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Ecology and Evolution
Czechia
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
75
Citations
28492
World Ranking
1034
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Czechia Leader Award

Overview

Jan Lepš is affiliated with the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice in the Czech Republic. Their research primarily spans fields such as Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers several topics related to ecology, vegetation dynamics, and species studies. Major research areas include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Jan Lepš has published in various academic journals and venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Functional Ecology
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on ecosystem stability, community dynamics, and functional traits within ecology. Examples include:

  • "Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle" (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Towards a more balanced combination of multiple traits when computing functional differences between species" (2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
  • "Pladias Database of the Czech flora and vegetation" (2021, Preslia)
  • "Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony" (2021, Ecology)

Frequent collaborators of Jan Lepš include:

  • Petr Šmilauer
  • Aleš Lisner
  • Francesco de Bello
  • Lars Götzenberger
  • Enrique Valencia

In addition to articles, Jan Lepš has contributed to book publishing, notably with the title "Biostatistics with R" released by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Multivariate analysis of ecological data using CANOCO

    Jan Lepš;Petr Šmilauer

  • Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data

    Jan Leps̆;Petr S̆milauer

  • Ecological assembly rules in plant communities--approaches, patterns and prospects.

    Lars Götzenberger;Francesco de Bello;Kari Anne Bråthen;John Davison

  • Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using Canoco 5

    Petr Šmilauer;Jan LepŠ

  • Assessing the effects of land-use change on plant traits, communities and ecosystem functioning in grasslands: a standardized methodology and lessons from an application to 11 European sites.

    Eric Garnier;Sandra Lavorel;Pauline Ansquer;Helena Castro

  • Quantifying and interpreting functional diversity of natural communities: practical considerations matter

    J. Leps;F. de Bello;S. Lavorel;S. Berman

  • Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects

    Jan Lepš;Francesco de Bello;Petr Šmilauer;Jiří Doležal

  • Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales

    Carlos P. Carmona;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Norman W.H. Mason;Jan Lepš;Jan Lepš

  • Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant–herbivore food webs from a tropical forest

    Vojtech Novotny;Scott E. Miller;Leontine Baje;Solomon Balagawi

  • Leaf traits capture the effects of land use changes and climate on litter decomposability of grasslands across Europe

    Claire Fortunel;Eric Garnier;Richard Joffre;Elena Kazakou

  • Variations in species and functional plant diversity along climatic and grazing gradients

    Francesco De Bello;Jan Lepš;Maria-Teresa Sebastià

  • Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?

    Michael Kleyer;Stéphane Dray;Stéphane Dray;Francescode Bello;Jan Lepš

  • The partitioning of diversity: showing Theseus a way out of the labyrinth

    Francesco De Bello;Sébastien Lavergne;Christine N. Meynard;Jan Lepš

  • Community stability, complexity and species life history strategies

    J. Lepš;J. Osbornová-Kosinová;M. Rejmánek

  • Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence

    Francesco De Bello;Francesco De Bello;Wilfried Thuiller;Jan Lepš;Jan Lepš;Philippe Choler

  • Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity

    Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Sandra Lavorel;Cécile H. Albert;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Nutrient status, disturbance and competition: an experimental test of relationships in a wet meadow

    Jan Lepš

  • Effect of small-scale disturbance on butterfly communities of an Indochinese montane rainforest

    Karel Spitzer;Josef Jaros̆;Jan Havelka;Jan Leps̆

  • WHY THERE ARE SO FEW SPECIES OF APHIDS, ESPECIALLY IN THE TROPICS

    A. F. G. Dixon;P. Kindlmann;J. Leps;J. Holman

  • Predictive value of plant traits to grazing along a climatic gradient in the Mediterranean

    Francesco De Bello;Jan Lepš;Maria-Teresa Sebastià

  • Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO: Preface

    Jan Lepš;Petr Šmilauer

  • Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO 5: Sample data sets and projects

    Petr Šmilauer;Jan Lepš

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco de Bello
Francesco de Bello Spanish National Research Council
Jiří Doležal
Jiří Doležal Czech Academy of Sciences
Lars Götzenberger
Lars Götzenberger Czech Academy of Sciences
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University
Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet
Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet King Juan Carlos University
Carlos P. Carmona
Carlos P. Carmona University of Tartu
Yves Basset
Yves Basset Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Meelis Pärtel
Meelis Pärtel University of Tartu
Maria-Teresa Sebastià
Maria-Teresa Sebastià University of Lleida
Jitka Klimešová
Jitka Klimešová Czech Academy of Sciences

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