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44
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6997
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5104
National Ranking
29

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Martin Kopecký is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Their work primarily spans Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's research addresses various interconnected topics within ecology and environmental sciences. These include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant and Animal Studies, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Climate Change and Permafrost.

Martin Kopecký has contributed to several recent publications. Notable papers include:

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming, 2020, Science
  • Topographic Wetness Index calculation guidelines based on measured soil moisture and plant species composition, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Global maps of soil temperature, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • ForestTemp - Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests, 2021, Global Change Biology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Martin Macek
  • Pieter De Frenne
  • Jonathan Lenoir
  • Jan Wild
  • Frantíšek Máliš

Martin Kopecký's research has been published in a variety of venues, with a significant number of works appearing in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Science
  • New Phytologist
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Best Publications

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

    Florian Zellweger;Florian Zellweger;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir;Pieter Vangansbeke

  • A meta-analysis of global fungal distribution reveals climate-driven patterns

    Tomáš Větrovský;Petr Kohout;Petr Kohout;Martin Kopecký;Martin Kopecký;Antonin Machac

  • Climate at ecologically relevant scales: A new temperature and soil moisture logger for long-term microclimate measurement

    Jan Wild;Martin Kopecký;Martin Macek;Martin Macek;Martin Šanda

  • Topographic Wetness Index calculation guidelines based on measured soil moisture and plant species composition.

    Martin Kopecký;Martin Kopecký;Martin Macek;Jan Wild

  • Half a century of succession in a temperate oakwood: from species-rich community to mesic forest.

    Radim Hédl;Martin Kopecký;Martin Kopecký;Josef Komárek

  • Resurveying historical vegetation data - opportunities and challenges.

    Jutta Kapfer;Radim Hédl;Gerald Jurasinski;Martin Kopecký;Martin Kopecký

  • Seasonal drivers of understorey temperature buffering in temperate deciduous forests across Europe

    Florian Zellweger;Florian Zellweger;David Coomes;Jonathan Lenoir;Leen Depauw

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

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

  • Using topographic wetness index in vegetation ecology: does the algorithm matter?

    Martin Kopecký;Martin Kopecký;Štěpánka Čížková

  • Environment, vegetation and greenness (NDVI) along the North America and Eurasia Arctic transects

    D A Walker;H E Epstein;M K Raynolds;P Kuss;P Kuss

  • Non-random extinctions dominate plant community changes in abandoned coppices

    Martin Kopecký;Martin Kopecký;Radim Hédl;Péter Szabó

  • Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity vary across spatial scales

    Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Lander Baeten;Dylan Craven;Pieter De Frenne

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

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

  • Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies.

    Michael P. Perring;Michael P. Perring;Markus Bernhardt‐Römermann;Lander Baeten;Gabriele Midolo;Gabriele Midolo

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

    Milan Kotilínek;Inga Hiiesalu;Jiří Košnar;Marie Šmilauerová

  • ForestTemp - Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests.

    Stef Haesen;Jonas J. Lembrechts;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research

    Kris Verheyen;Pieter De Frenne;Lander Baeten;Donald M Waller

  • Vegetation resurvey is robust to plot location uncertainty

    Martin Kopecký;Martin Kopecký;Martin Macek;Martin Macek

  • Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe’s temperate forest biome

    Ingmar R. Staude;Donald M. Waller;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Anne D. Bjorkman

  • Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats.

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  • Experimental restoration of coppice-with-standards: Response of understorey vegetation from the conservation perspective

    Ondřej Vild;Jan Roleček;Radim Hédl;Martin Kopecký

  • Forest fires within a temperate landscape: a decadal and millennial perspective from a sandstone region in Central Europe.

    Martin Adámek;Přemysl Bobek;Věroslava Hadincová;Jan Wild

Frequent Co-Authors

Radim Hédl
Radim Hédl Czech Academy of Sciences
Jan Wild
Jan Wild Czech Academy of Sciences
Jiří Doležal
Jiří Doležal Czech Academy of Sciences
Michael P. Perring
Michael P. Perring Ghent University
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Bogdan Jaroszewicz
Bogdan Jaroszewicz University of Warsaw
Jörg Brunet
Jörg Brunet Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Thilo Heinken
Thilo Heinken University of Potsdam
Guillaume Decocq
Guillaume Decocq University of Picardie Jules Verne
Monika Wulf
Monika Wulf University of Potsdam

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