Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
Brno, Czech Republic
Joined March 2017
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New spider species in Czechia. Jumping spider Attulus inexpectus and cobweb spider Crustulina sticta were found during invertebrate monitoring - part of LIFE in Salt Marshes project.
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#arachnology #entomology #lifeinsaltmarshes @MUNI_Science @muni_cz
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We sampled a grassland in Armenia with 90 and 104 vascular plant species in plots of 10 m² and 25 m², respectively. These counts are higher than those recorded in any European grassland so far, except for the Carpathian region and steppes near Kursk.
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Can we trust? Yes, we can trust estimates of species turnover, but estimates of changes in species richness are less reliable. Our new article in the Journal of Ecology: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70… @jecol
Does it matter how a tree dies? Our research in Biological Conservation journal shows that trees that die standing and fall years later host significantly more fungal species than trees that are uprooted while alive. @BluecatThe
doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.202…
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Our new study, led by Xiao-Peng Tan, maps the distribution of plant strategies across European grasslands and projects how current patterns will be affected by ongoing climate change.
Open-access article: doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08334
@EcographyJourna
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The first comprehensive analysis of vegetation changes across Europe, based on the ReSurveyEurope dataset, is out! In an article led by Stephan Kambach, we analyzed 57,390 time series of vegetation plots. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-7…
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Our new study, led by Marc Riera, compares European niches and habitat relationships of alien plant species introduced intentionally or unintentionally. doi.org/10.1111/geb.70245
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Our new article in Science Advances, led by Gabriele Midolo, identifies the main factors driving changes in the species composition of plant communities across Europe: eutrophication, denser, more productive vegetation, and drying of wetlands. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb24…
Sexual selection and reproductive success in mesocosm populations of African annual killifish
doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70433 @fish_jakub_zak
Last week Martin Večeřa participated in 2nd OSCARS Annual General Meeting in Seville. He presented interim results of project Implementing FAIR principles in European Vegetation Archive data (EVA-FAIR).
OSCARS (Open Science Clusters' Action for Research & Society) is funded by European Commission’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme oscars-project.eu.
Check out poster doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18776… and the first-year project results czechveg.github.io
What did Europe’s wetlands look like 15,000 years ago and how have they become what we see today?🌿
Our new study introduces a way to identify entire past habitats using plant macrofossils and large vegetation databases @VegetPaleo @Science_USB @CTS_uk_av
doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2026…
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Záznam mé přednášky z Pražského hradu byl zveřejněn na YouTube:
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After publishing species occurrence data in GBIF, we have now also made available online 117,739 vegetation plots from the Czech Vegetation Database in CSV and Turboveg formats, complemented with a data processing tutorial.
czechveg.github.io/
Even a slight deterioration in the conservation status of our small Sphagnum fens can be seen from space – can we use this in their monitoring?
doi.org/10.1002/rse2.70067 #Fens #Remotesensing #Biodiversity #Climateimpact #Natureconservation
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We have just published 2,474,166 records of plant species occurrences from the Czech Vegetation Database in GBIF: doi.org/10.15468/94bfqd
These records represent 74% of the plant occurrence data and 30% of all organism occurrence data in the GBIF database for the Czech Republic.
We are proud of Martin Večeřa, who received TACR project from Environment for life 2 program called Steppic grasslands of Southern Moravia – an analysis of current state, development, and resources for ecological restoration
tacr.gov.cz/program-prostred…
#botany #grassland #Moravia
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In two webinars on 13 and 27 March, we will present tools for open publishing of vegetation data, using the example of the Czech Vegetation Database (>117,000 vegetation plots), which goes fully open!
Registration for 17 March:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
A new paper led by Joshua Erkelenz has been published in the Journal of Vegetation Science! We showed how elevation, slope aspect, and tree canopy filter the understory functional composition in broadleaved forests in the Apennines.
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