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Jiří Reif is affiliated with Charles University in the Czech Republic and specializes in Environmental Science. Their work spans a range of research areas including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their primary research topics cover Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Avian ecology and behavior, Plant and animal studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Genetic diversity and population structure.

Jiří Reif has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • "Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe" (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Long-term and large-scale multispecies dataset tracking population changes of common European breeding birds" (2021, Scientific Data)
  • "Effects of urbanization on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic avian diversity in Europe" (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Shifts in migration phenology under climate change: temperature vs. abundance effects in birds" (2020, Climatic Change)
  • "Bird population declines and species turnover are changing the acoustic properties of spring soundscapes" (2021, Nature Communications)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors including Petr Voříšek, Anna Gamero, Ainārs Auniņš, Tomasz Chodkiewicz, and Åke Lindström.

Jiří Reif has published extensively in various venues, with frequent contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Ecological Indicators, Global Ecology and Conservation, The Science of The Total Environment, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale

    Vincent Devictor;Chris van Swaay;Tom Brereton;Lluı´s Brotons

  • Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe

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  • Population trends of widespread woodland birds in Europe

    Richard D. Gregory;Petr Vorisek;Arco Van Strien;Adriaan W. Gmelig Meyling

  • Consistent response of bird populations to climate change on two continents

    Philip A. Stephens;Lucy R. Mason;Rhys E. Green;Rhys E. Green;Richard D. Gregory

  • More and more generalists: two decades of changes in the European avifauna.

    Isabelle Le Viol;Frédéric Jiguet;Lluis Brotons;Sergi Herrando

  • Agricultural intensification and farmland birds : new insights from a central European country

    Jiří Reif;Petr Voříšek;Karel Šastný;Vladimír Bejček

  • FEMALE HETEROGAMETY AND SPECIATION: REDUCED INTROGRESSION OF THE Z CHROMOSOME BETWEEN TWO SPECIES OF NIGHTINGALES

    Radka Storchová;Jiří Reif;Michael W. Nachman

  • Collapse of farmland bird populations in an Eastern European country following its EU accession

    Jiří Reif;Jiří Reif;Zdeněk Vermouzek

  • Tracking Progress Toward EU Biodiversity Strategy Targets: EU Policy Effects in Preserving its Common Farmland Birds

    Anna Gamero;Lluís Brotons;Ariel Brunner;Ruud P B Foppen

  • Long-Term Trends in Bird Populations: A Review of Patterns and Potential Drivers in North America and Europe

    Jiří Reif;Jiří Reif

  • Bird-habitat associations predict population trends in central European forest and farmland birds

    Jiří Reif;David Storch;Petr Voříšek;Karel Šťastný

  • Long-term and large-scale multispecies dataset tracking population changes of common European breeding birds

    Vojtěch Brlík;Vojtěch Brlík;Eva Šilarová;Jana Škorpilová;Hany Alonso

  • Unusual abundance–range size relationship in an Afromontane bird community: the effect of geographical isolation?

    Jiří Reif;David Hořák;Ondřej Sedláček;Jan Riegert

  • The quest for a null model for macroecological patterns: geometry of species distributions at multiple spatial scales

    David Storch;Arnost L. Sizling;Arnost L. Sizling;Jirri Reif;Jitka Polechova;Jitka Polechova

  • Linking habitat specialization with species’ traits in European birds

    Jiří Reif;David Hořák;Anton Krištín;Lenka Kopsová

  • Effects of urbanization on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic avian diversity in Europe.

    Federico Morelli;Yanina Benedetti;Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo;Piotr Tryjanowski

  • Species abundance distribution results from a spatial analogy of central limit theorem.

    Arnost L. Sizling;David Storch;Eva Sizlingova;Jirri Reif

  • Habitat specialization of birds in the Czech Republic: comparison of objective measures with expert opinion

    Jiří Reif;Frédéric Jiguet;Karel Šťastný

  • Continent‐scale global change attribution in European birds ‐ combining annual and decadal time scales

    Peter Søgaard Jørgensen;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;Kasper Thorup;Anders P. Tøttrup

  • Shifts in migration phenology under climate change: temperature vs. abundance effects in birds

    Jaroslav Koleček;Jaroslav Koleček;Peter Adamík;Jiří Reif

  • Population trends of birds across the iron curtain: Brain matters

    Jir ˇ í Reif;Jir ˇ í Reif;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;Martin Flade;Johannes Schwarz

  • Between Geometry and Biology: The Problem of Universality of the Species-Area Relationship

    Arnošt L. Šizling;William E. Kunin;Eva Šizlingová;Jiří Reif

  • Impacts of an invasive tree across trophic levels: Species richness, community composition and resident species’ traits

    Martin Hejda;Jan Hanzelka;Tomáš Kadlec;Martin Štrobl

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomáš Albrecht
Tomáš Albrecht Charles University
Åke Lindström
Åke Lindström Lund University
David Storch
David Storch Charles University
Lluís Brotons
Lluís Brotons Spanish National Research Council
Frédéric Jiguet
Frédéric Jiguet French National Museum of Natural History
Richard D. Gregory
Richard D. Gregory University College London
Vincent Devictor
Vincent Devictor University of Montpellier
Aleksi Lehikoinen
Aleksi Lehikoinen University of Helsinki
Michael W. Nachman
Michael W. Nachman University of California, Berkeley
Petr Procházka
Petr Procházka Czech Academy of Sciences

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