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Ecology and Evolution
Czechia
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
63
Citations
17629
World Ranking
1946
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Vojtech Novotny is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic, focusing primarily on environmental and biological sciences. Their research spans several main fields of study including Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with particular emphasis on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Plant Science, and Ecological Modeling.

Their scholarly output addresses key topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Novotny include Kateřina Sam, Leonardo Ré Jorge, George D. Weiblen, Simon T. Segar, and Martin Volf. These partnerships reflect an active engagement with researchers who contribute to various subfields related to ecology and biology.

Novotny has published extensively in several notable scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include Biotropica, Case Studies in the Environment, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Ecology and Evolution, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). These venues highlight a focus on ecological studies and environmental science.

Some of Novotny's recent papers include:

  • The Role of Evolution in Shaping Ecological Networks, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Insect herbivory and herbivores of Ficus species along a rain forest elevational gradient in Papua New Guinea, 2020, Biotropica
  • Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world's most linguistically diverse nation, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Novotny was recognized with the award of Member of Academia Europaea in 2018, which acknowledges contributions to academic science across Europe.

Best Publications

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Low host specificity of herbivorous insects in a tropical forest

    Vojtech Novotny;Yves Basset;Scott E. Miller;George D. Weiblen

  • Why Are There So Many Species of Herbivorous Insects in Tropical Rainforests

    Vojtech Novotny;Pavel Drozd;Scott E. Miller;Miroslav Kulfan

  • Arthropod diversity in a tropical forest

    Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Lukas Cizek;Lukas Cizek;Philippe Cuenoud;Raphael K. Didham

  • 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

  • The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

    Matthew L. Forister;Vojtech Novotny;Vojtech Novotny;Anna K. Panorska;Leontine Baje

  • Rare species in communities of tropical insect herbivores: pondering the mystery of singletons

    Vojtech Novotný;Yves Basset

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

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

  • Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations

    Tomas Roslin;Tomas Roslin;Bess Hardwick;Vojtech Novotny;Vojtech Novotny;William K. Petry;William K. Petry

  • Host specificity of insect herbivores in tropical forests.

    Vojtech Novotny;Yves Basset

  • Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant–herbivore food webs from a tropical forest

    Vojtech Novotny;Scott E. Miller;Leontine Baje;Solomon Balagawi

  • Insects on Plants: Diversity of Herbivore Assemblages Revisited

    Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Vojtech Novotny;Yves Basset

  • Low beta diversity of herbivorous insects in tropical forests.

    Vojtech Novotny;Scott E. Miller;Jiri Hulcr;Jiri Hulcr;Richard Arthur Ian Drew

  • Quantifying uncertainty in estimation of tropical arthropod species richness.

    Andrew J. Hamilton;Yves Basset;Kurt K. Benke;Peter S. Grimbacher

  • 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

  • Forests and Their Canopies: Achievements and Horizons in Canopy Science.

    Akihiro Nakamura;Roger L. Kitching;Min Cao;Thomas J. Creedy;Thomas J. Creedy

  • Plant diversity controls arthropod biomass and temporal stability

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;David Tilman

  • Phylogenetic dispersion of host use in a tropical insect herbivore community

    George D. Weiblen;Campbell O. Webb;Vojtech Novotny;Yves Basset

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

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

  • Vertical stratification of arthropod assemblages.

    Y. Basset;P. M. Hammond;H. Barrios;J. D. Holloway

  • Supporting Online Material for Why Are There So Many Species of Herbivorous Insects in Tropical Rainforests

    Vojtech Novotny;Pavel Drozd;Scott E. Miller;Miroslav Kulfan

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves Basset
Yves Basset Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Scott E. Miller
Scott E. Miller National Museum of Natural History
George D. Weiblen
George D. Weiblen University of Minnesota
Roger L. Kitching
Roger L. Kitching Griffith University
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Lukas Cizek
Lukas Cizek Sewanee: The University of the South
Tomas Roslin
Tomas Roslin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Owen T. Lewis
Owen T. Lewis University of Oxford
Jérôme Orivel
Jérôme Orivel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thomas M. Lewinsohn
Thomas M. Lewinsohn State University of Campinas

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