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Overview

Jan Wild is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on plant science, ecological modeling, and ecology-related disciplines.

Their work covers various specialized subfields including Plant Science, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

Jan Wild's research topics often center around:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Bryophyte Studies and Records
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Mediterranean and Iberian Flora and Fauna

Recent publications by Jan Wild include:

  • "Topographic Wetness Index calculation guidelines based on measured soil moisture and plant species composition" (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Pladias Database of the Czech flora and vegetation" (2021) published in Preslia
  • "ForestTemp - Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests" (2021) published in Global Change Biology
  • "Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography" (2024) published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Vegetation structure derived from airborne laser scanning to assess species distribution and habitat suitability: The way forward" (2022) published in Diversity and Distributions

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Martin Kopecký
  • Martin Macek
  • Matěj Man
  • J Bruna
  • Jiří Danihelka

Jan Wild regularly publishes in journals such as Preslia, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, The Science of The Total Environment, and Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Best Publications

  • Forest disturbances under climate change

    Rupert Seidl;Dominik Thom;Markus Kautz;Dario Martin-Benito;Dario Martin-Benito

  • Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe

    Petr Pysek;Vojtech Jarosík;Philip E Hulme;Ingolf Kühn

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

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

  • European map of alien plant invasions based on the quantitative assessment across habitats

    Milan Chytrý;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Jan Wild;Joan Pino

  • Climate at ecologically relevant scales: A new temperature and soil moisture logger for long-term microclimate measurement

    Jan Wild;Martin Kopecký;Martin Macek;Martin Macek;Martin Šanda

  • Topographic Wetness Index calculation guidelines based on measured soil moisture and plant species composition.

    Martin Kopecký;Martin Kopecký;Martin Macek;Jan Wild

  • Contrasting patterns in the invasions of European terrestrial and freshwater habitats by alien plants, insects and vertebrates

    Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Sven Bacher;Milan Chytrý;Vojtěch Jarošík;Vojtěch Jarošík

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Plant invasions in the Czech Republic: current state,introduction dynamics, invasive species and invaded habitats

    Petr Pyšek;Milan Chytrý;Jan Pergl;Jiří Sádlo

  • ALIEN PLANTS IN TEMPERATE WEED COMMUNITIES: PREHISTORIC AND RECENT INVADERS OCCUPY DIFFERENT HABITATS

    Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Vojtěch Jarošík;Vojtěch Jarošík;Milan Chytrý;Zdeněk Kropáč

  • Pladias Database of the Czech Flora and Vegetation

    Milan Chytrý;Jiří Danihelka;Zdeněk Kaplan;Jan Wild

  • Tree mortality submodels drive simulated long-term forest dynamics: assessing 15 models from the stand to global scale

    Harald Bugmann;Rupert Seidl;Florian Hartig;Friedrich Bohn;Friedrich Bohn

  • Vegetation dynamics at the upper elevational limit of vascular plants in Himalaya.

    Jiri Dolezal;Jiri Dolezal;Miroslav Dvorsky;Martin Kopecky;Pierre Liancourt

  • Projecting trends in plant invasions in Europe under different scenarios of future land-use change

    Milan Chytrý;Jan Wild;Jan Wild;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Vojtěch Jarošík;Vojtěch Jarošík

  • ForestTemp - Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests.

    Stef Haesen;Jonas J. Lembrechts;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Effects of abiotic factors on species richness and cover in Central European weed communities

    Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Vojtěch Jarošík;Vojtěch Jarošík;Zdeněk Kropáč;Milan Chytrý

  • Potential natural vegetation of the Czech Republic

    Zdenka Neuhäuslová;Jaroslav Moravec;Milan Chytrý;Vojen Ložek

  • Forest fires within a temperate landscape: a decadal and millennial perspective from a sandstone region in Central Europe.

    Martin Adámek;Přemysl Bobek;Věroslava Hadincová;Jan Wild

  • Colonization of high altitudes by alien plants over the last two centuries.

    Petr Pyšek;Vojtěch Jarošík;Jan Pergl;Jan Wild

  • Comparing the rate of invasion by Heracleum mantegazzianum at continental, regional, and local scales

    Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Vojtêch Jarošík;Vojtêch Jarošík;Jana Müllerová;Jan Pergl

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Kopecký
Martin Kopecký Czech Academy of Sciences
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University
Jiří Doležal
Jiří Doležal Czech Academy of Sciences
Jan Pergl
Jan Pergl Czech Academy of Sciences
Vojtěch Jarošík
Vojtěch Jarošík Charles University
Tomáš Herben
Tomáš Herben Charles University
Miroslav Svoboda
Miroslav Svoboda Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Zuzana Münzbergová
Zuzana Münzbergová Charles University
Montserrat Vilà
Montserrat Vilà Spanish National Research Council

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