A5004809169- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Forest ecology and management
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Forest Management and Policy
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Botanical Studies and Applications
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Bryophyte Studies and Records
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany
2019-2025
Czech Academy of Sciences
2024
University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
2018-2023
South Bohemia research center of aquaculture and biodiversity of hydrocenoses
2022
Danube Research Institute
2015-2017
Centre for Ecological Research
2015-2017
Institute for Regional Studies
2015
University of Debrecen
2012-2013
Significance The stability of ecological communities under ongoing climate and land-use change is fundamental to the sustainable management natural resources through its effect on critical ecosystem services. Biodiversity hypothesized enhance compensatory effects (decreased synchrony between species). However, relative importance interplay different biotic abiotic drivers remain controversial. By analyzing long-term data from seminatural ecosystems across globe, we found that degree among...
Abstract Quantifying the relative importance of how local (environmental or niche‐based) and regional (dispersal‐related spatial) processes regulate assembly communities has become one main research avenues community ecology. It been shown that degree isolation habitats in landscape may substantially influence role environmental filtering dispersal‐related metacommunities. Dendritic stream networks are unique landscape, where more isolated upstream sites have predicted to be primarily...
The existing plant trait databases' applicability is limited for studies dealing with the flora and vegetation of eastern central part Europe large-scale comparisons across regions, mostly because their geographical data coverage they incorporate records from several different sources, often regions markedly climatic conditions. These problems motivated compilation a regional dataset Pannonian region (Eastern Central Europe). PADAPT, Dataset Plant Traits relies on sources collates 54 traits...
Background and aims Dolines are small- to large-sized bowl-shaped depressions of karst surfaces. They may constitute important microrefugia, as thermal inversion often maintains cooler conditions within them. This study aimed identify the effects large- (macroclimate) small-scale (slope aspect vegetation type) environmental factors on cool-adapted plants in dolines East-Central Europe. We also evaluated potential these be microrefugia that mitigate climate change both forest grassland...
Abstract Aims Floral traits are frequently studied in population biology and evolutionary ecology but rarely considered functional trait‐based studies focusing on the assembly of communities. We address this gap community by synthesizing existing literature processes driving floral pollination‐related trait patterns at scales. highlight limitations field due to lack data suggest potential directions future research. Methods conducted a systematic search collating that investigated context...
Summary Major dimensions of plant ecological strategies have been widely studied bringing forward the concept ‘economic spectra’ plants. Sexual reproductive traits, ‘floral traits’, largely neglected in this context, despite their strong link to fitness. Here, we aimed at integrating floral traits into dimensionality form and function so far dominated by vegetative traits. We used principal component analyses constructed trait networks assess correlation structure leaf, belowground,...
Abstract Analysing temporal patterns in plant communities is extremely important to quantify the extent and consequences of ecological changes, especially considering current biodiversity crisis. Long‐term data collected through regular sampling permanent plots represent most accurate resource study succession, analyse stability a community over time understand mechanisms driving vegetation change. We hereby present LOng‐Term Vegetation Sampling (LOTVS) initiative, global collection...
Summary Floral deception is widespread in orchids, with more than one‐third of the species being pollinated this way. The evolutionary success deceptive orchids puzzling, as employing strategy are thought to have low reproductive (less flowers yielding fruits) because pollination rates. However, direct measurements total seed production – which a better measure scarce due extremely small size their seeds. Here, we quantified numbers 1015 fruits belonging 48 orchid from Pannonian ecoregion...
Abstract Functional and phylogenetic diversity (FD PD respectively) of the resident community are expected to exert a key role in resistance colonization by surrounding species, their establishment success. However, few studies have explored this topic experimentally or evaluated interactive effects these measures. We implemented experiment disentangle FD sowing mixtures 6 drawn from pool 19 species naturally coexisting central European mesic meadows. The were designed cover four independent...
Abstract Ecological differences between coexisting species within plant communities can be assessed by considering functional and phylogenetic dissimilarities either separately or in a complementary way. Here, we studied (a) the potential overlap (FD) diversities (PD) (b) their combined unique roles explaining community assembly patterns across different temperate vegetation types traits representing multiple dimensions of strategy (plant size, leaf, floral reproductive, clonal bud bank...
Microrefugia are often located within topographically complex regions where stable environmental conditions prevail. Most of the studies concerning distributions climate change-sensitive species have emphasized dominance cold air pooling over other factors, such as resource availability. There is a shortage information on relationships among topography-related microsite diversity, microclimate, availability, and composition in microrefugia. To fill this knowledge gap, we studied effects...
Limestone (karst) surfaces in Hungary are rich dolines, which many endangered vascular plant species occur. To date, the majority of studies dealing with doline vegetation have focused on local rather than landscape level, without using comparative data from other areas. However, this study we aimed to compare pattern and composition dolines under different climate regimes regard regional pools. The fieldwork was carried out between 2005 2012. Twenty were selected Mecsek Mountains (southern...
Abstract Trait‐based approaches are widely used in community ecology and invasion biology to unravel underlying mechanisms of vegetation dynamics. Although fundamental trade‐offs between specific traits invasibility well described among terrestrial plants, little is known about their role function aquatic plant species. In this study, we examine the functional differences alien native plants stating that species differ selected leaf traits. Our investigation based on 60 taxa (21 39 native)...
Ecological theory posits that temporal stability patterns in plant populations are associated with differences species' ecological strategies. However, empirical evidence is lacking about which traits, or trade-offs, underlie species stability, especially across different biomes. We compiled a worldwide collection of long-term permanent vegetation records (greater than 7000 plots from 78 datasets) large range habitats we combined existing trait databases. tested whether the observed...
Abstract Floral traits describe organs or structures directly related to plant reproduction, and they are essential understanding plant–pollinator interactions, notably for conservation purposes. The growth of trait‐based approaches lies in the availability data shared by international research community on dedicated platforms, as well protocols compiled handbooks how measure these a standardized way. important pieces that missing from handbooks, likely due complexity flower morphology....
Abstract Questions Compensatory dynamics are described as one of the main mechanisms that increase community stability, e.g., where decreases some species on a year‐to‐year basis offset by an in others. Deviations from perfect synchrony between (asynchrony) have therefore been advocated important mechanism underlying biodiversity effects stability. However, it is unclear to what extent existing measures actually capture signal fluctuations presence long‐term directional trends both abundance...
Közleményünk célja a Magyarország edényes növényfajainak elterjedési atlasza térképeinek kiegészítése, főként aktuális előfordulási adatokkal. Összesen 297 taxon adatait közöljük az ország egész területéről, mintegy 247 flóratérképezési negyed-kvadrátból. Az adatok között ritkább taxonok (például Armoracia macrocarpa (Waldst. et Kit.) Kit. ex Baumg., Samolus valerandi L., Epipactis voethii Robatsch) mellett országosan elterjedt, de többé-kevésbé adathiányos fajok Ranunculus ficaria Viola...
Theories explaining community assembly assume that biotic and abiotic filters sort species into communities based on the values of their traits are thus between-species trait variability (BTV). Nevertheless, these act individuals rather than species. Consequently, selection is also influenced by intraspecific (ITV) its drivers. These drivers may be (e.g., water availability) or competition). Although closely related should have similar traits, many them coexist. We investigated relative...
Abstract In the face of global pollinator decline, extensively managed grasslands play an important role in supporting stable communities. However, different types extensive management may promote particular plant species and thus functional traits. As traits flowering (e.g., flower size shape) a habitat help determine identity frequency visitors, they can also influence structures plant−pollinator interaction networks (i.e., pollination networks). The aim this study was to examine how type...