Specialization
Recovery of mountain lakes from atmospheric acidification; eutrophication of reservoirs and fishponds; extracellular enzymes, partiuclarly phosphatases of phytoplankton; resource stoichiometry of plankton; microbial interactions in Utricularia traps.
Brief CV
Education
2007 Assoc. Prof. (habilitation), University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice; Hydrobiology (Activities of extracellular hydrolases – their sources and ecological role in freshwaters)
1989 Ph.D., Charles University, Prague; Hydrobiology (Influence of environmental conditions on occurrence of nitrification in freshwaters)
1982 M.S., Charles University, Prague; Biology and Ecology (A share of bacteria-sized seston in different freshwaters)
Appointments
2012–present Professor, University of South Bohemia (USB), České Budějovice
2007–2012 Associate Professor, University of South Bohemia (USB), České Budějovice
2002–2007 Teacher Assistant, University of South Bohemia (USB), České Budějovice
2006–present Senior Scientist, Biology Centre AS CR, České Budějovice
1990–2005 Research Scientist, Institute of Hydrobiology AS CR, České Budějovice
1988–1989 Research Scientist, Institute of Landscape Ecology CAS, České Budějovice
1983–1987 Ph.D. Student, Institute of Landscape Ecology CAS, České Budějovice
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Projects (PI)
2019–2021 Who eats whom? Zooming-in on alternative energy transfer pathways in planktonic food webs of shallow lakes
2017–2019 Fishponds as models for exploring plankton diversity and dynamics of hypertrophic shallow lakes
2015–2017 Do long-term zooplankton data in the Slapy reservoir reflect land use and/or climate changes in the past 50 years?
2011–2014 Hunters or gardeners? Probing plant-microbe interactions in rootless carnivorous Utricularia from a transcriptomic perspective
2007–2011 Constrains and limits of biological recovery from acid stress: What is the future of headwater ecosystems in the Bohemian Forest?
2002–2005 Detection, localisation and quantification of extracellular enzymatic activities on cellular and population level in natural lake seston
1997–1999 Biodiversity of microbial loop, carbon flow and nutrient cycling in acidified lakes in the Šumava Mountains: pathways and controlling mechanisms