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Tomáš Vrška is affiliated with Mendel University Brno in the Czech Republic. Their research focuses primarily on forest ecology, biodiversity, and related fields within agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Their main fields of study encompass:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Subfields of interest include:

  • Insect Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Environmental Engineering

Tomáš Vrška has contributed to publications in various scientific journals. Frequent venues for their publications are:

  • Scientific Data
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Journal of Fungi
  • Fungal Ecology
  • Forest Policy and Economics

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Tomáš Vrška are:

  • Protection gaps and restoration opportunities for primary forests in Europe (2020) in Diversity and Distributions
  • European primary forest database v2.0 (2021) in Scientific Data
  • Successional Development of Fungal Communities Associated with Decomposing Deadwood in a Natural Mixed Temperate Forest (2021) in Journal of Fungi
  • Successional development of wood-inhabiting fungi associated with dominant tree species in a natural temperate floodplain forest (2021) in Fungal Ecology
  • Motivations behind the forest managers' decision making about mixed forests in the Czech Republic (2022) in Forest Policy and Economics

They frequently collaborate with several co-authors, including:

  • Francesco María Sabatini
  • Sabina Burrascano
  • Inês Duarte
  • Matteo Garbarino
  • Nikolaos Grigoriadis

Best Publications

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Dead wood in European beech (Fagus sylvatica) forest reserves

    Morten Christensen;Katrine Hahn;Edward P. Mountford;Péter Ódor

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Where are Europe's last primary forests?

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Sabina Burrascano;William S. Keeton;Christian Levers

  • Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale.

    Joseph A. LaManna;Scott A. Mangan;Alfonso Alonso;Norman A. Bourg;Norman A. Bourg

  • 3D Forest: An application for descriptions of three-dimensional forest structures using terrestrial LiDAR.

    Jan Trochta;Martin Krůček;Tomáš Vrška;Kamil Král

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) rotation in the Carpathians―A developmental cycle or a linear trend induced by man?

    Tomáš Vrška;Dušan Adam;Libor Hort;Tomáš Kolář

  • New Opportunities for Forest Remote Sensing Through Ultra-High-Density Drone Lidar

    James R. Kellner;John Armston;Markus Birrer;K. C. Cushman

  • Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees

    Chengjin Chu;James A. Lutz;Kamil Král;Tomáš Vrška

  • Comparing close-to-naturesilviculture with processes in pristine forests: lessons from Central Europe

    Jean-Philippe Schütz;Milan Saniga;Jurij Diaci;Tomas Vrška

  • Local variability of stand structural features in beech dominated natural forests of Central Europe: Implications for sampling

    Kamil Král;David Janík;Tomáš Vrška;Dušan Adam

  • Developmental phases in a temperate natural spruce-fir-beech forest: determination by a supervised classification method

    Kamil Král;Tomáš Vrška;Libor Hort;Dušan Adam

  • Patch mosaic of developmental stages in central European natural forests along vegetation gradient

    Kamil Král;Sean M. McMahon;David Janík;Dušan Adam

  • Protection gaps and restoration opportunities for primary forests in Europe

    Francesco M. Sabatini;Francesco M. Sabatini;William S. Keeton;Marcus Lindner;Miroslav Svoboda

  • Soil variability through spatial scales in a permanently disturbed natural spruce-fir-beech forest

    Pavel Šamonil;Martin Valtera;Stanislav Bek;Barbora Šebková

  • European primary forest database v2.0.

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Hendrik Bluhm;Zoltan Kun;Dmitry Aksenov

  • Tree spatial patterns of Fagus sylvatica expansion over 37 years

    David Janík;Kamil Král;Dusan Adam;Libor Hort

  • Spatial and volume patterns of an unmanaged submontane mixed forest in Central Europe: 160 years of spontaneous dynamics

    Barbora Šebková;Pavel Šamonil;David Janík;Dušan Adam

  • Natural gap dynamics in a Central European mixed beech—spruce—fir old-growth forest

    Kata Kenderes;Kamil Král;Tomáš Vrška;Tibor Standovár

  • Spatial variability of general stand characteristics in central European beech-dominated natural stands – Effects of scale

    Kamil Král;Martin Valtera;David Janík;Pavel Šamonil

  • Trends and cyclical changes in natural fir-beech Forests at the north-western edge of the Carpathians

    Pavel Šamonil;Tomáš Vrška

Frequent Co-Authors

Kamil Král
Kamil Král Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening
Pavel Šamonil
Pavel Šamonil Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Fangliang He
Fangliang He University of Alberta
Sean M. McMahon
Sean M. McMahon Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
William J. McShea
William J. McShea Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Geoffrey G. Parker
Geoffrey G. Parker Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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