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  1. Ecological determinants of stability in dryland plant communities

    Article • New Phytologist, July 2026, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  2. Temporal dependence of community succession drives ecosystem functioning in natural phytoplankton

    Article • May 2026, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  3. Realistic species loss has little effect on local resource depletion and competitive pressure in a temperate wet meadow

    Article • Journal of Ecology, May 2026, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  4. Drought resistance drives population temporal stability of annuals in drylands

    Article • Journal of Ecology, February 2026, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  5. Reconciling links between diversity and population stability across global plant communities

    Article • New Phytologist, January 2026, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  6. Intraspecific differences in leaf decomposition and associated traits in closely related Carex species: a microcosm experiment

    Article • Oecologia, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  7. Variation of seedling recruitment in wet meadow species over 6 years: Positive effects of mowing and negative effects of fertilization

    Article • Functional Ecology, May 2025, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  8. Biodiversity loss disrupts seasonal carbon dynamics in a species‐rich temperate grassland

    Article • Ecology, May 2025, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  9. Resistance and Resilience of Species Composition: Thirty Years of Experimental Mismanagement and Subsequent Restoration in a Species Rich Meadow

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, January 2025, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  10. Half a Century of Temperate Non‐Forest Vegetation Changes: No Net Loss in Species Richness, but Considerable Shifts in Taxonomic and Functional Composition

    Article • Global Change Biology, January 2025, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  11. Closely related species differ in their traits, but competition induces high intra‐specific variability

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, September 2024, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  12. Why are plant communities stable? Disentangling the role of dominance, asynchrony and averaging effect following realistic species loss scenario

    Article • Journal of Ecology, July 2024, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  13. The convex relationship between plant cover and biomass: Implications for assessing species and community properties

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, July 2024, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  14. Biodiversity promotes resistance but dominant species shape recovery of grasslands under extreme drought

    Article • Journal of Ecology, March 2024, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  15. A unified framework for partitioning the drivers of stability of ecological communities

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, March 2024, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  16. Cumulative nitrogen enrichment alters the drivers of grassland overyielding

    Article • Communications Biology, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  17. Simple remedy for pitfalls in detecting negative density dependence

    Article • Plant Ecology, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  18. Differences in trait–environment relationships: Implications for community weighted means tests

    Article • Journal of Ecology, July 2023, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  19. Functional trait trade-offs define plant population stability across different biomes

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2023, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Jan Leps

  20. Methods of species pool determination as predictors of survival in seeding and transplanting experiments

    Article • Functional Ecology, May 2023, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  21. Community biomass is driven by dominants and their characteristics – The insight from a field biodiversity experiment with realistic species loss scenario

    Article • Journal of Ecology, November 2022, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  22. The functional structure of plant communities drives soil functioning via changes in soil abiotic properties

    Article • Ecology, September 2022, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  23. Functional traits trade-offs define plant population stability worldwide

    Article • June 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  24. Towards a better ecological understanding of metacommunity stability: A multiscale framework to disentangle population variability and synchrony effects

    Article • Journal of Ecology, May 2022, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  25. Parasitic trophic mode of plant host affects the extent of colonization, but does not induce systematic shifts in the composition of foliar endophytic assemblages in temperate meadow ecosystems

    Article • Functional Ecology, March 2022, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  26. The species richness–productivity relationship varies among regions and productivity estimates, but not with spatial resolution

    Article • Oikos, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  27. Linking insect herbivory with plant traits: Phylogenetically structured trait syndromes matter

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  28. Common spatial patterns of trees in various tropical forests: Small trees are associated with increased diversity at small spatial scales

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, May 2021, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  29. Weak coordination between leaf drought tolerance and proxy traits in herbaceous plants

    Article • Functional Ecology, May 2021, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  30. Traits as determinants of species abundance in a grassland community

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, May 2021, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  31. Anthills as habitat islands in a sea of temperate pasture

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  32. Are belowground clonal traits good predictors of ecosystem functioning in temperate grasslands?

