Jan Lepš

Research interests

Publications

• Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony

  Ecology · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3332

• Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.05.001

• Pladias Database of the Czech flora and vegetation

  Preslia · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2021.001

• Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands

  Journal of Ecology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12735

• Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.003

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

  ASEP · 2015

• Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO 5

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139627061

• Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

  Ecology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1890/11-1394.1

• Ecological assembly rules in plant communities—approaches, patterns and prospects

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185x.2011.00187.x

• Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

  Journal of Ecology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01801.x

• Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects

  Ecography · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06904.x

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

  Journal of Animal Ecology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01728.x

• Leaf traits capture the effects of land use changes and climate on litter decomposability of grasslands across Europe

  Ecology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1890/08-0418.1

• Quantifying and interpreting functional diversity of natural communities: practical considerations matter

  HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2006

• Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data

  Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9623(2006)87[193:maoed]2.0.co;2

• Assessing the Effects of Land-use Change on Plant Traits, Communities and Ecosystem Functioning in Grasslands: A Standardized Methodology and Lessons from an Application to 11 European Sites

  Annals of Botany · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcl215

• Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511615146

• Plant species diversity, plant biomass and responses of the soil community on abandoned land across Europe: idiosyncracy or above‐belowground time lags

  Oikos · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12511.x

• Community stability, complexity and species life history strategies

  Plant Ecology · 1982 · https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00120678

Current projects

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