World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Award Badge
Plant Science and Agronomy
Czechia
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
58
Citations
12327
World Ranking
1342
National Ranking
10

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
60
Citations
12553
World Ranking
2311
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Czechia Leader Award

Overview

Jiří Doležal is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work addresses various topics related to ecology, vegetation dynamics, and the interplay between plants and the environment.

The main fields of study for Jiří Doležal include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broad fields, Doležal's subfields of focus are:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Plant Science

The topics frequently addressed in Doležal's research span:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

Jiří Doležal has contributed to numerous scientific publications. Some of their recent papers include:

  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential, 2023, Nature
  • Global maps of soil temperature, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • The number of tree species on Earth, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors with whom Doležal has collaborated include:

  • Jan Altman
  • Helge Bruelheide
  • Jürgen Dengler
  • Kirill Korznikov
  • Miroslav Dvorský

Jiří Doležal's works have appeared consistently in several publication venues, reflecting the diversity and relevance of their research. The prominent venues include:

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

Best Publications

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity

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

  • The number of tree species on Earth

    Unknown

  • Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

    Norman W.H. Mason;Francesco de Bello;Jiři Doležal;Jiři Doležal;Jan Lepš;Jan Lepš

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

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

  • Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

    Unknown

  • Detecting local adaptation in widespread grassland species – the importance of scale and local plant community

    Armin Bischoff;Lisèle Crémieux;Marie Smilauerova;Clare S. Lawson

  • CLIMATE VS. SOIL FACTORS IN LOCAL ADAPTATION OF TWO COMMON PLANT SPECIES

    Mirka Macel;Clare S. Lawson;Simon R. Mortimer;Marie Šmilauerova

  • Altitudinal changes in composition and structure of mountain-temperate vegetation: a case study from the Western Carpathians

    Jiří Doležal;Miroslav Šrůtek

  • The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests

    Unknown

  • Long-term effectiveness of sowing high and low diversity seed mixtures to enhance plant community development on ex-arable fields

    Jan Lepŝ;Jan Lepŝ;Jiri Doleẑal;Jiri Doleẑal;T. Martijn Bezemer;Valerie K. Brown

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

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

  • Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

    Unknown

  • Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony.

    Shaopeng Wang;Michel Loreau;Claire de Mazancourt;Forest Isbell

  • Fungal root symbionts of high-altitude vascular plants in the Himalayas.

    Milan Kotilínek;Inga Hiiesalu;Jiří Košnar;Marie Šmilauerová

  • TRADER: A package for Tree Ring Analysis of Disturbance Events in R

    J. Altman;J. Altman;P. Fibich;J. Dolezal;J. Dolezal;T. Aakala

  • Handbook of standardized protocols for collecting plant modularity traits

    Jitka Klimešová;Jitka Klimešová;Jana Martínková;Juli G. Pausas;Moemy Gomes de Moraes

  • Linking Plant Functional Ecology to Island Biogeography.

    Gianluigi Ottaviani;Gunnar Keppel;Lars Götzenberger;Susan Harrison

  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests

    Aida Cuni-Sanchez;Aida Cuni-Sanchez;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Philip J. Platts;Philip J. Platts;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Vegetation types of East Ladakh: species and growth form composition along main environmental gradients: Vegetation of East Ladakh

    M. Dvorský;M. Dvorský;J. Doležal;J. Doležal;F. de Bello;J. Klimešová

  • Plant Functional Traits as Determinants of Population Stability

    Maria Májeková;Maria Májeková;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Jiří Doležal;Jiří Doležal;Jan Lepš;Jan Lepš

  • Does a minimal intervention approach threaten the biodiversity of protected areas? A multi-taxa short-term response to intervention in temperate oak-dominated forests

    Pavel Sebek;Radek Bace;Michael Bartos;Jiri Benes

  • Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use

    Robin J. Pakeman;Eric Garnier;Sandra Lavorel;Pauline Ansquer

  • Adaptive transgenerational plasticity in the perennial Plantago lanceolata

    Vít Latzel;Štěpán Janeček;Jiří Doležal;Jitka Klimešová

  • Tree-rings mirror management legacy: dramatic response of standard oaks to past coppicing in Central Europe.

    Jan Altman;Jan Altman;Radim Hédl;Péter Szabó;Petr Mazůrek;Petr Mazůrek

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Altman
Jan Altman Czech Academy of Sciences
Jitka Klimešová
Jitka Klimešová Czech Academy of Sciences
Jan Lepš
Jan Lepš University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Francesco de Bello
Francesco de Bello Spanish National Research Council
Martin Kopecký
Martin Kopecký Czech Academy of Sciences
Fritz H. Schweingruber
Fritz H. Schweingruber Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Leoš Klimeš
Leoš Klimeš Czech Academy of Sciences
Pierre Liancourt
Pierre Liancourt University of Tübingen
Toshihiko Hara
Toshihiko Hara Hokkaido University
Lars Götzenberger
Lars Götzenberger Czech Academy of Sciences

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Jiří Doležal

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles