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Overview

Lukas Cizek is affiliated with Sewanee: The University of the South in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. The subfields of study include Insect Science, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science.

The main topics covered in Cizek's work include Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Forest Management and Policy, Plant and Animal Studies, and Lichen and Fungal Ecology.

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Cizek are the following papers:

  • The effect of coppicing on insect biodiversity. Small-scale mosaics of successional stages drive community turnover, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Connectivity and succession of open structures as a key to sustaining light-demanding biodiversity in deciduous forests, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Lasting decrease in functionality and richness: Effects of ivermectin use on dung beetle communities, 2021, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Telomeric DNA sequences in beetle taxa vary with species richness, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Determinants of invasion by single versus multiple plant species in temperate lowland forests, 2022, Biological Invasions

Cizek frequently publishes in journals such as Biological Conservation, Forest Ecology and Management, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Applied Ecology, and Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment.

They have collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Pavel Šebek, Petr Kozel, Vojtěch Lanta, Jiří Doležal, and David Hauck. These collaborations cover a wide range of studies within their main research fields.

Best Publications

  • Low host specificity of herbivorous insects in a tropical forest

    Vojtech Novotny;Yves Basset;Scott E. Miller;George D. Weiblen

  • Arthropod diversity in a tropical forest

    Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Lukas Cizek;Lukas Cizek;Philippe Cuenoud;Raphael K. Didham

  • The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

    Matthew L. Forister;Vojtech Novotny;Vojtech Novotny;Anna K. Panorska;Leontine Baje

  • Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant–herbivore food webs from a tropical forest

    Vojtech Novotny;Scott E. Miller;Leontine Baje;Solomon Balagawi

  • Habitat preferences of oak-feeding xylophagous beetles in a temperate woodland: implications for forest history and management

    Stepan Vodka;Stepan Vodka;Martin Konvicka;Martin Konvicka;Lukas Cizek;Lukas Cizek

  • Arthropod distribution in a tropical rainforest: Tackling a four dimensional puzzle

    Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Lukas Cizek;Lukas Cizek;Philippe Cuenoud;Raphael K. Didham

  • “Primeval forest relict beetles” of Central Europe: a set of 168 umbrella species for the protection of primeval forest remnants

    Andreas Eckelt;Jörg Müller;Jörg Müller;Ulrich Bense;Hervé Brustel

  • Host specialization of leaf-chewing insects in a New Guinea rainforest

    Vojtech Novotny;Yves Basset;Scott E. Miller;Pavel Drozd

  • Is Active Management the Key to the Conservation of Saproxylic Biodiversity? Pollarding Promotes the Formation of Tree Hollows

    Pavel Sebek;Pavel Sebek;Jan Altman;Jan Altman;Michal Platek;Michal Platek;Lukas Cizek;Lukas Cizek

  • Demography and Dispersal Ability of a Threatened Saproxylic Beetle: A Mark-Recapture Study of the Rosalia Longicorn (Rosalia alpina)

    Lukas Drag;David Hauck;Pavel Pokluda;Kamil Zimmermann

  • 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

  • The effects of edge-interior and understorey-canopy gradients on the distribution of saproxylic beetles in a temperate lowland forest

    Š. Vodka;L. Cizek

  • Erasing a European biodiversity hot-spot: Open woodlands, veteran trees and mature forests succumb to forestry intensification, succession, and logging in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

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  • An altitudinal comparison of caterpillar (Lepidoptera) assemblages on Ficus trees in Papua New Guinea

    Vojtech Novotny;Scott E. Miller;Yves Basset;Lukas Cizek

  • Predictably Simple: Assemblages of Caterpillars (Lepidoptera) Feeding on Rainforest Trees in Papua New Guinea

    Vojtech Novotny;Scott E. Miller;Yves Basset;Lukas Cizek

  • Additional disturbances as a beneficial tool for restoration of post-mining sites: a multi-taxa approach

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  • Colonising aliens: caterpillars (Lepidoptera) feeding on Piper aduncum and P. umbellatum in rainforests of Papua New Guinea

    Vojtech Novotny;Vojtech Novotny;Scott. E. Miller;Lukas Cizek;Jan Leps

  • Vertical stratification and microhabitat selection by the Great Capricorn Beetle (Cerambyx cerdo) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in open-grown, veteran oaks

    Jan Albert;Michal Platek;Lukas Cizek

  • Host plant defences and voltinism in European butterflies

    Lukas Cizek;Zdenek Fric;Martin Konvicka

  • Local species richness of leaf-chewing insects feeding on woody plants from one hectare of a lowland rainforest

    Vojtech Novotny;Yves Basset;Scott E. Miller;Roger L. Kitching

  • IBISCA-Panama, a large-scale study of arthropod beta-diversity and vertical stratification in a lowland rainforest: rationale, description of study sites and field methodology

    Yves Basset;Bruno Corbara;Hector Barrios;Philippe Cuenoud

  • Open-grown trees as key habitats for arthropods in temperate woodlands: The diversity, composition, and conservation value of associated communities

    Pavel Sebek;Stepan Vodka;Petr Bogusch;Pavel Pech

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves Basset
Yves Basset Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Vojtech Novotny
Vojtech Novotny Czech Academy of Sciences
Raphael K. Didham
Raphael K. Didham University of Western Australia
Roger L. Kitching
Roger L. Kitching Griffith University
Bruno Corbara
Bruno Corbara University of Clermont Auvergne
Yves Roisin
Yves Roisin Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jérôme Orivel
Jérôme Orivel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
David W. Roubik
David W. Roubik Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Tomas Roslin
Tomas Roslin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University

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