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45
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5037
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4931
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28

Overview

Tomáš Grim is affiliated with Palacký University, Olomouc in the Czech Republic. Their research spans across Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing primarily on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Specific subfields of interest include Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Insect Science.

The main topics of their work cover Plant and animal studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Avian ecology and behavior.

Tomáš Grim has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Journal of Avian Biology
  • Animal Behaviour

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Tomáš Grim include:

  • Bird tolerance to humans in open tropical ecosystems, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Effects of climate variation on bird escape distances modulate community responses to global change, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Are birds reliable indicators of most valuable natural areas? Evaluation of special protection areas in the context of habitat protection, 2021, Ecological Indicators
  • Can nest design hinder brood parasitism success?, 2024, Journal of Avian Biology
  • Author Correction: Effects of climate variation on bird escape distances modulate community responses to global change, 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent coauthors working alongside Tomáš Grim include:

  • Piotr Tryjanowski (4 collaborations)
  • Mario Dı́az (3 collaborations)
  • Gábor Markó (3 collaborations)
  • Federico Morelli (3 collaborations)
  • Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo (3 collaborations)

Best Publications

  • The geography of fear: a latitudinal gradient in anti-predator escape distances of birds across Europe

    Mario Díaz;Anders Pape Møller;Einar Flensted-Jensen;Tomáš Grim

  • High urban population density of birds reflects their timing of urbanization.

    Anders Pape Møller;Mario Diaz;Einar Flensted-Jensen;Tomas Grim

  • Constraints on host choice: Why do parasitic birds rarely exploit some common potential hosts?

    Tomáš Grim;Peter Samaš;Csaba Moskát;Oddmund Kleven

  • The modelling of avian visual perception predicts behavioural rejection responses to foreign egg colours

    Phillip Cassey;Marcel Honza;Tomas Grim;Mark Erno Hauber

  • The evolution of nestling discrimination by hosts of parasitic birds: why is rejection so rare?

    Tomás ÿ Grim

  • Experimental evidence for chick discrimination without recognition in a brood parasite host.

    Tomas ÿ Grim

  • Contagious fear: Escape behavior increases with flock size in European gregarious birds.

    Federico Morelli;Yanina Benedetti;Mario Díaz;Tomas Grim

  • Rural-Urban Differences in Escape Behavior of European Birds across a Latitudinal Gradient

    Diogo S. M. Samia;Daniel T. Blumstein;Mario Díaz;Tomas Grim

  • Nestling discrimination without recognition: a possible defence mechanism for hosts towards cuckoo parasitism?

    Tomáš Grim;Oddmund Kleven;Oldřich Mikulica

  • Mimicry vs. similarity: which resemblances between brood parasites and their hosts are mimetic and which are not?

    Tomáš Grim

  • Are blue eggs a sexually selected signal of female collared flycatchers? A cross-fostering experiment

    Miloš Krist;Tomáš Grim

  • Why are birds' eggs colourful? Eggshell pigments co‐vary with life‐history and nesting ecology among British breeding non‐passerine birds

    Phillip Cassey;Phillip Cassey;Gavin H. Thomas;Steven J. Portugal;Steven J. Portugal;Golo Maurer;Golo Maurer

  • HOST RECOGNITION OF BROOD PARASITES: IMPLICATIONS FOR METHODOLOGY IN STUDIES OF ENEMY RECOGNITION

    Tomáš Grim

  • A shared chemical basis of avian host-parasite egg colour mimicry.

    Branislav Igic;Phillip Cassey;Phillip Cassey;Tomáš Grim;David R. Greenwood;David R. Greenwood

  • Cuckoo growth performance in parasitized and unused hosts: not only host size matters

    Tomáš Grim

  • Urbanized birds have superior establishment success in novel environments

    Anders Pape Møller;Mario Díaz;Einar Flensted-Jensen;Tomas Grim

  • Egg discrimination along a gradient of natural variation in eggshell coloration.

    Daniel Hanley;Tomáš Grim;Branislav Igic;Branislav Igic;Peter Samaš

  • Blunt egg pole holds cues for alien egg discrimination: experimental evidence

    L. Polačiková;T. Grim

  • The cost of virulence: an experimental study of egg eviction by brood parasitic chicks

    Tomá Grim;Jarkko Rutila;Phillip Cassey;Mark Erno Hauber

  • Experimentally Constrained Virulence is Costly for Common Cuckoo Chicks

    Tomáš Grim;Jarkko Rutila;Phillip Cassey;Mark Erno Hauber;Mark Erno Hauber

  • Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick-borne bacterial pathogen

    Ana Cláudia Norte;Ana Cláudia Norte;Gabriele Margos;Noémie S. Becker;Jaime Albino Ramos

  • A Nanostructural Basis for Gloss of Avian Eggshells

    Branislav Igic;Daphne Fecheyr-Lippens;Ming Xiao;Andrew Chan

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark E. Hauber
Mark E. Hauber Queens College, CUNY
Phillip Cassey
Phillip Cassey University of Adelaide
Marcel Honza
Marcel Honza Czech Academy of Sciences
Anders Pape Møller
Anders Pape Møller University of Paris-Saclay
Csaba Moskát
Csaba Moskát Hungarian Natural History Museum
Piotr Tryjanowski
Piotr Tryjanowski University of Life Sciences in Poznań
Mario Díaz
Mario Díaz Spanish National Research Council
Bård G. Stokke
Bård G. Stokke Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Jukka Jokimäki
Jukka Jokimäki University of Lapland
Arne Moksnes
Arne Moksnes Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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