David Storch, Ph.D.Employment and fellowships
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Education
Research interestsMacroecology, biodiversity, evolutionary ecology, biogeography, community ecology, ecological complexity, species commonness and rarity.
University courses
Selected publications
Original papersStorch D., Keil P. & Jetz W. 2012: Universal species-area and endemics-area relationships at continental scales. Nature 488: 78-81. [PDF, Supplement] Keil P., Schweiger O., Kühn I., Kunin W.E., Kuussaari M., Settele J., Henle K., Brotons L., Peer G., Lengyel S., Moustakas A., Steinicke H. & Storch D. 2012: Patterns of beta diversity in Europe: the role of climate, land-cover and distance across scales. Journal of Biogeography 39: 1473-1486. [PDF] Šizling A.L., Kunin W.E., Šizlingová E., Reif J. & Storch D. 2011: Between geometry and biology: the problem of universality of the species-area relationship. American Naturalist 178: 602-611. [PDF, Appendix A, AppendixB] Hořák D., Sedláček O., Tószögyová A., Albrecht T., Ferenc M., Jelínek V. & Storch D. 2011: Geographic variation in avian clutch size and nest predation risk along a productivity gradient in South Africa. Ostrich 82: 175-183. [PDF] Šímová I., Storch D., Keil P., Boyle B., Phillips O.L. & Enquist B.J. 2011: Global species-energy relationship in forest plots: role of abundance, temperature and species' climatic tolerances. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 842-856. [PDF] Isaac N.J.B., Storch D. & Carbone C. 2011: Taxonomic variation in size-density relationships challenges the notion of energy equivalence. Biology Letters 7: 615-618. [PDF] Macháč A., Zrzavý J. & Storch D. 2011: Range size heritability in Carnivora is driven by geographic constraints. American Naturalist 177: 767-779. [PDF] Pautasso M., Böhning-Gaese K., Clergeau P., Cueto V.R., Dinetti M., Fernández-Juricic E., Kaisanlahti-Jokimäki M.-L., Jokimäki J., McKinney M.L., Sodhi N.S., Storch D., Tomialojc L., Weisberg P.J., Woinarski J., Fuller R.A. & Cantarello E. 2011: Global macroecology of bird assemblages in urbanized and semi-natural ecosystems. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 426-436. [PDF] Keil P., Herben T., Rosindell J. & Storch D. 2010: Predictions of Taylor's power law, density dependence and pink noise from a neutrally modeled time series. Journal of Theoretical Biology 265: 78-86. [PDF] Šizling A.L., Storch D. & Keil P. 2009: Rapoport's rule, species tolerances, and the latitudinal diversity gradient: geometric considerations. Ecology 90: 3575-3586. [PDF] Harte J., Smith A.B. & Storch D. 2009: Biodiversity scales from plots to biomes with a universal species-area curve. Ecology Letters 12: 789-797. [PDF] Šizling A.L., Šizlingová E., Storch D., Reif J. & Gaston K.J. 2009: Rarity, commonness and the contribution of individual species to species richness patterns. American Naturalist 174: 82-93. [PDF]
Morlon H., White E.P., Etienne R.S., Green J.L., Ostling A., Alonso D., Enquist B.J., He F., Hurlbert A., Magurran A.E., Maurer B.A., McGill B.J., Olff H., Storch D. & Zillio T. 2009: Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals. Ecology Letters 12: 488-501. [PDF]
Šizling A.L., Storch D., Šizlingová E., Reif J. & Gaston K.J. 2009: Species-abundance distribution results from a spatial analogy of central limit theorem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 106: 6691-6695. [PDF]
Šizling A.L., Storch D., Reif J. & Gaston K.J. 2009: Invariance in species-abundance distribution. Theoretical Ecology 2: 89-103. [PDF]
Reif J., Storch D. & Šímová I. 2008: The effect of scale-dependent habitat gradients on the structure of bird assemblages in the Czech Republic. Acta Ornithologica 43: 197-206. [PDF]
Storch D. & Šizling A.L. 2008: The concept of taxon invariance in ecology: do diversity patterns vary with changes in taxonomic resolution? Folia Geobotanica 43: 329-344. [PDF]