    Article • Functional Ecology, January 2021, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  33. Towards a more balanced combination of multiple traits when computing functional differences between species

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, December 2020, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  34. Everyone makes mistakes: Sampling errors in vegetation analysis - The effect of different sampling methods, abundance estimates, experimental manipulations, and data transformation

    Article • Acta Oecologica, November 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  35. Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Jan Leps

  36. Species traits are better determinants of mobility than management in a species‐rich meadow

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, September 2020, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  37. Determinants of ecosystem stability in a diverse temperate forest

    Article • Oikos, August 2020, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  38. Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year‐to‐year asynchrony

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, July 2020, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  39. Experimental assessment of biotic and abiotic filters driving community composition

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, June 2020, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  40. In memoriam of Professor Miroslav Papáček (1953–2019): biography, memories, bibliography and list of described taxa

    Article • Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, February 2020, National Museum, Czech Republic

    Professor Jan Leps

  41. Competition among functional groups increases asynchrony of their temporal fluctuations in a temperate grassland

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, September 2019, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  42. Colonization resistance and establishment success along gradients of functional and phylogenetic diversity in experimental plant communities

    Article • Journal of Ecology, August 2019, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  43. Accounting for long‐term directional trends on year‐to‐year synchrony in species fluctuations

    Article • Ecography, July 2019, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  44. A novel method to predict dark diversity using unconstrained ordination analysis

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, May 2019, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  45. The legacy of initial sowing after 20 years of ex-arable land colonisation

    Article • Oecologia, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  46. Variation in plant functional traits is best explained by the species identity: Stability of trait‐based species ranking across meadow management regimes

    Article • Functional Ecology, February 2019, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  47. Tasty rewards for ants: differences in elaiosome and seed metabolite profiles are consistent across species and reflect taxonomic relatedness

    Article • Oecologia, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  48. GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands

    Article • Phytocoenologia, August 2018, Schweizerbart

    Professor Marko S. Sabovljevic, Péter Török, Prof. François Gillet, Dr Anna A. Kuzemko, Professor Jan Leps

  49. Impact of herbivory and competition on lake ecosystem structure: underwater experimental manipulation

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  50. Seasonality promotes grassland diversity: Interactions with mowing, fertilization and removal of dominant species

    Article • Journal of Ecology, June 2018, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  51. Interaction between habitat limitation and dispersal limitation is modulated by species life history and external conditions: a stochastic matrix model approach

    Article • Community Ecology, June 2018, Akademiai Kiado

    Pavel Fibich, Professor Jan Leps

  52. Trophic gradient is the main determinant of species and large taxonomic groups representation in phytoplankton of standing water bodies

    Article • Ecological Indicators, February 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  53. A multi-scale approach reveals random phylogenetic patterns at the edge of vascular plant life

    Article • Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, February 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  54. Stabilizing effects in temporal fluctuations: management, traits, and species richness in high-diversity communities

    Article • Ecology, December 2017, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  55. The time is ripe for general theory in community ecology

    Article • Conservation Biology, November 2017, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  56. The role of biotic interactions in plant community assembly: What is the community species pool?

    Article • Acta Oecologica, November 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  57. Environmental gradients and micro-heterogeneity shape fine-scale plant community assembly on coastal dunes

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, May 2017, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  58. Determinants of cyanobacterial species composition in the splash zone of two Croatian islands

    Article • European Journal of Phycology, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Leps

  59. Determinants of litter decomposition rates in a tropical forest: functional traits, phylogeny and ecological succession

    Article • Oikos, February 2017, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  60. Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands

    Article • Journal of Ecology, February 2017, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps, Professor vincent maire

  61. The plant functional traits that explain species occurrence across fragmented grasslands differ according to patch management, isolation, and wetness

    Article • Landscape Ecology, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  62. Re-visiting historical semi-natural grasslands in the Apennines to assess patterns of changes in species composition and functional traits

