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Kamil Král is affiliated with the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague in the Czech Republic. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, insect science, and plant science.

The main topics covered in their work involve forest ecology and management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, remote sensing in agriculture, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

The scientist has published research in several venues multiple times. Frequent publication venues include:

  • New Phytologist
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Remote Sensing
  • Fungal Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of the recent publications attributed to Kamil Král include:

  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Supervised Segmentation of Ultra-High-Density Drone Lidar for Large-Area Mapping of Individual Trees, 2020, Remote Sensing

Kamil Král collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Martin Krůček
  • Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira
  • James A. Lutz
  • Yadvinder Malhi
  • Sean M. McMahon

Best Publications

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale.

    Joseph A. LaManna;Scott A. Mangan;Alfonso Alonso;Norman A. Bourg;Norman A. Bourg

  • 3D Forest: An application for descriptions of three-dimensional forest structures using terrestrial LiDAR.

    Jan Trochta;Martin Krůček;Tomáš Vrška;Kamil Král

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • The role of tree uprooting in soil formation: a critical literature review.

    Pavel Šamonil;Kamil Král;Libor Hort

  • New Opportunities for Forest Remote Sensing Through Ultra-High-Density Drone Lidar

    James R. Kellner;John Armston;Markus Birrer;K. C. Cushman

  • Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees

    Chengjin Chu;James A. Lutz;Kamil Král;Tomáš Vrška

  • Local variability of stand structural features in beech dominated natural forests of Central Europe: Implications for sampling

    Kamil Král;David Janík;Tomáš Vrška;Dušan Adam

  • Developmental phases in a temperate natural spruce-fir-beech forest: determination by a supervised classification method

    Kamil Král;Tomáš Vrška;Libor Hort;Dušan Adam

  • Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world.

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  • Patch mosaic of developmental stages in central European natural forests along vegetation gradient

    Kamil Král;Sean M. McMahon;David Janík;Dušan Adam

  • Dynamics of a clinal hybrid zone and a comparison with island hybrid zones of flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca and F. albicollis)

    G.-P. Sætre;K. Král;S. Bures;R. A. Ims

  • Tree spatial patterns of Fagus sylvatica expansion over 37 years

    David Janík;Kamil Král;Dusan Adam;Libor Hort

  • Spatial and volume patterns of an unmanaged submontane mixed forest in Central Europe: 160 years of spontaneous dynamics

    Barbora Šebková;Pavel Šamonil;David Janík;Dušan Adam

  • Natural gap dynamics in a Central European mixed beech—spruce—fir old-growth forest

    Kata Kenderes;Kamil Král;Tomáš Vrška;Tibor Standovár

  • Individual‐based approach to the detection of disturbance history through spatial scales in a natural beech‐dominated forest

    Pavel Šamonil;Petra Doleželová;Ivana Vašíčková;Dušan Adam

  • Spatial variability of general stand characteristics in central European beech-dominated natural stands – Effects of scale

    Kamil Král;Martin Valtera;David Janík;Pavel Šamonil

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide

    Yonglin Zhong;Chengjin Chu;Jonathan A. Myers;Gregory S. Gilbert

  • How do environmental conditions affect the deadwood decomposition of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)

    Tomáš Přívětivý;David Janík;Pavel Unar;Dušan Adam

  • Tree layer dynamics of the Cahnov–Soutok near-natural floodplain forest after 33 years (1973–2006)

    David Janik;Dusan Adam;Tomas Vrska;Libor Hort

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomáš Vrška
Tomáš Vrška Mendel University Brno
Pavel Šamonil
Pavel Šamonil Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Sean M. McMahon
Sean M. McMahon Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Fangliang He
Fangliang He University of Alberta
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Patrick A. Jansen
Patrick A. Jansen Wageningen University & Research
James A. Lutz
James A. Lutz Utah State University
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Geoffrey G. Parker
Geoffrey G. Parker Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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