Specialization

Disturbance of forest ecosystems, their delineation, development and dynamic. Research is focused mainly on spruce forest decay in the Šumava Mts. due to bark beetle outbreak.

Modeling of vegetation cover using climatic predictors.

Potential of climatic anomalies for vegetation communities.

Brief CV

Since 2008: Reaserch assistant, Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science
University of South Bohemia

2011: Fulbright fellow: Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA (6 months)

2003 – 2008: Reaserch assistant, Applied ecology laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture,
University of South Bohemia

2001: Erasmus scholarship; Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany (6 months)

2000 –2008: PhD study, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. PhD thesis: The development and spectral response of deforestation in central part of Šumava Mountains assessed using remote sensing and GIS (RNDr., PhD.)

1996 - 2000: Msc. Study: biology, hydrobiology Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague (Mgr.)

1993 - 2000: Msc. Study: biology – geography: Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague (Mgr.)

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Projects:

2011 – 2015 GAČR (P504/11/0454): Biodiversity change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition: modern analogues in relict ecosystems of Siberia

2010 – 2014 GAČR (526/09/1749): The role of disturbances in dynamics of temperate mountain spruce-dominated forests – a landscape simulation model of the Šumava Mts.

2007 – 2009 GAAV (B600870701): Mountain spruce forests after bark beetle outbreak: dynamics of vegetation and natural regeneration