Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Mgr. Jan Roleček, Ph.D., born 21 07 1976 in Litomyšl, married, 2 childern. Address: Náměšť nad Oslavou, Havlíčkova 451, 675 71.

Department

• Department of Botany and Zoology Faculty of Science Masaryk University Kotlářská 2 611 37 Brno

Employment - Position

• Research Fellow (Senior Research Assistant)

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2007: PhD in Botany; Masaryk University, Brno; thesis: Subcontinental oak forests in Central and Eastern Europe 1999: Master in Nature Conservation and Management; Palacký University in Olomouc; thesis: Bird community of Odra River alluvium in Libavá Military Training Range

Employment

• 2004–: Research Assistant (Senior Research Assistant) at the Department of Botany (and Zoology), Masaryk University 2009–: Scientific Researcher (Senior Scientific Researcher) at the Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences 2013–2015: Deputy Director for Brno Research Division at the Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences

Teaching Activities

• Courses: Reading of the botanical literature (2003-2011) Forest ecology (since 2004) Protected areas of the Czech Republic (since 2005) Special field practice in botany and zoology (since 2009) Quaternary environments (since 2013) Supervision: 6 Master students, 9 Bachelor students.

Scientific and Research Activities

• Focus: Diversity, ecology and history of oak forests in Central and Eastern Europe; diversity, ecology and history of extremely species-rich grasslands in Central and Eastern Europe; pollen-vegetation relationship and its applications in (palaeo)ecology Projects: 2016–2018: Origin of diversity of Central European landscapes: using recent pollen and vegetation models to reconstruct historical biodiversity changes. Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, 16-10100S (leaders: Roleček, Abraham) 2012–2015: Pollen-based land-cover reconstruction – model testing and its implications for Holocene environmental change studies. Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, P504/12/0649 (leaders: Kuneš, Roleček) 2012–2015: Coppice forests as the production and biological alternative for the future. MŠMT OPVK CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0267 (leader: Vrška) 2009–2011: Vegetation of the Czech Republic: completion of the national survey of plant communities. Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, GA206/09/0329 (leaders: Chytrý, Hédl) 2005–2007: Vegetation variability on landscape and geographical scale: gradient analysis, classification, interpretations. Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences, KJB601630504 (leader: Roleček)

Internship

• 2014: 3-weeks research stay in Alterra, Wageningen Environmental Research, Netherlands

University Activities

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Activities Outside University

• 2017-: Member of the European Vegetation Classification Commitee by the European Vegetation Survey (working group of the International Association for Vegetation Science) 2016-: Member of Board of the Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences 2013–2015: Deputy Director for Brno Research Division at the Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences

Awards Related to Science and Research

• 2017: Associate Editor of Phytocoenologia - Journal of Vegetation Ecology 2015-2016: Chief Editor of Phytocoenologia - Journal of Vegetation Ecology 2015: Invited talk at the symposium of Czech Society for Ecology

