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Tomáš Albrecht

Tomáš Albrecht

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
5058
World Ranking
6204
National Ranking
40

Overview

Tomáš Albrecht is affiliated with Charles University in the Czech Republic. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader fields, their work is concentrated in several subfields, notably Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

The main topics of their research include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Avian ecology and behavior, Plant and animal studies, Genetic diversity and population structure, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations.

Their publication record includes contributions to a variety of journals, with frequent appearances in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, and Molecular Ecology.

Among their recent scientific papers are:

  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests, 2021, Nature
  • A global analysis of song frequency in passerines provides no support for the acoustic adaptation hypothesis but suggests a role for sexual selection, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • A supergene underlies linked variation in color and morphology in a Holarctic songbird, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The Indo-European flyway: Opportunities and constraints reflected by Common Rosefinches breeding across Europe, 2021, Journal of Biogeography
  • Bird tolerance to humans in open tropical ecosystems, 2023, Nature Communications

Tomáš Albrecht collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Oldřich Tomášek, Ondřej Sedláček, Radka Reifová, David Hořák, and Pavel Munclinger.

Best Publications

  • Functional analysis of the skin‐swelling response to phytohaemagglutinin

    Michal Vinkler;Michal Vinkler;Hana Bainová;Tomáš Albrecht;Tomáš Albrecht

  • Do prey densities determine preferences of mammalian predators for habitat edges in an agricultural landscape

    Martin Šálek;Martin Šálek;Jakub Kreisinger;Jakub Kreisinger;František Sedláček;František Sedláček;Tomáš Albrecht;Tomáš Albrecht

  • A global analysis of song frequency in passerines provides no support for the acoustic adaptation hypothesis but suggests a role for sexual selection.

    Peter Mikula;Peter Mikula;Mihai Valcu;Henrik Brumm;Martin Bulla;Martin Bulla

  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests

    Aida Cuni-Sanchez;Aida Cuni-Sanchez;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Philip J. Platts;Philip J. Platts;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • The first report on natural Enterocytozoon bieneusi and Encephalitozoon spp. infections in wild East-European House Mice (Mus musculus musculus) and West-European House Mice (M. m. domesticus) in a hybrid zone across the Czech Republic–Germany border

    Bohumil Sak;Martin Kváč;Martin Kváč;Dana Květoňová;Tomáš Albrecht

  • Sperm Length Variation as a Predictor of Extrapair Paternity in Passerine Birds

    Jan T. Lifjeld;Terje Laskemoen;Oddmund Kleven;Tomas Albrecht

  • Extrapair paternity and the opportunity for sexual selection in long-distant migratory passerines

    Tomáš Albrecht;Tomáš Albrecht;Jan Schnitzer;Jakub Kreisinger;Alice Exnerová

  • Nest Crypsis, Reproductive Value of a Clutch and Escape Decisions in Incubating Female Mallards Anas platyrhynchos

    Tomas Albrecht;Tomas Albrecht;Petr Klvana

  • Cloacal Microbiome Structure in a Long-Distance Migratory Bird Assessed Using Deep 16sRNA Pyrosequencing

    Jakub Kreisinger;Dagmar Čížková;Lucie Kropáčková;Tomáš Albrecht

  • Development of Unique House Mouse Resources Suitable for Evolutionary Studies of Speciation

    Jaroslav Pialek;Martina Vyskocilova;Barbora Bimova;Dana Havelkova

  • Temporal Stability and the Effect of Transgenerational Transfer on Fecal Microbiota Structure in a Long Distance Migratory Bird

    Jakub Kreisinger;Lucie Kropáčková;Adéla Petrželková;Marie Kotasová Adámková

  • Female choice for genetic complementarity in birds: a review.

    Herman L. Mays;Herman L. Mays;Tomas Albrecht;Tomas Albrecht;Mark Liu;Geoffrey E. Hill

  • Evolution of female promiscuity in Passerides songbirds

    Jan Terje Lifjeld;Jostein Gohli;Tomas Albrecht;Tomas Albrecht;Eduardo Garcia-del-Rey

  • Postcopulatory sexual selection is associated with accelerated evolution of sperm morphology.

    Melissah Rowe;Melissah Rowe;Tomas Albrecht;Tomas Albrecht;Emily Rebecca Alison Cramer;Arild Johnsen

  • Carotenoid maintenance handicap and the physiology of carotenoid-based signalisation of health

    Michal Vinkler;Michal Vinkler;Tomáš Albrecht;Tomáš Albrecht

  • A sex-chromosome inversion causes strong overdominance for sperm traits that affect siring success.

    Ulrich Knief;Ulrich Knief;Wolfgang Forstmeier;Yifan Pei;Malika Ihle

  • Sperm-related phenotypes implicated in both maintenance and breakdown of a natural species barrier in the house mouse.

    Jana Albrechtová;Tomáš Albrecht;Tomáš Albrecht;Stuart J. E. Baird;Miloš Macholán

  • Corridor vs. hayfield matrix use by mammalian predators in an agricultural landscape

    Martin Šálek;Martin Šálek;Jakub Kreisinger;František Sedláček;František Sedláček;Tomáš Albrecht;Tomáš Albrecht

  • Where are the wormy mice? A reexamination of hybrid parasitism in the European house mouse hybrid zone.

    Stuart J. E. Baird;Alexis Ribas;Miloš Macholán;Tomáš Albrecht

  • Codiversification of gastrointestinal microbiota and phylogeny in passerines is not explained by ecological divergence

    Lucie Kropáčková;Martin Těšický;Tomáš Albrecht;Tomáš Albrecht;Jan Kubovčiak

  • Repeated intraspecific divergence in life span and aging of African annual fishes along an aridity gradient.

    Radim Blažek;Matej Polačik;Petr Kačer;Alessandro Cellerino

  • Nest protection in mallards Anas platyrhynchos: untangling the role of crypsis and parental behaviour

    J. Kreisinger;T. Albrecht;T. Albrecht

Frequent Co-Authors

Josef Bryja
Josef Bryja Czech Academy of Sciences
Jana Albrechtová
Jana Albrechtová Charles University
Jan T. Lifjeld
Jan T. Lifjeld University of Oslo
Bart Kempenaers
Bart Kempenaers Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Arild Johnsen
Arild Johnsen University of Oslo
Wolfgang Forstmeier
Wolfgang Forstmeier Max Planck Society
Jiří Reif
Jiří Reif Charles University
Rebecca J. Safran
Rebecca J. Safran University of Colorado Boulder
Piotr Tryjanowski
Piotr Tryjanowski University of Life Sciences in Poznań
Mihai Valcu
Mihai Valcu Max Planck Society

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