Department of Population Ecology - The Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Dostálek Tomáš

Researcher
+420271015708
tomas.dostalek@ibot.cas.cz

As a plant ecologist, I focus primarily on the population dynamics of various species and their interactions with the environment. My research investigates how we can effectively conserve very rare species and how plants can cope with future climate change, for instance in the high-altitude regions of Nepal. I am also deeply interested in plant-herbivore interactions and the role of plant-soil feedbacks in species coexistence. I am also dedicated to the long-term monitoring and population biology of endangered species such as Dianthus arenarius subsp. bohemicus and Dracocephalum austriacum.

Expertise

Plant-soil feedbacks
Plant-animal interactions
Species adaptation to climate change
Population dynamics modelling
Conservation biology

Education

2005-2010 PhD in Botany – Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
2000-2005 Master degree in Biology, spec. in Botany – Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague

Employment

Since 2006 The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Průhonice
Since 2006 Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague

Research projects

Long and short-term species response to aridification using the true Rose of Jericho as a model (2024-2026)

FuncNet – Improving the Functional Connectivity of Grassland Networks for Plant-Pollinator Interactions (2023-2026)

Genetic diversity, its changes over time and the impact on the fitness of important rare species as a key aspect for the development of the rescue programs and action plans (2024-2026)

The importance of plant-soil interactions for plant response to ongoing climate change (2022-2024)

Plant functional traits as factors explaining intra- and inter-specific plant-soil feedback across species and genotypes (2020-2022)

Spatial variability in plant-soil feedback as an important driver of species co-existence (2019-2021)

Variability in plant traits as a tool to cope with climate change – from phenotypes to genes and back again (2017-2019)

Study of population dynamics and vegetation monitoring of Dianthus arenarius subsp. bohemicus (since 2012)

Effect of climate change on plant-herbivore interactions along and elevational gradient in the Himalayan region (2013-2015)

Population biology of Dracocephalum austriacum (since 2002)

Publications

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ResearcherID: A-1260-2011

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3681-5223

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