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Petr Petřík is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Their research spans multiple interconnected areas within environmental science and biological sciences, with a particular focus on ecological dynamics and plant studies.

The main fields of study for Petr Petřík include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Their work further branches into specialized subfields, such as:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Global and Planetary Change

Key topics in Petr Petřík's research encompass:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

Petr Petřík's recent scientific publications include:

  • "Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming," 2020, Science
  • "Pladias Database of the Czech flora and vegetation," 2021, Preslia
  • "Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe's temperate forest biome," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats," 2021, Ecology Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Petr Petřík include:

  • Radim Hédl
  • Markéta Chudomelová
  • Martin Kopecký
  • Martin Macek
  • Frantíšek Máliš

Their research is commonly published in:

  • Science
  • Preslia
  • New Phytologist
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;David Anthony Coomes;Lander Baeten

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

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

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Driving factors behind the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of deciduous temperate forests

    Kris Verheyen;Lander Baeten;Pieter De Frenne;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Oliver Purschke

  • Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

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

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

  • Pladias Database of the Czech Flora and Vegetation

    Milan Chytrý;Jiří Danihelka;Zdeněk Kaplan;Jan Wild

  • 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

  • Vegetation succession in restoration of disturbed sites in Central Europe: the direction of succession and species richness across 19 seres

    Karel Prach;Klára Řehounková;Kamila Lencová;Alena Jírová

  • sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Jonathan Lenoir;Tarek Hattab;Elise Aimee Arnst

  • Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research

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

  • 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

  • Poleward migration of the destructive effects of tropical cyclones during the 20th century.

    Jan Altman;Jan Altman;Olga N Ukhvatkina;Alexander M Omelko;Martin Macek

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

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  • Vegetace České republiky 4. Lesní a křovinná vegetace

    Milan Chytrý;Jan Douda;Jan Roleček;Jiří Sádlo

  • Vegetace České republiky 2. Ruderální, plevelová, skalní asuťová vegetace

    Milan Chytrý;Deana Láníková;Zdeňka Lososová;Jiří Sádlo

  • Dark side of the fence: ornamental plants as a source ofwild-growing flora in the Czech Republic

    Jan Pergl;Jiří Sádlo;Petr Petřík;Jiří Danihelka

  • Using long-term ecosystem service and biodiversity data to study the impacts and adaptation options in response to climate change: Insights from the global ILTER sites network

    Petteri Vihervaara;Dalia D’Amato;Martin Forsius;Per Angelstam

  • Observer and relocation errors matter in resurveys of historical vegetation plots

    Kris Verheyen;Martin Bažány;Ewa Chećko;Markéta Chudomelová

  • Robinia pseudoacacia-dominated vegetation types of Southern Europe: Species composition, history, distribution and management

    Michaela Vítková;Jiří Sádlo;Jan Roleček;Petr Petřík

  • Distributions of vascular plants in the Czech Republic. Part 7

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  • Plant distribution data for the Czech Republic integrated in the Pladias database

    Jan Wild;Zdeněk Kaplan;Jiří Danihelka;Petr Petřík

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Kopecký
Martin Kopecký Czech Academy of Sciences
Radim Hédl
Radim Hédl Czech Academy of Sciences
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Pieter De Frenne
Pieter De Frenne Ghent University
Jörg Brunet
Jörg Brunet Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Guillaume Decocq
Guillaume Decocq University of Picardie Jules Verne
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Thilo Heinken
Thilo Heinken University of Potsdam
Lander Baeten
Lander Baeten Ghent University
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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