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, December 2016, Wiley

    Eleonora Giarrizzo, Professor Jan Leps

  63. Root hemiparasitic plants are associated with high diversity in temperate grasslands

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, November 2016, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  64. Disentangling the interplay of generative and vegetative propagation among different functional groups during gap colonization in meadows

    Article • Functional Ecology, September 2016, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  65. The Density Awakens: A Reply to Blonder

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  66. Linking Above- and Belowground Responses to 16 Years of Fertilization, Mowing, and Removal of the Dominant Species in a Temperate Grassland

    Article • Ecosystems, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  67. Which randomizations detect convergence and divergence in trait‐based community assembly? A test of commonly used null models

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, August 2016, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  68. Linking spatiotemporal disturbance history with tree regeneration and diversity in an old-growth forest in northern Japan

    Article • Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, August 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  69. Applying the dark diversity concept to nature conservation

    Article • Conservation Biology, June 2016, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  70. Measuring size and composition of species pools: a comparison of dark diversity estimates

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, May 2016, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  71. Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  72. Changes in the functional trait composition and diversity of meadow communities induced by Rhinanthus minor L.

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  73. Spatial patterns of tree species distribution in New Guinea primary and secondary lowland rain forest

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, March 2016, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  74. Response of two hemiparasitic Orobanchaceae species to mowing dates: implications for grassland conservation and restoration practice

    Article • Plant Ecology and Evolution, February 2016, National Botanical Garden of Belgium

    Professor Jan Leps

  75. Evaluating Functional Diversity: Missing Trait Data and the Importance of Species Abundance Structure and Data Transformation

    Article • PLOS One, February 2016, PLOS

    Dr Sarah H. Luke, Professor Jan Leps

  76. Effects of long- and short-term management on the functional structure of meadows through species turnover and intraspecific trait variability

    Article • Oecologia, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  77. Functional diversity through the mean trait dissimilarity: resolving shortcomings with existing paradigms and algorithms

    Article • Oecologia, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  78. Consistent functional response of meadow species and communities to land‐use changes across productivity and soil moisture gradients

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, January 2016, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  79. Victims of agricultural intensification: Mowing date affects Rhinanthus spp. regeneration and fruit ripening

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  80. On the need for phylogenetic ‘corrections’ in functional trait-based approaches

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  81. Linkage of plant trait space to successional age and species richness in boreal forest understorey vegetation

    Article • Journal of Ecology, August 2015, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  82. Differential response of communities of plants, snails, ants and spiders to long-term mowing in a small-scale experiment

    Article • Community Ecology, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  83. Root hemiparasites in productive communities should attack competitive host, and harm them to make regeneration gaps

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, April 2015, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  84. Different effects of elevation, habitat fragmentation and grazing management on the functional, phylogenetic and taxonomic structure of mountain grasslands

    Article • Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps, Matteo Dainese

  85. Analysis of biodiversity experiments: A comparison of traditional and linear-model-based methods

    Article • Acta Oecologica, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  86. Plant Functional Traits as Determinants of Population Stability

    Article • The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, October 2014, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  87. Integrating ecology and physiology of root‐hemiparasitic interaction: interactive effects of abiotic resources shape the interplay between parasitism and autotrophy

    Article • New Phytologist, September 2014, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps, Dr Jakub Těšitel

  88. Plant functional traits as determinants of population stability

    Article • Ecology, September 2014, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  89. Sown species richness and realized diversity can influence functioning of plant communities differently

    Article • The Science of Nature, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  90. Scale‐ and time‐dependent effects of fertilization, mowing and dominant removal on a grassland community during a 15‐year experiment

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, April 2014, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  91. Individual variability and mortality required for constant final yield in simulated plant populations

    Article • Theoretical Ecology, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  92. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO 5

    Article • January 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  93. Changes in trait divergence and convergence along a productivity gradient in wet meadows

