Jitka Klimešová
Senior researcher, head of department
+420380720363
jitka.klimesova@ibot.cas.cz
My main interest is functional morphology of plants, especially their belowground organs like roots, rhizomes, tubers or bulbs. With colleagues we are expanding database of clonal and bud bank traits for flora of Central Europe to other biomes or continents; we are testing functionality of morphological traits in experiments and doing correlative studies and evolutionary analyses of different plant traits and environmental parameters; we study how belowground plant traits affect ecosystem functions.
Expertise:
Plant functional morphology, plant population ecology
Education:
1989-1993 PhD, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
Employment:
From 1989 researcher at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboň, Czech Republic
2010-2014 researcher, Centre for Polar Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Since 2018 researcher at Department of Botany, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic
Selected publications:
Klimešová J, Ottaviani G, Charles-Dominique T, Campetella G, Canullo R, Chelli S, Janovský Z, Lubbe FC, Martínková J, Herben T. 2022. Incorporating clonality into the plant ecology research agenda. Trends in Plant Science 26, 1236-1247.
Klimešová J. 2018. Temperate herbs: an architectural analysis. Academia pp. 1-276.