author

Hodophilus (Clavariaceae, Agaricales) species with dark dots on the stipe:more than one species in Europe

Hodophilus atropunctus is traditionally defined as the only species of this genus with dark brown or black dots on the stipe. Multi-locus phylogenetic reconstruction recognised two distinct clades morphologically corresponding to this species concept. The limited morphological description in the protologue of H. atropunctus and absence of a type specimen were limitations in an assignment of this name to one of the recognised phylogenetic species. The emended species concept and the selection of a neotype are based on careful analyses of the colour of the basidiomata and how this changes during maturation and drying. The name H. atropunctus is assigned to the paler of the two species which also shows colour change across the pileus and along the length of the stipe when dry. The second darker species is described here as new, H. variabilipes, but only seven out of 14 collections examined belonging to this taxon had distinct dark coloured dots on the stipe surfacePeer reviewe