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Michal Hájek

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Ecology and Evolution
Czechia
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
57
Citations
13079
World Ranking
2693
National Ranking
15

Michal Hájek publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michal Hájek sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 311 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Michal Hájek D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michal Hájek sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Czechia Leader Award

Overview

Michal Hájek is affiliated with Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these larger disciplines, their work is concentrated in subfields including Ecology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's research focuses on themes such as Botany and Plant Ecology Studies, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Bryophyte Studies and Records, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, and Lichen and Fungal Ecology.

Michal Hájek has contributed to numerous publication venues, with notable frequency in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Preslia, Applied Vegetation Science, Journal of Vegetation Science, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Petra Hájková, Tomáš Peterka, Daniel Dítě, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, and Martin Jiroušek. These collaborations have supported extensive research output in their fields of study.

Among recent papers associated with their research interests are:

  • EUNIS Habitat Classification: Expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats, 2020, Applied Vegetation Science
  • Characteristics, Main Impacts, and Stewardship of Natural and Artificial Freshwater Environments: Consequences for Biodiversity Conservation, 2020, Water
  • Ellenberg-type indicator values for European vascular plant species, 2022, Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Linking Plant Functional Ecology to Island Biogeography, 2020, Trends in Plant Science
  • Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0, 2023, Vegetation Classification and Survey

Best Publications

  • Vegetation of Europe: hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities

    Ladislav Mucina;Ladislav Mucina;Helga Bültmann;Klaus Dierßen;Jean-Paul Theurillat

  • Vegetace České republiky 1. Travinná a keříčková společenstva

    Milan Chytrý;Martin Kočí;Kateřina Šumberová;Jiří Sádlo

  • Atmospheric nitrogen deposition promotes carbon loss from peat bogs

    Luca Bragazza;Chris Freeman;Timothy Jones;Håkan Rydin

  • European Red List of Habitats : Part 2. Terrestrial and freshwater habitats

    J. A. M. Janssen;J. S. Rodwell;M. Garcia Criado;S. Gubbay

  • Habitat diversity of central European fens in relation to environmental gradients and an effort to standardise fen terminology in ecological studies

    Michal Hájek;Michal Horsák;Petra Hájková;Daniel Dítě

  • EUNIS Habitat Classification: expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats

    Milan Chytrý;Lubomír Tichý;Stephan M. Hennekens;Ilona Knollová

  • Characteristics, main impacts, and stewardship of natural and artificial freshwater environments: consequences for biodiversity conservation

    Marco Cantonati;Sandra Poikane;Catherine M. Pringle;Lawrence E. Stevens

  • Nitrogen content and d15N signature of ombrotrophic Sphagnum plants in Europe: to what extent is the increasing atmospheric N deposition altering the N-status of nutrient-poor mires?

    Luca Bragazza;Juul Limpens;Renato Gerdol;Philippe Grosvernier

  • Nutritional constraints in ombrotrophic Sphagnum plants under increasing atmospheric nitrogen deposition in Europe

    Luca Bragazza;Teemu Tahvanainen;Lado Kutnar;Håkan Rydin

  • Katalog biotopů České republiky. Druhé vydání

    Milan Chytrý;Tomáš Kučera;Martin Kočí;Vít Grulich

  • Environmental and spatial controls of biotic assemblages in a discrete semi‐terrestrial habitat: comparison of organisms with different dispersal abilities sampled in the same plots

    Michal Hájek;Michal Hájek;Jan Roleček;Jan Roleček;Karl Cottenie;Kateřina Kintrová

  • Spring fen vegetation and water chemistry in the western carpathian flysch zone

    Michal Hájek;Petr Hekera;Petra Hájková

  • Soil protistology rebooted: 30 fundamental questions to start with

    Stefan Geisen;Edward A. D. Mitchell;David M. Wilkinson;Sina Adl

  • The most species-rich plant communities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (with new world records)

    Milan Chytrý;Tomáš Dražil;Michal Hájek;Veronika Kalníková

  • Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species

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  • Plant species richness in continental southern Siberia: effects of pH and climate in the context of the species pool hypothesis

    Milan Chytrý;Jiří Danihelka;Jiří Danihelka;Nikolai Ermakov;Michal Hájek;Michal Hájek

  • OptimClass: Using species‐to‐cluster fidelity to determine the optimal partition in classification of ecological communities

    Lubomír Tichý;Milan Chytrý;Michal Hájek;Michal Hájek;Stephen S. Talbot

  • COMPOSITION AND SPECIES RICHNESS OF MOLLUSCAN COMMUNITIES IN RELATION TO VEGETATION AND WATER CHEMISTRY IN THE WESTERN CARPATHIAN SPRING FENS: THE POOR–RICH GRADIENT

    Michal Horsák;Michal Hájek

  • Linking Plant Functional Ecology to Island Biogeography.

    Gianluigi Ottaviani;Gunnar Keppel;Lars Götzenberger;Susan Harrison

  • Scale‐dependent biases in species counts in a grassland

    Leoš Klimeš;Martin Dančak;Michal Hájek;Ivana Jongepierová

  • Testing a relict distributional pattern of fen plant and terrestrial snail species at the Holocene scale: a null model approach

    Michal Hájek;Michal Horsák;Lubomír Tichý;Petra Hájková

  • Bryophyte and vascular plant responses to base-richness and water level gradients in Western Carpathian Sphagnum -rich mires

    Petra Hájková;Petra Hájková;Michal Hájek;Michal Hájek

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra Hájková
Petra Hájková Masaryk University
Michal Horsák
Michal Horsák Masaryk University
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University
Jiří Danihelka
Jiří Danihelka Masaryk University
Lubomír Tichý
Lubomír Tichý Masaryk University
Tomáš Hájek
Tomáš Hájek University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro University of Oviedo
Luca Bragazza
Luca Bragazza Agroscope
Joop H.J. Schaminée
Joop H.J. Schaminée Wageningen University & Research
Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences

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