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  94. Species richness of limestone grasslands increases with trait overlap: evidence from within‐ and between‐species functional diversity partitioning

    Article • Journal of Ecology, December 2013, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  95. Establishment of hemiparasitic Rhinanthus spp. in grassland restoration: lessons learned from sowing experiments

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, December 2013, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps, Dr Jakub Těšitel

  96. The relationship of diversity and biomass in phytoplankton communities weakens when accounting for species proportions

    Article • Hydrobiologia, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  97. Serpentine ecotypic differentiation in a polyploid plant complex: shared tolerance to Mg and Ni stress among di- and tetraploid serpentine populations of Knautia arvensis (Dipsacaceae)

    Article • Plant and Soil, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  98. Which trait dissimilarity for functional diversity: trait means or trait overlap?

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, August 2013, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  99. Evidence for scale‐ and disturbance‐dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi‐natural grasslands

    Article • Journal of Ecology, August 2013, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  100. The growth and survival of three closely related Myosotis species in a 3-year transplant experiment

    Article • Botany, April 2013, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Jan Leps

  101. Diversity and Ecosystem Function

    Article • February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  102. Are clonal traits and their response to defoliation good predictors of grazing resistance?

    Article • Botany, February 2013, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Jan Leps

  103. How does elevated grassland productivity influence populations of root hemiparasites? Commentary on Borowicz and Armstrong (Oecologia 2012)

    Article • Oecologia, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps, Dr Jakub Těšitel

  104. Growth, survival and generative reproduction in a population of a widespread annual hemiparasite Melampyrum pratense

    Article • Biologia, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps, Dr Jakub Těšitel

  105. Establishment and spatial associations of recruits in meadow gaps

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

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

    Article • Ecology, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  107. Taxonomical and functional diversity turnover in Mediterranean grasslands: interactions between grazing, habitat type and rainfall

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, August 2012, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  108. Do climate, resource availability, and grazing pressure filter floristic composition and functioning in Alpine pastures?

    Article • Community Ecology, June 2012, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Jan Leps, Matteo Dainese

  109. Communities of different plant diversity respond similarly to drought stress: experimental evidence from field non-weeded and greenhouse conditions

    Article • The Science of Nature, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  110. Plant density affects measures of biodiversity effects

    Article • Journal of Plant Ecology, April 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jan Leps

  111. Assessing species and community functional responses to environmental gradients: which multivariate methods?

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, March 2012, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  112. Plant Diversity Changes during the Postglacial in East Asia: Insights from Forest Refugia on Halla Volcano, Jeju Island

    Article • PLOS One, March 2012, PLOS

    Professor Jan Leps, Dr Petr Petřík, Martin Kopecký

  113. Different plant trait scaling in dry versus wet Central European meadows

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 2012, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  114. Positive long-term effect of mulching on species and functional trait diversity in a nutrient-poor mountain meadow in Central Europe

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, December 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  115. The effect of management on productivity, litter accumulation and seedling recruitment in a Carpathian mountain grassland

    Article • Plant Ecology, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  116. A test of the explanatory power of plant functional traits on the individual and population levels

    Article • Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  117. Do biodiversity indices behave as expected from traits of constituent species in simulated scenarios?

    Article • Ecological Modelling, July 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

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

    Article • Biological Reviews, June 2011, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  119. How do log characteristics influence the occurrence of wood fungi in a mountain spruce forest?