Nekola J.C., Šizling A.L., Boyer A.G. & Storch D. 2008: Artifactions in the log-transformation of species abundance distributions. Folia Geobotanica 43: 259-268. [PDF]
Reif J., Storch D., Voříšek P., Šťastný K. & Bejček V. 2008: Bird-habitat associations predict population trends in central European forest and farmland birds. Biodiversity and Conservation 17: 3307-3319. [PDF]
Keil P., Dziock F. & Storch D. 2008: Geographical patterns of hoverfly (Diptera, Syrphidae) functional groups in Europe: inconsistency in environmental correlates and latitudinal trends. Ecological Entomology 33: 748-757. [PDF]
Storch D., Šizling A.L., Reif J., Polechová J., Šizlingová E. & Gaston K.J. 2008: The quest for a null model for macroecological patterns: geometry of species distributions at multiple spatial scales. Ecology Letters 11: 771-784. [PDF]
Evans K.L., Newson S.E., Storch D., Greenwood J.J.D. & Gaston K.J. 2008: Spatial scale, abundance and the species-energy relationship in British birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 395-405. [PDF]
Davies R.D., Orme C.D.L., Storch D., Olson V., Thomas G.H., Ross S.G., Benett P.M., Owens I.P.F., Blackburn T.M. & Gaston K.J. 2007: Topography, energy and the global distribution of bird species richness. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274: 1189-1197. [PDF] 2006: Energy, range dynamics and global species richness patterns: Reconciling mid-domain effects and environmental determinants of avian diversity. Ecology Letters 9: 1308-1320. [PDF] 2006: Unusual abundance-range size relationship in an Afromontane bird community: the effect of geographical isolation? Journal of Biogeography 33: 1959-1968. [PDF] 2005: The species-area-energy relationship. Ecology Letters 8: 487-492. [PDF] 2005: Untangling an entangled bank. Science 307: 684-686. [PDF] 2004: Untangling ecological complexity on different scales of space and time. Basic and Applied Ecology 5: 389-400. [PDF] Bonn A., Storch D. & Gaston K. J. 2004: Structure of the species-energy relationship. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271: 1685-1691. [PDF] Šizling A.L. & Storch D 2004: Power-law species-area relationships and self-similar species distributions within finite areas. Ecology Letters 7: 60-68. [PDF] Storch D. 2003: Comment on “Global biodiversity, biochemical kinetics and the energetic-equivalence rule”. Science 299: 346b. [PDF] Storch D., Šizling A. & Gaston K. 2003: Geometry of the species-area relationship in central European birds: testing the mechanism. Journal of Animal Ecology 72: 509-519. [PDF] Storch D., Konvička M., Beneš J., Martinková J. & Gaston K.J. 2003: Distribution patterns in butterflies and birds of the Czech Republic: separating effects of habitat and geographic position. Journal of Biogeography 30: 1195-1205. [PDF] Storch D., Gaston K.J. & Cepák J. 2002: Pink landscapes: 1/f spectra of spatial environmental variability and bird community composition. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269: 1791-1796. [PDF] Storch D. & Šizling A.L. 2002: Patterns in commoness and rarity in central European birds: Reliability of the core-satellite hypothesis within a large scale. Ecography 25: 405-416. [PDF] Storch D. & Frynta D. 2000: Evolution of habitat selection: Stochastic acquisition of cognitive clues? Evolutionary Ecology 13: 591-600. [PDF] Storch D.2000: Rapoport effect and speciation/extinction rates in the tropics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 514. Storch D. & Kotecký V. 1999: Structure of bird communities in the Czech Republic: The effect of area, census technique and habitat type. Folia zoologica 48 (4): 265-277. Storch D. & Musil P. 1999: Waterbird habitat preferences and their inter-annual changes related to population dynamics. Vogelwelt 120 (Suppl.): 257-260. Storch D. 1998: Densities and territory sizes of birds in two different lowland communities in eastern Bohemia. Folia zoologica 47 (3): 181-188.
