Pavel Fibich

I am plant ecologists with focus on spatial aspects of ecological processes in communities using advanced spatial, statistical and null model approaches. After finishing master’s degree in numerical computation (Masaryk university - Faculty of Informatics), bachelor’s degree in forestry (Mendel university - Forestry faculty) and doctoral degree in botany (University of South Bohemia - Faculty of Sciences, USB), I continued in cooperation in Functional Plants Ecology working group on USB with Jan Suspa Leps (supervisor of PhD thesis) and Francesco de Bello, where I am working on the topics of functional traits, biodiversity ecosystem functioning, species pool and dark diversity (e.g. by our R package gawdis). Here, I also worked with Jakub Tesitel to investigated associations of hemiparasitic plants in landscape scales.

Meantime I started as a postdoc and still cooperate with Vojtěch Novotný and Petr Klimeš from Laboratory of Tropical Ecology, Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences (2012-..), where I am focusing on spatial aspects of ecological process in the tropical forest (covering not only trees, but also herbivorous and predatory guilds), mainly in 50 ha permanent plot in the tropical forest in Wanang Papua New Guinea, part of Forest GEO (CTFS).

Moreover, I intensively cooperate with Jan Altman and Jiří Doležal from Department of Functional Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences (2013-..), where I am working on forest ecology and detection of past large scale disturbances in tree rings (by our R package TRADER).