Major Publications

• HÁJEK, Michal, Lydie DUDOVÁ, Petra HÁJKOVÁ, Jan ROLEČEK, Jitka MOUTELÍKOVÁ, Eva JAMRICHOVÁ and Michal HORSÁK. Contrasting Holocene environmental histories may explain patterns of species richness and rarity in a Central European landscape. Quaternary Science Reviews. Elsevier, 2016, vol. 133, February, p. 48-61. ISSN 0277-3791. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.12.012. info
• DE CÁCERES, Miquel, Milan CHYTRÝ, Emiliano AGRILLO, Fabio ATTORRE, Zoltán BOTTA-DUKÁT, Jorge CAPELO, Bálint CZÚCZ, Jürgen DENGLER, Jörg EWALD, Don FABER-LANGENDOEN, Enrico FEOLI, Scott B. FRANKLIN, Rosario GAVILÁN, Francois GILLET, Florian JANSEN, Francisco De Borja JIMÉNEZ ALFARO GONZÁLEZ, Pavel KRESTOV, Flavia LANDUCCI, Attila LENGYEL, Javier LOIDI, Ladislav MUCINA, Robert K. PEET, Dave W. ROBERTS, Jan ROLEČEK, Joop H.J. SCHAMINÉE, Sebastian SCHMIDTLEIN, Jean-Paul THEURILLAT, Lubomír TICHÝ, Donald A. WALKER, Otto WILDI, Wolfgang WILLNER and Susan K. WISER. A comparative framework for broad-scale plot-based vegetation classification. Applied Vegetation Science. Wiley, 2015, vol. 18, No 4, p. 543-560. ISSN 1402-2001. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12179. URL info
• ROLEČEK, Jan, Michal HÁJEK, Petr KARLÍK and Jan NOVÁK. Reliktní vegetace na mezických stanovištích (Relict vegetation on mesic sites). Zprávy České botanické společnosti. Praha, 2015, vol. 50, No 2, p. 201-245. ISSN 1212-3323. info
• BERGMEIER, Erwin, Jürgen DENGLER, Monika JANIŠOVÁ, Florian JANSEN, Pavel KRESTOV, Jan ROLEČEK, Donald A. WALKER and Wolfgang WILLNER. Re-launch of Phytocoenologia: new profile for the classic vegetation ecology journal. Stuttgart: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 2015. ISSN 0340-269X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2015/0069. info
• ROLEČEK, Jan, Illja Illič ČORNEJ and Alla Ilarionivna TOKARJUK. Understanding the extreme species richness of semi-dry grasslands in east-central Europe: a comparative approach. Preslia. Česká botanická společnost, 2014, vol. 86, No 1, p. 13-34. ISSN 0032-7786. info
• VILD, Ondřej, Jan ROLEČEK, Radim HÉDL, Martin KOPECKÝ and Dušan UTINEK. Experimental restoration of coppice-with-standards: Response of understorey vegetation from the conservation perspective. Forest Ecology and Management. Elsevier, 2013, vol. 310, 15 December 2013, p. 234-241. ISSN 0378-1127. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.07.056. URL info
• CHYTRÝ, Milan, Jan DOUDA, Jan ROLEČEK, Jiří SÁDLO, Karel BOUBLÍK, Radim HÉDL, Michaela VÍTKOVÁ, David ZELENÝ, Jana NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Zdenka NEUHÄUSLOVÁ, Petr PETŘÍK, Jiří KOLBEK, Zdeňka LOSOSOVÁ, Kateřina ŠUMBEROVÁ, Richard HRIVNÁK, Dana MICHALCOVÁ, Kristýna ŽÁKOVÁ, Jiří DANIHELKA, Lubomír TICHÝ, Václav ZOUHAR and Martin KOČÍ. Vegetace České republiky 4. Lesní a křovinná vegetace (Vegetation of the Czech Republic 4. Forest and scrub vegetation). Praha: Academia, 2013, 552 pp. Vegetace České republiky 4. ISBN 978-80-200-2299-8. URL info
• UĞURLU, Emin, Jan ROLEČEK and Erwin BERGMEIER. Oak woodland vegetation of Turkey-a first overview based on multivariate statistics. Applied Vegetation Science. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, vol. 15, No 4, p. 590-608. ISSN 1402-2001. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1654-109X.2012.01192.x. info
• HÁJKOVÁ, Petra, Jan ROLEČEK, Michal HÁJEK, Michal HORSÁK, Karel FAJMON, Michal POLÁK and Eva JAMRICHOVÁ. Prehistoric origin of extremely species-rich semi-dry grasslands in the Bílé Karpaty Mts. Preslia. 2011, vol. 83, No 2, p. 185-204. ISSN 0032-7786. info
• HÁJEK, Michal, Jan ROLEČEK, Karl COTTENIE, Kateřina KINTROVÁ, Michal HORSÁK, Aloisie POULÍČKOVÁ, Petra HÁJKOVÁ, Markéta FRÁNKOVÁ and Daniel DÍTĚ. Environmental and spatial controls of biotic assemblages in a discrete semi-terrestrial habitat: comparison of organisms with different dispersal ability sampled in the same plots. Journal of Biogeography. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, vol. 38, No 9, p. 1683-1693. ISSN 0305-0270. URL info
• ROLEČEK, Jan, Lubomír TICHÝ, David ZELENÝ and Milan CHYTRÝ. Modified TWINSPAN classification in which the hierarchy respects cluster heterogeneity. Journal of Vegetation Science. Uppsala: Opulus Press, 2009, vol. 20, No 4, p. 596-602. ISSN 1100-9233. URL info
• HOFMEISTER, Jeňýk, Jan HOŠEK, Martin MODRÝ and Jan ROLEČEK. The influence of light and nutrient availability on herb layer species richness in oak-dominated forests in central Bohemia. Plant Ecology. Netherlands: Springer, 2009, vol. 205, No 1, p. 57-75. ISSN 1385-0237. info
• CHYTRÝ, Milan, Lubomír TICHÝ and Jan ROLEČEK. Local and regional patterns of species richness in Central European vegetation types along the pH/calcium gradient. Folia Geobotanica. Pruhonice: Institute of Botany, 2003, vol. 38, No 4, p. 429-442. ISSN 1211-9520. URL info

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