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51
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20

Overview

David Storch is affiliated with Charles University in the Czech Republic and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses a broad range of subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Genetics.

The main topics addressed in their research cover Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Avian Ecology and Behavior, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies.

David Storch's recent publications include:

  • Biodiversity dynamics in the Anthropocene: how human activities change equilibria of species richness (2021), published in Ecography
  • Fine-grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation (2021), published in Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Universality in biodiversity patterns: variation in species-temperature and species-productivity relationships reveals a prominent role of productivity in diversity gradients (2021), published in Ecography
  • The relationship between geographic range size and rates of species diversification (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • Decomposing trends in bird populations: Climate, life histories and habitat affect different aspects of population change (2023), published in Diversity and Distributions

Frequent co-authors of David Storch include:

  • Petr Pyšek
  • Klára Pyšková
  • Llewellyn C. Foxcroft
  • Sandra MacFadyen
  • Robert Tropek

Storch has contributed to multiple publications in well-represented venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecography
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • A meta-analysis of global fungal distribution reveals climate-driven patterns

    Tomáš Větrovský;Petr Kohout;Petr Kohout;Martin Kopecký;Martin Kopecký;Antonin Machac

  • Comment on "High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change".

    Robert Tropek;Robert Tropek;Ondřej Sedláček;Jan Beck;Petr Keil;Petr Keil

  • The more-individuals hypothesis revisited: the role of community abundance in species richness regulation and the productivity-diversity relationship.

    David Storch;David Storch;Eliška Bohdalková;Eliška Bohdalková;Jordan Okie

  • Topography, energy and the global distribution of bird species richness

    Richard G. Davies;C. David L Orme;David Storch;Valerie A. Olson

  • On Theory in Ecology

    Pablo A. Marquet;Andrew P. Allen;James H. Brown;Jennifer A. Dunne

  • Biodiversity scales from plots to biomes with a universal species―area curve

    John Harte;Adam B. Smith;David Storch

  • Universal species–area and endemics–area relationships at continental scales

    David Storch;Petr Keil;Walter Jetz

  • The Latitudinal Diversity Gradient: Novel Understanding through Mechanistic Eco-evolutionary Models

    Mikael Pontarp;Lynsey Bunnefeld;Juliano Sarmento Cabral;Rampal S. Etienne

  • Phylogenetic scale in ecology and evolution

    Catherine H. Graham;David Storch;Antonin Machac

  • CORRELATES OF LEAF OPTICAL PROPERTIES IN TROPICAL FOREST SUN AND EXTREME-SHADE PLANTS

    David W. Lee;Richard A. Bone;Sara L. Tarsis;David Storch

  • Linking scaling laws across eukaryotes

    Ian A. Hatton;Andy P. Dobson;David Storch;Eric D. Galbraith

  • The species-area-energy relationship.

    David Storch;Karl L. Evans;Kevin J. Gaston

  • Are cities different? Patterns of species richness and beta diversity of urban bird communities and regional species assemblages in Europe

    Michal Ferenc;Ondřej Sedláček;Roman Fuchs;Roman Fuchs;Marco Dinetti

  • Patterns of beta diversity in Europe: the role of climate, land cover and distance across scales

    Petr Keil;Petr Keil;Oliver Schweiger;Ingolf Kühn;William E. Kunin

  • Structure of the species-energy relationship

    Aletta Bonn;David Storch;David Storch;Kevin J. Gaston

  • Energy, range dynamics and global species richness patterns: reconciling mid-domain effects and environmental determinants of avian diversity.

    David Storch;Richard G. Davies;Samuel Zajicek;C. David L. Orme

  • Macroecology to Unite All Life, Large and Small.

    Ashley Shade;Robert R. Dunn;Robert R. Dunn;Shane A. Blowes;Petr Keil

  • Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees

    Chengjin Chu;James A. Lutz;Kamil Král;Tomáš Vrška

  • Distribution patterns in butterflies and birds of the Czech Republic: separating effects of habitat and geographical position

    David Storch;David Storch;Martin Konvicka;Martin Konvicka;Jiri Benes;Jana Martinková

  • Power‐law species–area relationships and self‐similar species distributions within finite areas

    Arnošt L. Šizling;David Storch;David Storch

  • Shifts in trait means and variances in North American tree assemblages: species richness patterns are loosely related to the functional space

    Irena Šímová;Cyrille Violle;Nathan J.B. Kraft;David Storch;David Storch

  • Untangling ecological complexity on different scales of space and time

    David Storch;David Storch;Kevin J. Gaston

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin J. Gaston
Kevin J. Gaston University of Exeter
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Pablo A. Marquet
Pablo A. Marquet Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences
James H. Brown
James H. Brown University of New Mexico
William E. Kunin
William E. Kunin University of Leeds
Werner Ulrich
Werner Ulrich Nicolaus Copernicus University
Manuel J. Steinbauer
Manuel J. Steinbauer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Jiří Reif
Jiří Reif Charles University
Thomas J. Matthews
Thomas J. Matthews University of Birmingham

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