    Article • Fungal Ecology, June 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  120. The role of heterotrophic carbon acquisition by the hemiparasitic plant Rhinanthus alectorolophus in seedling establishment in natural communities: a physiological perspective

    Article • New Phytologist, May 2011, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps, Dr Jakub Těšitel

  121. Response of herbaceous vegetation functional diversity to land use change across five sites in Europe and Israel

    Article • Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, May 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor Jan Leps

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

    Article • Ecography, May 2011, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

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

    Article • Journal of Ecology, February 2011, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  124. Experimental assessment of dispersal and habitat limitation in an oligotrophic wet meadow

    Article • Plant Ecology, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  125. Species pool size and realized species richness affect productivity differently: A modeling study

    Article • Acta Oecologica, November 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  126. Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, October 2010, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  127. The partitioning of diversity: showing Theseus a way out of the labyrinth

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, September 2010, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  128. Modelling the Population Dynamics of Root Hemiparasitic Plants Along a Productivity Gradient

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  129. Interactions of the Hemiparasitic Species Rhinanthus minor with its Host Plant Community at Two Nutrient Levels

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

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

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, July 2010, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  131. Dynamics of Typha domingensis spread in Eleocharis dominated oligotrophic tropical wetlands following nutrient enrichment

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  132. Spatial pattern affects diversity–productivity relationships in experimental meadow communities

    Article • Acta Oecologica, May 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  133. How does surrounding vegetation affect the course of succession: A five‐year container experiment

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, July 2009, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  134. How do management and restoration needs of mountain grasslands depend on moisture regime? Experimental study from north‐western Slovakia (Western Carpathians)

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, July 2009, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  135. Relating plant species and functional diversity to community δ13C in NE Spain pastures

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, June 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  136. Effect of Light and Moisture Conditions and Seed Age on Germination of Three Closely Related Myosotis Species

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  137. Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, May 2009, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

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

    Article • Ecology, March 2009, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  139. Relative climatic, edaphic and management controls of plant functional trait signatures

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 2009, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  140. Potential contribution of natural enemies to patterns of local adaptation in plants

    Article • New Phytologist, September 2008, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  141. Changes of species richness pattern in mountain grasslands: abandonment versus restoration

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, July 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  142. Positive relationship between plant palatability and litter decomposition in meadow plants

    Article • Community Ecology, June 2008, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Jan Leps

  143. Effect of plant species richness on invasibility of experimental plant communities

    Article • Plant Ecology, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  144. Environmental correlates of growth traits of the stoloniferous plant Potentilla palustris

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  145. Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use

    Article • Journal of Ecology, December 2007, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  146. Importance of species abundance for assessment of trait composition: an example based on pollinator communities

    Article • Community Ecology, December 2007, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Jan Leps

  147. Effects of species and functional group richness on production in two fertility environments: an experiment with communities of perennial plants

    Article • Acta Oecologica, July 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  148. Subjectively sampled vegetation data: Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  149. 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

    Article • Annals of Botany, May 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jan Leps

  150. Long‐term effectiveness of sowing high and low diversity seed mixtures to enhance plant community development on ex‐arable fields

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, February 2007, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  151. Grazing effects on the species‐area relationship: Variation along a climatic gradient in NE Spain

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 2007, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  152. Grazing effects on the species-area relationship: Variation along a climatic gradient in NE Spain

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  153. Long-term effectiveness of sowing high and low diversity seed mixtures to enhance plant community development on ex-arable fields

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  154. Variations in species and functional plant diversity along climatic and grazing gradients

    Article • Ecography, December 2006, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  155. Detecting local adaptation in widespread grassland species – the importance of scale and local plant community

    Article • Journal of Ecology, September 2006, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  156. Effect of functional group richness and species richness in manipulated productivity–diversity studies: a glasshouse pot experiment

    Article • Acta Oecologica, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  157. Predictive value of plant traits to grazing along a climatic gradient in the Mediterranean

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, September 2005, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  158. Effect of litter, leaf cover and cover of basal internodes of the dominant species Molinia caerulea on seedling recruitment and established vegetation

    Article • Acta Oecologica, September 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  159. What do the biodiversity experiments tell us about consequences of plant species loss in the real world?

