Péter Szabó Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences Department of Ecology Porici 3b, 603 00 Brno Czech Republic szabo@policy.hu

Péter Szabó is an historical ecologist. He received his PhD (2003) in Medieval Studies at the Central European University in Budapest. Since 2008, he has been working at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences on a project about Czech ancient woodland. He specialises in Hungarian and Central European woodland and landscape history from the beginning of the Holocene until the nineteenth century. His own research is based on the examination of written sources (from the Middle Ages onwards) as well as on landscape archaeological fieldwork. His publications include the monograph Woodland and Forests in Medieval Hungary (Oxford, Archaeopress, 2005) and the edition (with József Laszlovszky) of People and Nature in Historical Perspective (CEU Medieval Studies and Archaeolingua, 2003), a collection of essays on the environmental history of Central and Eastern Europe.