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Completed projects

David Boukal (The Czech Science Foundation, 2018 to 2020) Overlooked man-made habitats: understanding the drivers and patterns of freshwater biota in polluted standing waters	Hana Šantrůčková 2012 to 2016) The effect of natural dieback of mountain spruce forest on microclimate, chemistry, and biodiversity of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
Karolina Tahovská 2014 to 2016) Acidity and nutrient constraints on organic matter balance and nitrogen saturation in forest soils	Jiří Bárta 2016 to 2018) MiCryoFun - Microorganisms in Arctic cryoturbated soils - drivers of organic matter transformations in a changing climate
Tomáš Picek (GAČR, 2013 to 2016) Functional diversity of soil microorganisms in spruce swamp forest and its effect on soil DOM	David Boukal (The Czech Science Foundation, 2017 to 2019) Freshwater ectotherms under climate change: the role of phenotypic plasticity in life histories and trophic interactions
Hana Šantrůčková (The Czech Science Foundation, 2017 to 2019) Phosphorus dynamics in unmanaged terrestrial ecosystems: Links with nitrogen and carbon cycling	Karel Šimek 2013 to 2017) Unveiling life strategies of selected groups of planktonic Betaproteobacteria in relationship to carbon flow to higher trophic levels
Jaroslav Vrba (The Czech Science Foundation, 2017 to 2019) Fishponds as models for exploring plankton diversity and dynamics of hypertrophic shallow lakes	Eva Kaštovská (The Czech Science Foundation, 2019 to 2021) Biotic and abiotic factors governing phosphorus losses from undeveloped alpine soils
Karolina Tahovská (GAAV, 2009 to 2011) What are the main mechanisms affecting N flow through soil N pools in N saturated mountain soils?	Jaroslav Vrba (The Czech Science Foundation, 2019 to 2021) Who eats whom and when? Zooming-in on alternative energy transfer pathways in planktonic food webs of hypertrophic shallow lakes
Eva Kaštovská (Czech Science Foundation, 2014 to 2016) Disentangling the effects of changing environmental chemistry and climate on biogeochemistry and biodiversity of natural alpine soils and waters.	Eva Kaštovská (The Czech Science Foundation, 2019 to 2021) The role of nutrient availability in microbial soil organic matter formation and stabilization in agricultural soils of different C saturation status
Jana Jersáková (The Czech Science Foundation, 2018 to 2020) New insights into niche partitioning of coexisting terrestrial orchids: functional traits shaping orchid-fungus interactions	Eva Kaštovská 2016 to 2018) C:N stoichiometry in plant-soil interactions: effects on plant metabolism and processes in the rhizosphere
Jaroslav Vrba 2011 to 2014) Hunters or gardeners? Probing plant-microbe interactions in rootless carnivorous Utricularia from a transcriptomic perspective	Zuzana Urbanová (GAČR, project no. 14-17403P, 2014 to 2016) Effect of hydrological restoration of long-term drained peatlands on functional diversity of soil microorganisms in relation to organic matter quality
Hana Šantrůčková (The Czech Science Foundation, 2019 to 2021) An interdisciplinary study on element cycling in mountain catchment-lake systems regenerating from tree dieback	Keith Edwards (The Czech Science Foundation, 2019 to 2021) The influence of plant functional type and phenology on plant inputs to soil as affected by simultaneous changes in environmental factors
Eva Kaštovská (Grantová agentura České republiky, 2016 to 2018) C:N stoichiometry in plant-soil interactions: effects on plant metabolism and processes in the rhizosphere	David Boukal 2012 to 2015) Monitoring and large-scale survey of the presence and distribution of the endangered diving beetles Graphoderus bilineatus and Dytiscus latissimus in the Czech Republic