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, December 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  160. No tree an island: the plant–caterpillar food web of a secondary rain forest in New Guinea

    Article • Ecology Letters, September 2004, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  161. Variability in population and community biomass in a grassland community affected by environmental productivity and diversity

    Article • Oikos, September 2004, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  162. Variability of seedling recruitment under dominant, moss, and litter removal over four years

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, March 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  163. Equivalence of competitor effects and tradeoff between vegetative multiplication and generative reproduction: case study with Lychnis flos-cuculi and Myosotis nemorosa

    Article • Flora, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  164. Influence of soil heterogeneity and competition on growth features of three meadow species

    Article • Flora, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  165. Colonising aliens: caterpillars (Lepidoptera) feeding on Piper aduncum and P. umbellatum in rainforests of Papua New Guinea

    Article • Ecological Entomology, December 2003, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

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

    Article • Oikos, October 2003, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  167. Preface

    Article • May 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  168. Experimental design

    Article • May 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  169. Classification methods

    Article • May 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  170. Regression methods

    Article • May 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  171. Vocabulary

    Article • May 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  172. Plant Functional Types in relation to disturbance and land use: Introduction

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 2003, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  173. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO

    Article • January 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  174. Species and Spatial Structure of Forests on the Southeastern Slope of Paektu-san, North Korea

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  175. Plant Functional Types in relation to disturbance and land use: Introduction

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, January 2003, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  176. Article • Plant Ecology, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  177. Predictably simple: assemblages of caterpillars (Lepidoptera) feeding on rainforest trees in Papua New Guinea

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2002, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Jan Leps

  178. Successful invasion of the neotropical species Piper aduncum in rain forests in Papua New Guinea

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, February 2002, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  179. Successful invasion of the neotropical species Piper aduncum in rain forests in Papua New Guinea

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, January 2002, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  180. Procedure for separating the selection effect from other effects in diversity–productivity relationship

    Article • Ecology Letters, November 2001, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  181. Habitat and successional status of plants in relation to the communities of their leaf‐chewing herbivores in Papua New Guinea

    Article • Journal of Ecology, April 2001, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  182. Species-pool hypothesis: Limits to its testing

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, March 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  183. Separating the chance effect from other diversity effects in the functioning of plant communities

    Article • Oikos, January 2001, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  184. The Response of Arbuscular Mycorrhizae to Fertilization, Mowing, and Removal of Dominant Species in a Diverse Oligotrophic Wet Meadow

    Article • American Journal of Botany, March 2000, Botanical Society of America

    Professor Jan Leps

  185. Early succession on plots with the upper soil horizon removed

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 2000, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  186. Nutrient status, disturbance and competition: an experimental test of relationships in a wet meadow

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, April 1999, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  187. Comparative ecology of seedling recruitment in an oligotrophic wet meadow

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, April 1999, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  188. Mechanistic explanations of community structure: Introduction

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, April 1999, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  189. Article • Plant Ecology, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  190. Food Plants, Species Composition and Variability of the Moth Community in Undisturbed Forest

    Article • Oikos, April 1998, JSTOR

    Professor Jan Leps

  191. Sensitivity of seedling recruitment to moss, litter and dominant removal in an oligotrophic wet meadow

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, March 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  192. Effect of small-scale disturbance on butterfly communities of an Indochinese montane rainforest

    Article • Biological Conservation, April 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  193. Spatial dynamics of forest decline: the role of neighbouring trees

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, December 1996, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  194. Establishment ofPicea abiesseedlings in a central European mountain grassland: an experimental study

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, October 1996, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  195. Negative Associations Can Reveal Interspecific Competition and Reversal of Competitive Hierarchies during Succession

    Article • Oikos, May 1996, JSTOR

    Professor Jan Leps

  196. Regeneration of a Gentiana pneumonanthe population in an oligotrophic wet meadow

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 1996, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  197. Variance deficit is not reliable evidence for niche limitation

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, June 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  198. Use of paired plots and multivariate analysis for the determination of goat grazing preference

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 1995, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  199. Variation in Structure of Larix olgensis Stands along the Altitudinal Gradient on Paektu-san, Changbai-shan, North Korea

