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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
9953
World Ranking
4067
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Czechia Leader Award

Overview

Jiří Kopáček is affiliated with the Institute of Hydrobiology at the Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with an emphasis on ecology, environmental chemistry, global and planetary change, insect science, and water science and technology.

Their work spans several main topics within environmental science, including soil and water nutrient dynamics, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, hydrology and watershed management studies, fire effects on ecosystems, forest insect ecology and management, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Jiří Kopáček has contributed to multiple recent publications, some of which include:

  • Cleaner air reveals growing influence of climate on dissolved organic carbon trends in northern headwaters, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Coupling the resource stoichiometry and microbial biomass turnover to predict nutrient mineralization and immobilization in soil, 2020, Geoderma
  • Changes in microclimate and hydrology in an unmanaged mountain forest catchment after insect-induced tree dieback, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Bulk deposition and throughfall fluxes of elements in the Bohemian Forest (central Europe) from 1998 to 2009, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Small-scale chemical and isotopic variability of hydrological pathways in a mountain lake catchment, 2020, Journal of Hydrology

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Petr Porcal (23 publications)
  • Jiří Kaňa (20 publications)
  • Josef Hejzlar (15 publications)
  • Karolina Tahovská (11 publications)
  • Michal Choma (10 publications)

Jiří Kopáček has published extensively in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment (8 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (7 publications)
  • Helda (University of Helsinki) (4 publications)
  • Ecological Indicators (3 publications)
  • Journal of Hydrology (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Dissolved organic carbon trends resulting from changes in atmospheric deposition chemistry.

    Donald T. Monteith;John L. Stoddard;Christopher D. Evans;Heleen A. de Wit

  • Recovery from acidification in European surface waters

    Christopher D. Evans;J. M. Cullen;Christine Alewell;Jiří Kopáček

  • Mountain lakes: Eyes on global environmental change

    K. A. Moser;J. S. Baron;J. Brahney;I. A. Oleksy

  • Aluminum control of phosphorus sorption by lake sediments.

    Jirí Kopácek;Jakub Borovec;Josef Hejzlar;Kai-Uwe Ulrich

  • Global change revealed by palaeolimnological records from remote lakes : a review

    Jordi Catalan;Sergi Pla-Rabés;Alexander P. Wolfe;John P. Smol

  • Seasonal ecosystem variability in remote mountain lakes: implications for detecting climatic signals in sediment records

    J. Catalan;J. Catalan;M. Ventura;A. Brancelj;I. Granados

  • Response of sulphur dynamics in European catchments to decreasing sulphate deposition

    A. Prechtel;C. Alewell;M. Armbruster;J. Bittersohl

  • Sulfur and nitrogen emissions in the Czech Republic and Slovakia from 1850 till 2000

    Jiří Kopáček;Josef Veselý

  • Recovery of Acidified European Surface Waters

    Richard F. Wright;Thorjørn Larssen;Lluis Camarero;Bernard J. Cosby

  • Semi-micro determination of total phosphorus in fresh waters with perchloric acid digestion

    J. Kopáček;J. Hejzlar

  • Long-term studies (1871–2000) on acidification and recovery of lakes in the Bohemian Forest (central Europe)

    Jaroslav Vrba;Jiřı ́ Kopáček;Jan Fott;Leoš Kohout

  • Regionalisation of chemical variability in European mountain lakes

    Lluís Camarero;Michela Rogora;Rosario Mosello;Nicholas J. Anderson

  • Nitrogen, organic carbon and sulphur cycling in terrestrial ecosystems: linking nitrogen saturation to carbon limitation of soil microbial processes

    Jiří Kopáček;Bernard J. Cosby;Christopher D. Evans;Jakub Hruška

  • Widespread diminishing anthropogenic effects on calcium in freshwaters

    Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Jens Hartmann;Dag O. Hessen;Jiří Kopáček

  • Reversibility of acidification of mountain lakes after reduction in nitrogen and sulphur emissions in Central Europe

    Jiří Kopáček;Josef Hejzlar;Evžien Stuchlík;Jan Fott

  • Consequence of altered nitrogen cycles in the coupled human and ecological system under changing climate: The need for long-term and site-based research

    Hideaki Shibata;Christina Branquinho;William H. McDowell;Myron J. Mitchell

  • Modelling reversibility of Central European mountain lakes from acidification: Part I - the Bohemian forest

    Vladimír Majer;Bernard J. Cosby;Jirí Kopácek;Josef Veselý

  • Modelling the effect of climate change on recovery of acidified freshwaters : Relative sensitivity of individual processes in the MAGIC model

    R. F. Wright;J. Aherne;Kevin Bishop;Lluís Camarero

  • Hysteresis in Reversal of Central European Mountain Lakes from Atmospheric Acidification

    Jiří Kopáček;Evžen StuchlÍk;Josef Veselý;Jochen Schaumburg

  • Cleaner air reveals growing influence of climate on dissolved organic carbon trends in northern headwaters

    Heleen A de Wit;John L Stoddard;Donald T Monteith;James E. Sample

  • Natural inactivation of phosphorus by aluminum in atmospherically acidified water bodies.

    Jiřı́ Kopáček;Kai-Uwe Ulrich;Josef Hejzlar;Jakub Borovec

Frequent Co-Authors

Josef Hejzlar
Josef Hejzlar Czech Academy of Sciences
Hana Šantrůčková
Hana Šantrůčková University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Stephen A. Norton
Stephen A. Norton University of Maine
Richard F. Wright
Richard F. Wright Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Chris D. Evans
Chris D. Evans UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Miroslav Svoboda
Miroslav Svoboda Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Maximilian Posch
Maximilian Posch International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Lluís Camarero
Lluís Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Bernard J. Cosby
Bernard J. Cosby University of Virginia

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