RNDr. Antonín Macháč, Ph.D.

How the diversity of life emerged is one of the key questions in biology. My work addresses this question by exploring evolutionary diversification and its ecological controls. More specifically, I study how climate, topography, and biotic interactions influence the processes of speciation and extinction. Employing complex statistics implemented on large computer clusters, my research integrates phylogenetic data with geographic information and functional traits. The results of this integrative approach increase our understanding of global diversity dynamics.