Members of the departments are often involved in prestigious scientific periodicals, including interdisciplinary ones such as Science or Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) and important journals in ecological and evolutionary research: Trends in Ecology & Evolution (TREE), Ecology, Ecology Letters, Global Change Biology, Journal of Biogeography, American Naturalist, Molecular Ecology, and others.

In the recent years, an increase in number and proportion of papers published in such journals is apparent.

Selected publications in journals with high impact factor

The selection below includes papers in journal with the impact factor value over 4.5, to which members of our department (highlighted in bold) contributed. In the present year, the list is ordered chronologically, in previous years alphabetically by the first author. For more complete list of papers, click here.

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2012

Storch D., Keil P., Jetz W. (2012): Universal species-area and endemics-area relationships at continental scales. Nature 488 (7409):78 DOI: 10.1038/nature11226

Keil P., Schweiger O., Kuhn I., Kunin W.E., Kuussaari M., Settele J., Henle K., Brotons L., Pe'er G., Lengyel S., Moustakas A., Steinicke H., Storch D. (2012): Patterns of beta diversity in Europe: the role of climate, land cover and distance across scales. Journal Of Biogeography 39 (8):1473-1486. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02701.x

Catford J.A., Vesk P.A., Richardson D.M., Pyšek P. (2012): Quantifying levels of biological invasion: towards the objective classification of invaded and invasible ecosystems. Global Change Biology 18(1): 44-62. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02549.x

Chytrý M., Wild J., Pyšek P., Jarošík V., Dendoncker N., Reginster I., Pino J., Maskell L.C., Vila M., Pergl J., Kuhn I., Spangenberg J.H., Settele J. (2012): Projecting trends in plant invasions in Europe under different scenarios of future land-use change. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21 (1): 75-87.  DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00573.x

2011

Blackburn T.M., Pyšek P., Bacher S., Carlton J.T., Duncan R.P., Jarošík V., Wilson J.R.U., Richardson D.M. (2011): A proposed unified framework for biological invasions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26: 333-339. DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2011.03.023

Essl F., Dullinger S., Rabitsch W., Hulme P.E., Hulber K., Jarošík V., Kleinbauer I., Krausmann F., Kuhn I., Nentwig W., Vila M., Genovesi P., Gherardi F., Desprez-Loustau M.L., Roques A., Pyšek P. (2011): Socioeconomic legacy yields an invasion debt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108: 203-207. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011728108

Foxcroft L.C., Jarošík V., Pyšek P., Richardson D.M., Rouget M. (2011): Protected-area boundaries as filters of plant invasions. Conservation Biology 25: 400-405. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01617.x

Machac A., Zrzavý J., Storch D. (2011): Range size heritability in Carnivora is driven by geographic constraints. American Naturalist 177: 767-779. DOI: 10.1086/659952

Pautasso M., Bohning-Gaese K., Clergeau P., Cueto V.R., Dinetti M., Fernandez-Juricic E., Kaisanlahti-Jokimaki M.L., Jokimaki J., McKinney M.L., Sodhi N.S., Storch D., Tomialojc L., Weisberg P.J., Woinarski J., Fuller R.A., Cantarello E. (2011): Global macroecology of bird assemblages in urbanized and semi-natural ecosystems. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 426-436. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00616.x

Pyšek P., Jarošík V., Chytrý M., Danihelka J., Kuhn I., Pergl J., Tichý L., Biesmeijer J.C., Ellis W.N., Kunin W.E., Settele J. (2011): Successful invaders co-opt pollinators of native flora and accumulate insect pollinators with increasing residence time. Ecological Monographs 81: 277-293. DOI: 10.1890/10-0630.1

Pyšek P., Jarošík V., Pergl J., Wild J. (2011): Colonization of high altitudes by alien plants over the last two centuries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108: 439-440. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1017682108

Simberloff D., Genovesi P., Pyšek P., Campbell K. (2011): Recognizing conservation success. Science 332: 419-419

Skálová H., Moravcová L., Pyšek P. (2011): Germination dynamics and seedling frost resistance of invasive and native Impatiens species reflect local climatic conditions. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics 13: 173-180. DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2011.03.005

Šímová I., Storch D., Keil P., Boyle B., Phillips O.L., Enquist B.J. (2011): Global species-energy relationship in forest plots: role of abundance, temperature and species climatic tolerances. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 842-856. DOI:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00650.x

Šizling A.L., Kunin W.E., Šizlingová E., Reif J., Storch D. (2011): Between geometry and biology: the problem of universality of the species-area relationship. American Naturalist 178: 602-611. DOI: 10.1086/662176

