Jan Smyčka

Jan Smyčka studied botany at the Faculty of Science of Charles University and evolutionary biology at Université Grenoble Alpes. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the evolutionary histories of European alpine flora, with particular focus on speciation and survival of species during the glacial periods.

He is currently interested in predictability of species emergence and extinction in time, across geographic and taxonomic systems. His favorite study system are still mountains and their biota.

Jan Smycka at Google Scholar

Current grants (Researcher):

The equilibrium theory of biodiversity dynamics - macroecological perspective [detail]

2020 - 2024, GA ČR EXPRO 20-29554X board n. EX5

Selected bibliography:

Storch, David; Šímová, Irena; Smyčka, Jan; Bohdalková, Eliška; Tószögyová, Anna; Okie, Jordan (2022): Biodiversity dynamics in the Anthropocene: how human activities change equilibria of species richness

Ecography 44: e05778. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05778 (Part of Special Issue: Restoration)

Rineau, Valentin; Smyčka, Jan (2022): Diversity-dependence is a ubiquitous phenomenon across Phanerozoic oceans.

Science Advances 8: eadd9620.

Smyčka, Jan; Roquet, C.; Boleda, Martí; Alberti, Adriana; Boyer, Frédéric; Douzet, Rolland; Perrier, Christophe; et al., (2022): Tempo and drivers of plant diversification in the European mountain system.

Nature Communications 13.

Smyčka, Jan; Roquet, C.; Renaud, J.; Thuiller, W.; Zimmermann, N.; Lavergne, S. (2017): Disentangling drivers of plant endemism and diversification in the European Alps - a phylogenetic and spatially explicit approach

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. [detail]

Smyčka, Jan; Herben T., (2017): Phylogenetic patterns of tragedy of commons in intraspecific root competition

Plant and Soil.

Janovský , Z.; Smyčka, Jan; Smyčková, M.; Herben T., (2017): Pollinator preferences and flower constancy: is it adaptive for plants to manipulate them?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Weiser, M.; Smyčka, Jan (2015): Simple model for influence of habitat resource availability on lateral clonal spread

Proceedings of the Royal Society B.