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Tomáš Herben

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Plant Science and Agronomy
Czechia
2025
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Ecology and Evolution
Czechia
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
53
Citations
7965
World Ranking
1843
National Ranking
14

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
53
Citations
7965
World Ranking
3356
National Ranking
18

Tomáš Herben publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tomáš Herben sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 187 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Tomáš Herben D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tomáš Herben sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Czechia Leader Award

Overview

Tomáš Herben is a researcher affiliated with Charles University in the Czech Republic. Their work primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions in various subdisciplines such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics

Tomáš Herben's scientific output includes publications across multiple prominent journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Ecology
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • New Phytologist
  • Functional Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their research. These include:

  • "Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Pladias Database of the Czech flora and vegetation," 2021, Preslia
  • "Disturbance indicator values for European plants," 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Incorporating clonality into the plant ecology research agenda," 2021, Trends in Plant Science
  • "Species abundance fluctuations over 31 years are associated with plant-soil feedback in a species-rich mountain meadow," 2020, Journal of Ecology

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Hana Skálová, Jitka Klimešová, Věroslava Hadincová, Jürgen Dengler, and František Krahulec, with collaboration counts ranging from 8 to 14 joint works.

Best Publications

  • Seed, dispersal, microsite, habitat and recruitment limitation: identification of terms and concepts in studies of limitations

    Zuzana Münzbergova;Toraias Herben;Toraias Herben

  • CLO-PLA: a database of clonal and bud-bank traits of the Central European flora.

    Jitka Klimešová;Jiří Danihelka;Jindřich Chrtek;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello

  • Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale.

    Enrique Valencia;Francesco de Bello;Thomas Galland;Peter B Adler;Peter B Adler

  • Small‐scale spatial dynamics of plant species in a grassland community over six years

    T. Herben;F. Krahulec;V. Hadincová;M. Kováf ova

  • Vegetation changes following sheep grazing in abandoned mountain meadows

    František Krahulec;Hana Skálová;Tomáš Herben;Věra Hadincová

  • Ant-induced soil modification and its effect on plant below-ground biomass

    Petr Dostál;Magdalena Březnová;Vladimíra Kozlíčková;Tomáš Herben;Tomáš Herben

  • The most species-rich plant communities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (with new world records)

    Milan Chytrý;Tomáš Dražil;Michal Hájek;Veronika Kalníková

  • Pladias Database of the Czech Flora and Vegetation

    Milan Chytrý;Jiří Danihelka;Zdeněk Kaplan;Jan Wild

  • INVASIBILITY AND SPECIES RICHNESS OF A COMMUNITY: A NEUTRAL MODEL AND A SURVEY OF PUBLISHED DATA

    Tomáš Herben;Tomáš Herben;Bohumil Mandák;Kateřina Bímová;Zuzana Münzbergová;Zuzana Münzbergová

  • Root:shoot ratio in developing seedlings: How seedlings change their allocation in response to seed mass and ambient nutrient supply.

    Tereza Mašková;Tomáš Herben

  • Community assembly by limiting similarity vs. competitive hierarchies: Testing the consequences of dispersion of individual traits

    Tomáš Herben;Tomáš Herben;Tomáš Herben;Deborah E. Goldberg

  • Decoupling phylogenetic and functional diversity to reveal hidden signals in community assembly

    Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Petr Šmilauer;Jose Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Carlos Perez Carmona

  • Handbook of standardized protocols for collecting plant modularity traits

    Jitka Klimešová;Jitka Klimešová;Jana Martínková;Juli G. Pausas;Moemy Gomes de Moraes

  • Evolution of clonal growth forms in angiosperms.

    Tomáš Herben;Tomáš Herben;Jitka Klimešová;Jitka Klimešová

  • Small-scale variability as a mechanism for large-scale stability in mountain grasslands

    T. Herben;F. Krahulec;V. Hadincová;H. Skálová

  • Clonal growth and sexual reproduction: tradeoffs and environmental constraints

    Tomáš Herben;Tomáš Herben;Božena Šerá;Božena Šerá;Jitka Klimešová

  • Herbs are different: clonal and bud bank traits can matter more than leaf-height-seed traits.

    Jitka Klimešová;Oliver Tackenberg;Tomáš Herben;Tomáš Herben

  • Geometrical constraints in the scaling relationships between genome size, cell size and cell cycle length in herbaceous plants

    Irena Šímová;Tomáš Herben;Tomáš Herben

  • Identification of suitable unoccupied habitats in metapopulation studies using co-occurrence of species

    Zuzana Münzbergová;Tomáš Herben

  • Effects of disturbance frequency and severity on plant traits: An assessment across a temperate flora

    Tomáš Herben;Tomáš Herben;Jitka Klimešová;Milan Chytrý

  • Within population genetic differentiation in traits affecting clonal growth: Festuca rubra in a mountain grassland

    H. Skálová;S. Pecháčková;J. Suzuki;J. Suzuki;T. Herben

  • Non-manipulative estimates of competition coefficients in a Montane grassland community

    Richard Law;Tomas Herben;Ulf Dieckmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Jitka Klimešová
Jitka Klimešová Czech Academy of Sciences
Zuzana Münzbergová
Zuzana Münzbergová Charles University
Jan Suda
Jan Suda Charles University
Toshihiko Hara
Toshihiko Hara Hokkaido University
Francesco de Bello
Francesco de Bello Spanish National Research Council
Jan Wild
Jan Wild Czech Academy of Sciences
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University
Deborah E. Goldberg
Deborah E. Goldberg University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jan Lepš
Jan Lepš University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Johan Ehrlén
Johan Ehrlén Stockholm University

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