    Article • Arctic and Alpine Research, May 1994, JSTOR

    Professor Jan Leps

  200. Establishment success of plant immigrants in a new water reservoir

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, March 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  201. False Head Wing Pattern of the Burmese Junglequeen Butterfly and the Deception of Avian Predators

    Article • Biotropica, December 1993, JSTOR

    Professor Jan Leps

  202. Taylor's Power Law and the Measurement of Variation in the Size of Populations in Space and Time

    Article • Oikos, November 1993, JSTOR

    Professor Jan Leps

  203. Habitat Preferences, Distribution and Seasonality of the Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) in a Montane Tropical Rain Forest, Vietnam

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, January 1993, JSTOR

    Professor Jan Leps

  204. Stability of environment and of insect populations

    Article • December 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  205. How reliable are our vegetation analyses?

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 1992, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  206. Convergence or Divergence: What Should We Expect from Vegetation Succession?

    Article • Oikos, November 1991, JSTOR

    Professor Jan Leps

  207. Response of a weed community to nitrogen fertilization: a multivariate analysis

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, April 1991, Wiley

    Professor Jan Leps

  208. Synthesis

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  209. Summary

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps, Karel Prach

  210. Introduction

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps, Karel Prach

  211. Succession in Abandoned Fields

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  212. Species-area curve, life history strategies, and succession: a field test of relationships

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  213. Prediction of Changes in Ephemeropteran Communities — A Transition Matrix Approach

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  214. Dynamics of populations and communities

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  215. Species-area curve, life history strategies, and succession: a field test of relationships

    Article • October 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  216. Mathematical modelling of ecological succesion—a review

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, December 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  217. Determinants of Temporal Variation in Moth Abundance

    Article • Oikos, July 1988, JSTOR

    Professor Jan Leps

  218. Changes in the horizontal structure in a spruce forest over a 9-year period of pollutant exposure in the Krkonoše mountains, Czechoslovakia

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, December 1987, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  219. Models of the development of spatial pattern of an even-aged plant population over time

    Article • Ecological Modelling, November 1987, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  220. Vegetation dynamics in early old field succession: a quantitative approach

    Article • Vegetatio, October 1987, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  221. Why There are So Few Species of Aphids, Especially in the Tropics

    Article • The American Naturalist, April 1987, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  222. The spatial pattern of Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta)

    Article • Oecologia, December 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  223. Bimodality in single even-aged population: A simulation study

    Article • Annual Review in Automatic Programming, January 1985, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  224. What is stability? a mathematician's and ecologist's point of view

    Article • Annual Review in Automatic Programming, January 1985, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  225. Vegetation of the Rozkoš reservoir near Česká Skalice II. The formation and differentiation of communities of flooded soils (Agropyro-rumicion crispi)

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, September 1984, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  226. Increase of stability with connectance in model competition communities

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, April 1983, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Leps

  227. Community stability, complexity and species life history strategies

    Article • September 1982, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  228. A simple mathematical model of the secondary succession of shrubs

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, March 1981, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  229. Vegetation of the Rozkoŝ reservoir near Ĉeská Skalice (East Bohemia) 1. The vegetation development during the first five years after its filling

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, December 1980, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps

  230. Similarity measures

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  231. Introduction and data manipulation

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  232. Basics of gradient analysis

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  233. Constrained ordination and permutation tests

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  234. Advanced use of ordination

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  235. Visualizing multivariate data

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  236. Sample datasets and projects

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  237. Overview of available software

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  238. Classification methods

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  239. Regression methods

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  240. Advanced use of ordination

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  241. Visualising multivariate data

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  242. Experimental design

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  243. Basics of gradient analysis

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  244. Permutation tests and variation partitioning

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  245. Using the Canoco for Windows 4.5 package

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps

  246. Interpreting community composition with functional traits

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jan Leps