Vila M., Espinar J.L., Hejda M., Hulme P.E., Jarošík V., Maron J.L., Pergl J., Schaffner U., Sun Y., Pyšek P. (2011): Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems. Ecology Letters 14: 702-708. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01628.x

Machac A., Zrzavý J., Storch D. (2011): Range size heritability in carnivora is driven by geographic constraints. American Naturalist 177 (6): 767-779. DOI 10.1086/659952

Simberloff D., Genovesi P., Pyšek P., Campbell K. (2011): Recognizing conservation success. Science 332 (6028): 419-419. DOI 10.1126/science.332.6028.419-a

Pautasso M., Bohning-Gaese K., Clergeau P., Cueto V.R., Dinetti M., Fernandez-Juricic E., Kaisanlahti-Jokimaki M.L., Jokimaki J., McKinney M.L., Sodhi N.S., Storch D., Tomialojc L., Weisberg P.J., Woinarski J., Fuller R.A., Cantarello E. (2011): Global macroecology of bird assemblages in urbanized and semi-natural ecosystems. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 426-436. DOI 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00616.x

Pyšek P., Jarošík V., Pergl J, Wild J. (2011): Colonization of high altitudes by alien plants over the last two centuries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108: 439-440. DOI 10.1073/pnas.1017682108

Essl F., Dullinger S., Rabitsch W., Hulme P.E., Hülber K., Jarošík V., Kleinbauer I., Krausmann F., Kühn I., Nentwig W., Vilà M., Genovesi P., Gherardi F., Desprez-Lousteau M.-L., Roques A., Pyšek P. (2011) Socioeconomic legacy yields an invasion debt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108: 203-207. DOI 10.1073/pnas.1011728108

2010

Schweiger O., Biesmeijer J.C., Bommarco R., Hickler T., Hulme P.E., Klotz S., Kuhn I., Moora M., Nielsen A., Ohlemuller R., Petanidou T., Potts S.G., Pyšek P., Stout J.C., Sykes M.T., Tscheulin T., Vilá M., Walther G.R., Westphal C., Winter M., Zobel M., Settele J. (2010): Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: how climate change and alien species interact to affect pollination. Biological Reviews 85: 777-795. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00125.x

Pyšek P., Jarošík V., Hulme P.E., Kuhn I., Wild J., Arianoutsou M., Bacher S., Chiron F., Didziulis V., Essl F., Genovesi P., Gherardi F., Hejda M., Kark S., Lambdon P.W., Desprez-Loustau M.L., Nentwig W., Pergl J., Poboljsaj K., Rabitsch W., Roques A., Roy D.B., Shirley S., Solarz W., Vilá M., Winter M. (2010): Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107(27): 12157-12162. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002314107

Pyšek P., Bacher S., Chytrý M., Jarošík V., Wild J., Celesti-Grapow L., Gassó N., Kenis M., Lambdon P.W., Nentwig W., Pergl J., Roques A., Sádlo J., Solarz W., Vilà M., Hulme P.E. (2010): Contrasting patterns in the invasions of European terrestrial and freshwater habitats by alien plants, insects and vertebrates. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19: 317-331. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00514.x

Vilà M., Basnou C., Pyšek P., Josefsson M., Genovesi P., Gollasch S., Nentwig W., Olenin S., Roques A., Roy D., Hulme P.E., and DAISIE partners (2010): How well do we understand the impacts of alien species on ecosystem services? A pan-European, cross-taxa assessment. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8: 135-144. DOI: 10.1890/080083

Tropek R., Kadlec T., Karešová P., Spitzer L., Kočárek P., Malenovský I., Banar P., Tuf I. H., Hejda M., Konvička M. (2010): Spontaneous succession in limestone quarries as an effective restoration tool for endangered arthropods and plants. Journal of Applied Ecology 47: 139-148. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01746.x

2009

Blumenthal D., Mitchell C.E., Pyšek P., Jarošík V. (2009): Synergy between pathogen release and resource availability in plant invasion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 7899-7904. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812607106

Harte J., Smith A.B., Storch D. (2009): Biodiversity scales from plots to biomes with a universal species-area curve. Ecology Letters 12: 789-797. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01328.x

Hejda M., Pyšek P., Jarošík V. (2009): Impact of invasive plants on the species richness, diversity and composition of invaded communities. Journal of Ecology 97: 393-403. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01480.x

Hejda M., Pyšek P., Pergl J., Sádlo J., Chytrý M., Jarošík V. (2009): Invasion success of alien plants: do habitat affinities in the native distribution range matter? Global Ecology and Biogeography 18: 372-382. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00445.x

