2026 Tomáš Hájek: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	33	5760	5395	41	41	70	3561
Ecology and Evolution	33	7938	7683	53	51	80	3615

Overview

Tomáš Hájek is affiliated with the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice in the Czech Republic. Their research spans several interconnected fields within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing on ecological and botanical studies.

Their main fields of study include:

Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Environmental Science

Within these domains, Hájek's work is concentrated on various subfields, notably:

Ecology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Plant Science
Atmospheric Science
Nature and Landscape Conservation

The research topics they frequently address cover a range of ecological and botanical themes:

Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Bryophyte Studies and Records
Climate change and permafrost
Lichen and fungal ecology
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Hájek has published extensively on these topics in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

The Science of The Total Environment
Ecology
Scientific Reports
New Phytologist
Helda (University of Helsinki)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Hájek feature the following works:

"Habitat and species controls on Sphagnum production and decomposition in a mountain raised bog", 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
"Soil texture affects the coupling of litter decomposition and soil organic matter formation", 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
"Bryophytes can recognize their neighbours through volatile organic compounds", 2020, Scientific Reports
"Revisiting the concept of 'enzymic latch' on carbon in peatlands", 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
"Moss stomata do not respond to light and CO₂ concentration but facilitate carbon uptake by sporophytes: a gas exchange, stomatal aperture, and ¹³C-labelling study", 2021, New Phytologist

Co-authorship collaborations feature several frequent partners, including:

Pierre Liancourt
Maria Májeková
Petra Luláková
Zuzana Urbanová
Francesco de Bello

Best Publications

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition promotes carbon loss from peat bogs

Luca Bragazza;Chris Freeman;Timothy Jones;Håkan Rydin

531
Citations
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

265
Citations
Enhanced drought and heat stress tolerance of tobacco plants with ectopically enhanced cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase gene expression

Hana Macková;Marie Hronková;Jana Dobrá;Veronika Turečková

250
Citations
Nutritional constraints in ombrotrophic Sphagnum plants under increasing atmospheric nitrogen deposition in Europe

Luca Bragazza;Teemu Tahvanainen;Lado Kutnar;Håkan Rydin

231
Citations
Cell-wall polysaccharides play an important role in decay resistance of Sphagnum and actively depressed decomposition in vitro

Tomáš Hájek;Simon Ballance;Juul Limpens;Mink Zijlstra

201
Citations
Effect of Water Content Components on Desiccation and Recovery in Sphagnum Mosses

Tomáš Hájek;Richard P. Beckett

157
Citations
Soil texture affects the coupling of litter decomposition and soil organic matter formation

Gerrit Angst;Jan Pokorný;Carsten W. Mueller;Isabel Prater

134
Citations
Desiccation tolerance of Sphagnum revisited: a puzzle resolved

T Hájek;T Hájek;E Vicherová

97
Citations
Light responses of mire mosses – a key to survival after water-level drawdown?

Tomáš Hájek;Eeva-Stiina Tuittila;Mati Ilomets;Raija Laiho

86
Citations
Sphagnum growth and ecophysiology during mire succession

Anna M. Laine;Eija Juurola;Tomáš Hájek;Eeva-Stiina Tuittila

86
Citations
Photosynthesis in perennial mixotrophic Epipactis spp. (Orchidaceae) contributes more to shoot and fruit biomass than to hypogeous survival

Cédric Gonneau;Cédric Gonneau;Jana Jersáková;Eloïse de Tredern;Irène Till-Bottraud;Irène Till-Bottraud

83
Citations
Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

81
Citations
Calcium intolerance of fen mosses: Physiological evidence, effects of nutrient availability and successional drivers

Eliška Vicherová;Eliška Vicherová;Michal Hájek;Tomáš Hájek;Tomáš Hájek

74
Citations
Osmotic stress and recovery in field populations of Zygnema sp. (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta) on Svalbard (High Arctic) subjected to natural desiccation.

Martina Pichrtová;Martina Pichrtová;Tomáš Hájek;Tomáš Hájek;Josef Elster;Josef Elster

65
Citations
Lead contamination of an agricultural soil in the vicinity of a shooting range

Vladislav Chrastný;Michael Komárek;Tomáš Hájek;Tomáš Hájek

64
Citations
Biochemical determinants of litter quality in 15 species of Sphagnum

Fia Bengtsson;Håkan Rydin;Tomáš Hájek;Tomáš Hájek

63
Citations
Formation of lipid bodies and changes in fatty acid composition upon pre-akinete formation in Arctic and Antarctic Zygnema (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta) strains

Martina Pichrtová;Erwann Arc;Wolfgang Stöggl;Ilse Kranner

53
Citations
Maternal effects alter progeny ' s response to disturbance and nutrients in two Plantago species

Vít Latzel;Jitka Klimešová;Tomáš Hájek;Sara Gómez

49
Citations
Bryophytes can recognize their neighbours through volatile organic compounds

Eliška Vicherová;Eliška Vicherová;Robert Glinwood;Tomáš Hájek;Tomáš Hájek;Petr Šmilauer

47
Citations
Photosynthetic traits of Sphagnum and feather moss species in undrained, drained and rewetted boreal spruce swamp forests.

Laura Kangas;Laura Kangas;Liisa Maanavilja;Tomáš Hájek;Eija Juurola

39
Citations
Species-specific temporal variation in photosynthesis as a moderator of peatland carbon sequestration

Aino Korrensalo;Pavel Alekseychik;Tomáš Hájek;Janne Rinne

39
Citations
Vegetation and carbon gas dynamics under a changed hydrological regime in central European peatlands

Zuzana Urbanová;Tomáš Picek;Tomáš Hájek;Ivana Bufková

34
Citations