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Michal Horsák

Michal Horsák

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
6037
World Ranking
5631
National Ranking
34

Overview

Michal Horsák is affiliated with Masaryk University in the Czech Republic and focuses on research areas within Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work is mainly centered on Ecology, Insect Science, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, reflecting a broad interest in environmental and biological research.

The scientist's main research topics cover Mollusks and Parasites Studies, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Botany and Plant Ecology Studies, and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions. These topics underscore a focus on ecological dynamics and species interactions within diverse aquatic and terrestrial environments.

Among the recent papers published by Michal Horsák are:

  • A European map of groundwater pH and calcium, 2021, Earth system science data
  • What defines insularity for plants in edaphic islands?, 2021, Ecography
  • Invasion at the population level: a story of the freshwater snails Gyraulus parvus and G. laevis, 2021, Hydrobiologia
  • Integrative taxonomic consideration of the Holarctic Euconulus fulvus group of land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), 2020, Systematics and Biodiversity
  • Malacological news from the Czech and Slovak Republics in 2015-2019, 2020, Malacologica Bohemoslovaca

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michal Horsák include Veronika Horsáková, Luboš Beran, Petra Hájková, Jitka Horáčková, and Radovan Coufal. These collaborations likely contribute to multidisciplinary approaches across ecological and malacological studies.

Publishing venues where Michal Horsák has appeared frequently include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Hydrobiologia, Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Quaternary Science Reviews, and SSRN Electronic Journal. These venues represent a range of platforms for environmental, biological, and ecological science dissemination.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Diversity of Central European urban biota: effects of human-made habitat types on plants and land snails

    Zdeňka Lososová;Michal Horsák;Milan Chytrý;Tomáš Čejka

  • Mollusc community patterns and species response curves along a mineral richness gradient: a case study in fens

    Michal Horsák

  • 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

  • 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

  • Prehistoric origin of extremely species-rich semi-drygrasslands in the Bílé Karpaty Mts.

    Petra Hájková;Jan Roleček;Michal Hájek;Michal Horsák

  • Prehistoric origin of the extremely species-rich semi-dry grasslands in the Bílé Karpaty Mts (Czech Republic and Slovakia).

    P. Hájková;J. Roleček;M. Hájek;M. Horsák

  • Habitats of relict terrestrial snails in southern Siberia: lessons for the reconstruction of palaeoenvironments of full‐glacial Europe

    Michal Horsák;Milan Chytrý;Beata M. Pokryszko;Jiří Danihelka;Jiří Danihelka

  • Land snail distribution patterns within a site: The role of different calcium sources

    Lucie Juřičková;Michal Horsák;Robert Cameron;Robert Cameron;Kristoffer Hylander

  • The age of island-like habitats impacts habitat specialist species richness.

    Michal Horsák;Michal Hájek;Daniel Spitale;Petra Hájková;Petra Hájková

  • Patterns of land-snail succession in Central Europe over the last 15,000 years: main changes along environmental, spatial and temporal gradients

    Lucie Juřičková;Michal Horsák;Jitka Horáčková;Vojtěch Abraham

  • MODERN DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS OF SNAILS AND PLANTS IN THE WESTERN CARPATHIAN SPRING FENS: IS IT A RESULT OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT?

    Michal Horsák;Michal Hájek;Michal Hájek;Daniel Dítě;Lubomír Tichý

  • Plant indicator values as a tool for land mollusc autecology assessment

    Michal Horsák;Michal Hájek;Michal Hájek;Lubomír Tichý;Lucie Juřičková

  • The relationship between plant species richness and soil pH vanishes with increasing aridity across Eurasian dry grasslands

    Salza Palpurina;Viktoria Wagner;Henrik von Wehrden;Michal Hájek

  • Mollusc diversity patterns in Central European fens: hotspots and conservation priorities

    Michal Horsák;Nicole Cernohorsky

  • The role of dispersal mode and habitat specialisation in metacommunity structuring of aquatic macroinvertebrates in isolated spring fens

    Vanda Rádková;Jindřiška Bojková;Vendula Křoupalová;Jana Schenková

  • Impact of reservoirs and channelization on lowland river macroinvertebrates: A case study from Central Europe

    Michal Horsák;Jindřiška Bojková;Světlana Zahrádková;Marie Omesová

  • Using multi-proxy palaeoecology to test a relict status of refugial populations of calcareous-fen species in the Western Carpathians

    Petra Hájková;Petra Hájková;Michal Horsák;Michal Hájek;Michal Hájek;Vlasta Jankovská;Vlasta Jankovská

  • The species richness–productivity relationship in the herb layer of European deciduous forests

    Irena Axmanová;Milan Chytrý;David Zelený;Ching-Feng Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra Hájková
Petra Hájková Masaryk University
Michal Hájek
Michal Hájek Masaryk University
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University
Jiří Danihelka
Jiří Danihelka Masaryk University
Lubomír Tichý
Lubomír Tichý Masaryk University
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro University of Oviedo
Thierry Backeljau
Thierry Backeljau Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Tim R. McClanahan
Tim R. McClanahan Wildlife Conservation Society
Ulrich Hambach
Ulrich Hambach University of Bayreuth
Norbert Hölzel
Norbert Hölzel University of Münster

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