Jan Frouz

Research interests

Publications

• Conceptualizing soil fauna effects on labile and stabilized soil organic matter

  Nature Communications · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49240-x

• The effect of ants on soil properties and processes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

  Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik (OEGEF) · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_011:191

• The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests

  Nature Communications · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27579-9

• Barriers to ecological restoration in Europe: expert perspectives

  Restoration Ecology · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13346

• Earthworms act as biochemical reactors to convert labile plant compounds into stabilized soil microbial necromass

  Communications Biology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0684-z

• Reviews and syntheses: Carbon use efficiency from organisms to ecosystems – definitions, theories, and empirical evidence

  Biogeosciences · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5929-2018

• Effects of soil macro- and mesofauna on litter decomposition and soil organic matter stabilization

  Geoderma · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.08.039

• Soil fauna: key to new carbon models

  SOIL · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-565-2016

• Do soil fauna really hasten litter decomposition? A meta-analysis of enclosure studies

  European Journal of Soil Biology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2015.03.002

• Forest restoration following surface mining disturbance: challenges and solutions

  New Forests · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s11056-015-9506-4

• Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

  Global Change Biology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12752

• Rate-specific responses of prokaryotic diversity and structure to nitrogen deposition in the Leymus chinensis steppe

  Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.09.009

• Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1305198110

• Is the effect of trees on soil properties mediated by soil fauna? A case study from post-mining sites

  Forest Ecology and Management · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.02.013

• Soil carbon accumulation after open-cast coal and oil shale mining in Northern Hemisphere: a quantitative review

  Environmental Earth Sciences · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-012-2004-5

• Carbon storage in post-mining forest soil, the role of tree biomass and soil bioturbation

  Biogeochemistry · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-009-9313-0

• Enzyme activities and microbial biomass in topsoil layer during spontaneous succession in spoil heaps after brown coal mining

  Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.02.019

• Interactions between soil development, vegetation and soil fauna during spontaneous succession in post mining sites

  European Journal of Soil Biology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2007.09.002

• Effects of soil macrofauna on other soil biota and soil formation in reclaimed and unreclaimed post mining sites: Results of a field microcosm experiment

  Applied Soil Ecology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2005.11.001

• Soil development and properties of microbial biomass succession in reclaimed post mining sites near Sokolov (Czech Republic) and near Cottbus (Germany)

  Geoderma · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2004.12.032

• Development of soil microbial properties in topsoil layer during spontaneous succession in heaps after brown coal mining in relation to humus microstructure development

  Geoderma · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2004.12.033

• Target strength of some European fish species and its dependence on fish body parameters

  Fisheries Research · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2005.04.011

• Accumulation of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus during soil formation on alder spoil heaps after brown-coal mining, near Sokolov (Czech Republic)

  Geoderma · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2004.05.001

• Soil biota and upper soil layer development in two contrasting post-mining chronosequences

  Ecological Engineering · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0925-8574(00)00144-0

• Use of soil dwelling Diptera (Insecta, Diptera) as bioindicators: a review of ecological requirements and response to disturbance

  Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-8809(99)00036-5

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