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  1. Natural Regeneration of Tropical Rain Forests Is the Least Successful Among All Forest Biomes

    Article • Global Change Biology, November 2025, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  2. Europe's Nature Restoration Law has now been adopted. What comes next?

    Article • Oikos, March 2025, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  3. Succession in abandoned fields: Chronosequence data verified by monitoring of semi‐permanent plots

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, September 2024, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  4. Successional pathways and trophic specialisation of different groups of organisms in formerly extracted raised bogs – Restoration and conservation perspectives

    Article • Biological Conservation, August 2024, Elsevier

    Karel Prach

  5. Global drivers influencing vegetation during succession: Factors and implications

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, July 2024, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  6. Community specialisation in vegetation succession on central‐European disturbed sites

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, July 2023, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  7. Large‐scale restoration of species‐rich dry grasslands on arable land: Environmental filtering drives successful species establishment over a period of 10 years

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, June 2023, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  8. Tertiary succession—do we really need the new term? Response to Rapson (2023)

    Article • Restoration Ecology, March 2023, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  9. A comment on “International principles and standards for the ecological restoration and recovery of mine sites”—useful but limited

    Article • Restoration Ecology, February 2023, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  10. Importance of repeated sampling: vegetation analyses after 10 years revealed different restoration trends in formerly extracted peatlands

    Article • Restoration Ecology, June 2022, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  11. Biodiversity restoration of formerly extracted raised bogs: vegetation succession and recovery of other trophic groups

    Article • Wetlands Ecology and Management, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Karel Prach

  12. Alien species in vegetation succession: participation, temporal trends and determining factors in various central European series

    Article • Biological Invasions, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Karel Prach

  13. Two centuries of forest succession, and 30 years of vegetation changes in permanent plots in an inland sand dune area, The Netherlands

    Article • PLOS One, April 2021, PLOS

    Karel Prach

  14. Spontaneous succession on road verges—An effective approach with minimum effort

    Article • Land Degradation and Development, April 2021, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  15. Hierarchy of environmental factors driving restoration of dry grasslands: A multi‐site analysis

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, April 2021, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  16. Which landscape and abiotic site factors influence vegetation succession across seres at a country scale?

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, October 2020, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  17. Ability of plant species to colonise human‐disturbed habitats: Role of phylogeny and functional traits

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, September 2020, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  18. Topsoil removal in degraded open sandy grasslands: can we restore threatened vegetation fast?

    Article • Restoration Ecology, September 2020, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  19. What is a reasonable plot size for sampling aquatic vegetation?

    Article • Aquatic Sciences, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Karel Prach

  20. Threatened vascular plant species in spontaneously revegetated post‐mining sites

    Article • Restoration Ecology, April 2020, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  21. Vegetation development of forestry reclaimed sand and sand‐gravel pits: is it on a way towards more natural species composition?

    Article • Restoration Ecology, April 2020, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  22. Enhancing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Quarry Restoration – Challenges, Strategies and Practice

    Article • Restoration Ecology, March 2020, Wiley

    Cristina Branquinho, Karel Prach

  23. A primer on choosing goals and indicators to evaluate ecological restoration success

    Article • Restoration Ecology, August 2019, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  24. Possibilities and limitations of passive restoration of heavily disturbed sites

    Article • Landscape Research, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Karel Prach

  25. Spontaneous and assisted restoration of vegetation on the bottom of a former water reservoir, the Elwha River, Olympic National Park, WA, U.S.A.

    Article • Restoration Ecology, January 2019, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  26. Differences between primary and secondary plant succession among biomes of the world

    Article • Journal of Ecology, October 2018, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  27. Mass effects, clonality, and phenology but not seed traits predict species success in colonizing restored grasslands

    Article • Restoration Ecology, September 2017, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  28. Succession does run towards climax

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 2016, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  29. Passive restoration is often quite effective: response to Zahawi et al. (2014)

    Article • Restoration Ecology, May 2015, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  30. Do not neglect surroundings in restoration of disturbed sites

    Article • Restoration Ecology, March 2015, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  31. Landscape context in colonization of restored dry grasslands by target species

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, October 2014, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  32. Spontaneous colonization of restored dry grasslands by target species: restoration proceeds beyond sowing regional seed mixtures

    Article • Grass and Forage Science, October 2014, Wiley

    Karel Prach

  33. Vegetation succession in restoration of disturbed sites in Central Europe: the direction of succession and species richness across 19 seres

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, October 2013, Wiley

    Dr Petr Petřík, Karel Prach

  34. Summary

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps, Karel Prach

  35. Introduction

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Leps, Karel Prach