BooksZrzavý J., Storch D. & Mihulka S. 2009: Evolution: Ein Lese-Lehrbuch. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg. Storch D., Marquet P.A. & Brown J.H. (eds.) 2007: Scaling biodiversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Zrzavý J., Storch D. & Mihulka S. 2004: Jak se dělá evoluce: Od sobeckých genů k rozmanitosti života. [Evolution: From selfish genes to the diversity of life] Paseka, Praha. Sádlo J., Storch D. 2000: Biologie krajiny: Biotopy České republiky. [Biology of Landscape: Habitats of the Czech Republic] Vesmír, Praha. Storch D., Mihulka S. 2000: Úvod do současné ekologie. [An introduction to contemporary ecology] Portál, Praha. Storch D., Mihulka S. 1997: Ekologie. [Ecology] IDM MŠMT ČR, Praha. [the first, shorter version of Storch & Mihulka 2000]
Reviews, book chapters and major popular scientific articlesStorch D. 2012: Hlad po fosforu. Respekt 45, 5.-11. listopad 2012, str. 63-65. [PDF] Storch D. 2012: Svátek přehnojené planety: Přírodu má smysl chránit - ale z úplně jiných důvodů a úplně jinak, než si lidé myslí. Lidové Noviny - Orientace, 21.-22. dubna 2012, str. 21-22. [PDF 1, PDF 2] Storch D. 2012: Věda, ekologie, ideologie a myšlení. In: Hlaváček P. (ed.), Intelektuál ve veřejném prostoru: Vzdělanost, věda, politika. Academia, Praha, pp. 343-351. [PDF] Storch D. 2012: Biodiversity and its energetic and thermal controls. In: Sibly R.M., Brown J.H. & Kodric-Brown A. (eds.), Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 120-131. [PDF] Storch D. 2011: Žijeme v době šestého masového vymírání? Odhady současných změn biodiverzity po deseti letech. Vesmír 90: 568-572. [PDF; příloha PDF] Storch D. 2011: Teorie ideálního lesa. Vesmír 90: 351-356. [PDF] Storch D. 2010: Metabolismus a velikost těla v novém tisíciletí: Je tříčtvrtinový koeficient univerzální? Vesmír 89: 536-538. [PDF] Storch D. 2010: Dvě vědy: Matematická přírodověda, taxonomie a přirozený svět. In: Velický B., Trlifajová K., Kouba P. et al., Spor o přirozený svět. Filosofia, Praha, pp. 273-284. [PDF] Storch D. & Šizling A.L. 2009: O převaze vzácnosti v přírodě: Dobře ukrytá informace o struktuře krajiny. Vesmír 88: 784-787. [PDF] Storch D. 2009: Čtení Darwina: Původ druhů po 150 letech. Vesmír 88: 444-450. [PDF] Polechová J. & Storch D. 2008: Ecological niche. In: Jorgensen S.E. & Fath B. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Ecology. Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 1088-1097. [PDF] Storch D. 2008: Katastrofy v přírodě: statistika, dynamika a teorie. In: Pokorný P. & Bárta M. (eds.), Něco překrásného se končí: Kolapsy v přírodě a společnosti. Dokořán, Praha, pp. 31-36. [PDF] Storch D., Šizling A.L. & Gaston, K.J. 2007: Scaling species richness and distribution: Uniting the species-area and species-energy relationships. In: Storch D., Marquet P.A. & Brown J.H. (eds.), Scaling biodiversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 300-322. [PDF] Šizling A.L. & Storch D. 2007: Geometry of species distributions: Random clustering and scale invariance. In: Storch D., Marquet P.A. & Brown J.H. (eds.), Scaling biodiversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 77-100. [PDF] Storch D. 2006: Jaký je vlastně les: Obraz lesa v přírodních vědách. Dějiny a současnost 11: 34-36. [PDF] Storch D. 2006: Pochybnosti o stavu přírody aneb proč ji vlastně chránit. Ekolist 3: 12-15. [PDF] Storch D. 2004: Metabolická teorie biologie aneb Nová teorie všeho (živého)? Vesmír 83, 508-516. [PDF] Storch D. and Reif J. 2003: Macroecology of birds: what have we learned from the large-scale censuses. Sylvia 38, 1-18. (in Czech, summary in English) [PDF] Storch D. 2002: Krajina není. In: Hájek P. (editor) 2002: Krajina zevnitř. Malá skála, Praha. Storch D. 2001: Biodiversity, Chapter 1.1.6.3. in Encyclopedia of Life support Systems, UNESCO. Storch D. 2001: Jak rychle vymírají druhy: Potíže s odhady globální biodiverzity a jejích změn. Vesmír 80: 573-575. [PDF] Storch D. 2000: O vzniku druhů přirozeným výběrem: Role prostředí v evoluci biodiverzity. Vesmír 79: 550-552. [PDF] Storch D. 2000: Přežívání populací v ostrůvkovitém prostředí: Co jsou metapopulace a jak fungují. Vesmír 79: 143-145. [PDF] Storch D. 1999: Proč je malých zvířat víc než velkých. Vesmír 78: 377-383. [PDF] Storch D. 1998: Proč žije v tropech tolik druhů organismů. Vesmír 77: 677-678. [PDF] Storch D. 1995: Interspecific competition in birds. Biol.listy 60: 259-273. (in Czech, summary in English)
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