Henry P., Le Lay G., Goudet J., Guisan A., Jahodová Š., Besnard G. (2009): Reduced genetic diversity, increased isolation and multiple introductions of invasive giant hogweed in the western Swiss Alps. Molecular Ecology 18: 2819-2831. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04237.x

Hulme P.E., Pyšek P., Nentwig W., Vila M. (2009): Will Threat of Biological Invasions Unite the European Union? Science 324: 40-41. DOI: 10.1126/science.1171111

Kozubíková E., Filipová L., Kozák P., Ďuriš Z., Martín M.P., Diéguez-Uribeondo J., Oidtmann B., Petrusek A. (2009): Prevalence of the crayfish plague pathogen Aphanomyces astaci in invasive American crayfishes in the Czech Republic. Conservation Biology 23: 1204-1213. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01240.x

La Sorte F.A., Pyšek P. (2009): Extra-regional residence time as a correlate of plant invasiveness: European archaeophytes in North America. Ecology 90: 2589-2597

Morlon H., White E.P., Etienne R.S., Green J.L., Ostling A., Alonso D., Enquist B.J., He F.L., Hurlbert A., Magurran A.E., Maurer B.A., McGill B.J., Olff H., Storch D., Zillio T. (2009): Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals. Ecology Letters 12: 488-501. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01318.x

Petrusek A., Tollrian R., Schwenk K., Haas A., Laforsch C. (2009): A "crown of thorns'' is an inducible defense that protects Daphnia against an ancient predator. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 2248-2252. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808075106

Pyšek P., Křivánek M., Jarošík V. (2009): Planting intensity, residence time, and species traits determine invasion success of alien woody species. Ecology 90: 2734-2744

Starostová Z., Kubička L., Konarzewski M., Kozlowski J., Kratochvíl L. (2009): Cell size but not genome size affects scaling of metabolic rate in eyelid geckos. American Naturalist 174: E100-E105. DOI: 10.1086/603610

Šizling A.L., Storch D., Keil P. (2009): Rapoport's rule, species tolerances, and the latitudinal diversity gradient: geometric considerations. Ecology 90: 3575-3586

Šizling A.L., Storch D., Šizlingová E., Reif J., Gaston K.J. (2009): Species abundance distribution results from a spatial analogy of central limit theorem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 6691-6695. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810096106

Šizling A.L., Šizlingová E., Storch D., Reif J., Gaston K.J. (2009): Rarity, commonness, and the contribution of individual species to species richness patterns. American Naturalist 174: 82-93. DOI: 10.1086/599305

Thielsch A., Brede N., Petrusek A., De Meester L., Schwenk K. (2009): Contribution of cyclic parthenogenesis and colonization history to population structure in Daphnia. Molecular Ecology 18: 1616-1628. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04130.x

Walther G.R., Roques A., Hulme P.E., Sykes M.T., Pyšek P., Kuhn I., Zobel M., Bacher S., Botta-Dukat Z., Bugmann H., Czucz B., Dauber J., Hickler T., Jarošík V., Kenis M., Klotz S., Minchin D., Moora M., Nentwig W., Ott J., Panov V.E., Reineking B., Robinet C., Semenchenko V., Solarz W., Thuiller W., Vila M., Vohland K., Settele J. (2009): Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24: 686-693. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2009.06.008

Winter M., Schweiger O., Klotz S., Nentwig W., Andriopoulos P., Arianoutsou M., Basnou C., Delipetrou P., Didziulis V., Hejda M., Hulme P.E., Lambdon P.W., Pergl J., Pyšek P., Roy D.B., Kuhn I. (2009): Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 21721-21725. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907088106

2008

Evans K.L., Newson S.E., Storch D., Greenwood J.J.D., Gaston K.J. (2008): Spatial scale, abundance and the species-energy relationship in British birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 395-405. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01332.x

Hulme P.E., Bacher S., Kenis M., Klotz S., Kuhn I., Minchin D., Nentwig W., Olenin S., Panov V., Pergl J., Pyšek P., Roques A., Sol D., Solarz W., Vila M. (2008): Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy. Journal of Applied Ecology 45: 403-414. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01442.x

Chytrý M., Jarošík V., Pyšek P., Hájek O., Knollová I., Tichý L., Danihelka J. (2008): Separating habitat invasibility by alien plants from the actual level of invasion. Ecology 89: 1541-1553

