2026 Tomáš Herben: 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	53	1843	1691	14	14	187	7965
Ecology and Evolution	53	3361	3232	18	16	189	7965

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

262
Citations
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

259
Citations
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

237
Citations
Small‐scale spatial dynamics of plant species in a grassland community over six years

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

191
Citations
Vegetation changes following sheep grazing in abandoned mountain meadows

František Krahulec;Hana Skálová;Tomáš Herben;Věra Hadincová

188
Citations
Ant-induced soil modification and its effect on plant below-ground biomass

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

179
Citations
The most species-rich plant communities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (with new world records)

Milan Chytrý;Tomáš Dražil;Michal Hájek;Veronika Kalníková

172
Citations
Pladias Database of the Czech Flora and Vegetation

Milan Chytrý;Jiří Danihelka;Zdeněk Kaplan;Jan Wild

167
Citations
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

162
Citations
Root:shoot ratio in developing seedlings: How seedlings change their allocation in response to seed mass and ambient nutrient supply.

Tereza Mašková;Tomáš Herben

157
Citations
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

143
Citations
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

134
Citations
Handbook of standardized protocols for collecting plant modularity traits

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

134
Citations
Evolution of clonal growth forms in angiosperms.

Tomáš Herben;Tomáš Herben;Jitka Klimešová;Jitka Klimešová

132
Citations
Small-scale variability as a mechanism for large-scale stability in mountain grasslands

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

128
Citations
Clonal growth and sexual reproduction: tradeoffs and environmental constraints

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

123
Citations
Herbs are different: clonal and bud bank traits can matter more than leaf-height-seed traits.

Jitka Klimešová;Oliver Tackenberg;Tomáš Herben;Tomáš Herben

120
Citations
Geometrical constraints in the scaling relationships between genome size, cell size and cell cycle length in herbaceous plants

Irena Šímová;Tomáš Herben;Tomáš Herben

118
Citations
Identification of suitable unoccupied habitats in metapopulation studies using co-occurrence of species

Zuzana Münzbergová;Tomáš Herben

112
Citations
Effects of disturbance frequency and severity on plant traits: An assessment across a temperate flora

Tomáš Herben;Tomáš Herben;Jitka Klimešová;Milan Chytrý

109
Citations
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

96
Citations
Non-manipulative estimates of competition coefficients in a Montane grassland community

Richard Law;Tomas Herben;Ulf Dieckmann

96
Citations