Alena Bartušková
Research assistant
+420380720344
Alena.Bartuskova@ibot.cas.cz
I study the plant traits associated with clonality and belowground bud bank and their importance for plant strategies in plant communities. I focus closer on the lateral spread, persistence and anatomical structure of belowground storage organs, using the CLO-PLA database, as well as plants collected in natural communities. My other interest is to investigate the phenomenon of the formation of adventitious buds on plant roots as a way of clonal growth.
Expertise
Morphology of plant belowground organs, plant strategies, clonality, resprouting ability from adventitious buds on roots, plant traits
Education
University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Science
2006-2012: PhD. degree, PhD. thesis: Strategies in aboveground space occupancy in herbs from disturbed habitats.
2004-2006: master degree, diploma thesis: Reiteration and compensatory growth in short-lived root-sprouting species.
2001-2004: bachelor degree, bachelor work: Bud bank on root fragments.
Employment
since 2011: Research fellow, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of Experimental and Functional Morphology, Třeboň
2006-2008: Technician and later research fellow, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Section of plant ecology, Třeboň.
Selected publications
Bartušková A., Lubbe F. C., Jiangiang Q., Herben T., Klimešová J 2022: The effect of moisture, nutrients and disturbance on storage organ size and persistence in temperate herbs. Functional Ecology 36, 314 – 325.
Bartušková A., Filartiga A. L., Herben T., Qian J. & Klimešová J. 2021: Comparative analysis of root sprouting and its vigour in temperate herbs: anatomical correlates and environmental predictors. Annals of Botany 127, 931 – 941.
Lubbe F. C., Klimeš A., Doležal J., Jandová V., Mudrák O., Janeček Š., Bartušková A. & Klimešová J. 2021: Carbohydrate storage in herbs: the forgotten functional dimension of the plant economic spectrum. Annals of Botany 127, 813 – 825.
Chytrý M., Danihelka J., Kaplan Z., Wild J., Holubová D., Novotný P., Řezníčková M., Rohn M., Dřevojan P., Grulich V., Klimešová J., Lepš J., Lososová Z., Pergl J., Sádlo J., Šmarda P., Štěpánková P., Tichý L., Axmanová I., Bartušková A., Blažek P., Chrtek J. Jr., Fischer F. M., Guo W.-Y., Herben T., Janovský Z., Konečná M., Kühn I., Moravcová L., Petřík P., Pierce S., Prach K., Prokešová H., Štech M., Těšitel J., Těšitelová T., Večeřa M., Zelený D. & Pyšek P. (2021) Pladias Database of the Czech Flora and Vegetation. – Preslia 93: 1–87.
Klimešová J, Martínková J, Pausas JG, de Moraes MG, Herben T, Yu FH, Puntieri J, Vesk PA, de Bello F, Janeček Š, Altman J, Appezzato-da-Glória B, Bartušková A, Crivellaro A, Doležal J, Ott JP, Paula S, Schnablová R, Schweingruber FH, Ottaviani G (2019) Handbook of standardized protocols for collecting plant modularity traits. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 40: 125485
Research topics and projects
2019-2022：19-13103S Anatomical and physiological constraints as key factors governing plant vegetative regeneration from roots