Chytrý M., Maskell L.C., Pino J., Pyšek P., Vilá M., Font X., Smart S.M. (2008): Habitat invasions by alien plants: a quantitative comparison among Mediterranean, subcontinental and oceanic regions of Europe. Journal of Applied Ecology 45: 448-458. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01398.x

La Sorte F.A., McKinney M.L., Pyšek P., Klotz S., Rapson G.L., Celesti-Grapow L., Thompson K. (2008): Distance decay of similarity among European urban floras: the impact of anthropogenic activities on beta diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 363-371. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00369.x

Mergeay J., Aguilera X., Declerck S., Petrusek A., Huyse T., De Meester L. (2008): The genetic legacy of polyploid Bolivian Daphnia: the tropical Andes as a source for the North and South American D. pulicaria complex. Molecular Ecology 17: 1789-1800. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03679.x

Petrusek A., Seďa J., Macháček J., Ruthová S., Šmilauer P. (2008): Daphnia hybridization along ecological gradients in pelagic environments: the potential for the presence of hybrid zones in plankton. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 363: 2931-2941. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0026

Pyšek P., Richardson D.M., Pergl J., Jarošík V., Sixtová Z., Weber E. (2008): Geographical and taxonomic biases in invasion ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23: 237-244. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.02.002

Storch D., Šizling A.L., Reif J., Polechová J., Šizlingová E., Gaston K.J. (2008): The quest for a null model for macroecological patterns: geometry of species distributions at multiple spatial scales. Ecology Letters 11: 771-784. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01206.x

2007

Davies R.G., Orme C.D.L., Storch D., Olson V.A., Thomas G.H., Ross S.G., Ding T.S., Rasmussen P.C., Bennett P.M., Owens I.P.F., Blackburn T.M., Gaston K.J. (2007): Topography, energy and the global distribution of bird species richness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 274: 1189-1197. DOI: 10.1098//rspb.2006.0061

Kratochvíl L., Kubička L. (2007): Why reduce clutch size to one or two eggs? Reproductive allometries reveal different evolutionary causes of invariant clutch size in lizards. Functional Ecology 21: 171-177. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2006.01202.x

La Sorte F.A., McKinney M.L., Pyšek P. (2007): Compositional similarity among urban floras within and across continents: biogeographical consequences of human-mediated biotic interchange. Global Change Biology 13: 913-921. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01329.x

2006

Albrecht T., Kreisinger J., Piálek J. (2006): The strength of direct selection against female promiscuity is associated with rates of extrapair fertilizations in socially monogamous songbirds. American Naturalist 167: 739-744. DOI: 10.1086/502633

Kratochvíl L. (2006): Captive breeding and a threatened gecko. Science 313: 915-915. DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5789.915b

Křivánek M., Pyšek P., Jarošík V. (2006): Planting history and propagule pressure as predictors of invasion by woody species in a temperate region. Conservation Biology 20: 1487-1498. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00477

Pyšek P., Richardson D.M. (2006): The biogeography of naturalization in alien plants. Journal of Biogeography 33: 2040-2050. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01578.x

Reif J., Hořák D., Sedláček O., Riegert J., Pesata M., Hrazský Z., Janeček S., Storch D. (2006): Unusual abundance-range size relationship in an Afromontane bird community: the effect of geographical isolation? Journal of Biogeography 33: 1959-1968. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01547.x

Storch D., Davies R.G., Zajicek S., Orme C.D.L., Olson V., Thomas G.H., Ding T.S., Rasmussen P.C., Ridgely R.S., Bennett P.M., Blackburn T.M., Owens I.P.F., Gaston K.J. (2006): Energy, range dynamics and global species richness patterns: reconciling mid-domain effects and environmental determinants of avian diversity. Ecology Letters 9: 1308-1320. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00984.x

2005

Müllerová J., Pyšek P., Jarošík V., Pergl J. (2005): Aerial photographs as a tool for assessing the regional dynamics of the invasive plant species Heracleum mantegazzianum. Journal of Applied Ecology 42: 1042-1053. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01092.x

Pyšek P., Jarošík V., Chytrý M., Kropáč Z., Tichý L., Wild J. (2005): Alien plants in temperate weed communities: Prehistoric and recent invaders occupy different habitats. Ecology 86: 772-785

Storch D., Evans K.L., Gaston K.J. (2005): The species-area-energy relationship. Ecology Letters 8: 487-492. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00740.x

Thuiller W., Richardson D.M., Pyšek P., Midgley G.F., Hughes G.O., Rouget M. (2005): Niche-based modelling as a tool for predicting the risk of alien plant invasions at a global scale. Global Change Biology 11: 2234-2250. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.01018.x