Prof. David Storch, Ph.D.

Prof. David Storch, Ph.D., (*1970) is a biologist. He is focused on macroecology, biodiversity and ecological theory. He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Sheffield and the Santa Fe Institute; he is a professor at the Faculty of Science, Charles University. He is associate editor of Ecology Letters and Global Ecology and Biogeography. In addition to research papers and science popularization articles, he has written a number of books, including (in Czech) "Introduction to Contemporary Ecology" (with Stanislav Mihulka) and "Biology of the Landscape" (with Jiří Sádlo), and (in German) “Evolution: Ein Lesse-Lehrbuch”. He edited the books "Scaling Biodiversity" (published by Cambridge University Press) and (in Czech) "The Anthropocene" (with Petr Pokorný). He is a chairman of the Committee of the Czech Society for Ecology, and member of the Board of the Nature Conservation Forum and of the Board of the Director of the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic. He is an elected member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic and Academia Europaea.

Selected Publications:

Storch D., Koleček J., Keil P., Vermouzek Z., Voříšek P. & Reif J. (2023). Decomposing trends in bird populations: Climate, life histories and habitat affect different aspects of population change. Diversity & Distributions 29: 572-585.

Šímová I., Ordonez A. & Storch D. (2023). The dynamics of the diversity-energy relationship during the last 21,000 years. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32: 707-718.

Rineau V., Smyčka J. & Storch D. (2022). Diversity-dependence is a ubiquitous phenomenon across Phanerozoic oceans. Science Advances 8: eadd9620.

Storch D., Šímová I., Smyčka J., Bohdalková E., Toszogyova A. & Okie J.G. (2022). Biodiversity dynamics in the Anthropocene: How human activities change equilibria of species richness. Ecography 44: e05778. Doi: 10.1111/ecog.05778.

Hatton I.A., Dobson A.P., Storch D., Galbraith E.D. & Loreau M. (2019). Linking scaling laws across eukaryotes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 116: 21616-21622.

Storch D. & Okie J. (2019). Carrying capacity for species richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28: 1519-1532.

Etienne R.S., Cabral J.S., Hagen O., Hartig F., Hurlbert A.H., Pellisier L., Pontarp M. & Storch D. (2019). A minimal model for the latitudinal diversity gradient suggests a dominant role for ecological limits. American Naturalist 194: E122-E123.

Storch D., Bohdalková E. & Okie J. (2018). The more-individuals hypothesis revisited: the role of community abundance in species richness regulation and the productivity-diversity relationship. Ecology Letters 21: 920-937.

Graham C.H., Storch D. & Macháč A. (2018). Phylogenetic scale in ecology and evolution. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 175-187.

Šímová I. & Storch D. (2017). The enigma of terrestrial primary productivity: measurements, models, scales and the diversity-productivity relationship. Ecography 40: 239-252.

Keil P., Storch D., Jetz W. (2015). On the decline of biodiversity due to area loss. Nature Communications 6: 8837. DOI:10.1038/ncomms9837.

Storch D., Keil P. & Jetz W. (2012). Universal species-area and endemics-area relationships at continental scales. Nature 488: 78-81.