David Štorch

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

David Štorch is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, David Štorch has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 52 papers in Ecology and 42 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in David Štorch's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (63 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (42 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (25 papers). David Štorch is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (63 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (42 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (25 papers). David Štorch collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, United States and United Kingdom. David Štorch's co-authors include Kevin J. Gaston, Arnošt L. Šizling, Jordan G. Okie, Petr Keil, Eliška Bohdalková, Irena Šímová, Jiří Reif, Antonín Macháč, Walter Jetz and John Harte and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Štorch

94 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The more‐individuals hypothesis revisited: the role of community abundance in species richness regulation and the productivity–diversity relationship

2018 234 citations David Štorch, Eliška Bohdalková et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Štorch Czechia	40	2.3k	2.1k	1.6k	1.3k	886	97	4.2k
Jonathan Belmaker Israel	33	1.9k 0.8×	2.8k 1.3×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.7×	99	4.6k
Signe Normand Denmark	35	2.4k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	2.6k 1.6×	1.4k 1.1×	859 1.0×	93	5.1k
Allen H. Hurlbert United States	35	2.8k 1.2×	2.9k 1.4×	2.5k 1.5×	1.8k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	70	5.6k
Healy Hamilton United States	25	1.5k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	826 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	41	4.0k
Christine N. Meynard France	26	1.9k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	984 0.8×	702 0.8×	54	3.5k
Kalle Ruokolainen Finland	36	2.8k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	2.1k 1.6×	940 1.1×	82	4.5k
Miguel Á. Rodrı́guez Spain	35	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	98	3.9k
Juliano Sarmento Cabral Germany	26	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	870 0.7×	579 0.7×	57	3.1k
François Guilhaumon France	34	1.7k 0.7×	2.5k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	897 0.7×	1.9k 2.1×	87	4.5k
Gunnar Keppel Australia	28	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	818 0.9×	98	3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Štorch

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Coelho, Marco Túlio Pacheco, Elisa Barreto, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz‐Filho, et al.. (2025). Consistent energy-diversity relationships in terrestrial vertebrates. Science. 389(6755). 53–57.

Čuda, Jan, Llewellyn C. Foxcroft, Sandra MacFadyen, et al.. (2024). Climate‐Driven Vegetation Characteristics Shape Phytophagous and Carnivorous Insect Diversity in South African Savannahs. Journal of Biogeography. 52(4). 1 indexed citations

Tószögyová, Anna, Jan Smyčka, & David Štorch. (2024). Mathematical biases in the calculation of the Living Planet Index lead to overestimation of vertebrate population decline. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5295–5295. 6 indexed citations

Čuda, Jan, Martin Hejda, Llewellyn C. Foxcroft, et al.. (2024). Habitat modifies the relationship between grass and herbivore species richness in a South African savanna. Ecology and Evolution. 14(4). e11167–e11167. 3 indexed citations

Hošek, Jan, Petr Pokorný, David Štorch, et al.. (2024). Hot spring oases in the periglacial desert as the Last Glacial Maximum refugia for temperate trees in Central Europe. Science Advances. 10(22). eado6611–eado6611. 4 indexed citations

Okie, Jordan G. & David Štorch. (2024). The Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics: A General Framework for Scaling Species Richness and Community Abundance along Environmental Gradients. The American Naturalist. 205(1). 20–40. 3 indexed citations

Štorch, David, Jaroslav Koleček, Petr Keil, et al.. (2023). Decomposing trends in bird populations: Climate, life histories and habitat affect different aspects of population change. Diversity and Distributions. 29(4). 572–585. 17 indexed citations

Šímová, Irena, Alejandro Ordóñez, & David Štorch. (2023). The dynamics of the diversity–energy relationship during the last 21,000 years. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(5). 707–718. 3 indexed citations

Smyčka, Jan, Anna Tószögyová, & David Štorch. (2023). The relationship between geographic range size and rates of species diversification. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5559–5559. 15 indexed citations

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Štorch, David, Ondřej Sedláček, Tomáš Albrecht, et al.. (2022). Moth Diversity Increases along a Continent-Wide Gradient of Environmental Productivity in South African Savannahs. Insects. 13(9). 778–778. 3 indexed citations

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Štorch, David, Irena Šímová, Jan Smyčka, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity dynamics in the Anthropocene: how human activities change equilibria of species richness. Ecography. 2022(4). 55 indexed citations

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Bohdalková, Eliška, Anna Tószögyová, Irena Šímová, & David Štorch. (2021). Universality in biodiversity patterns: variation in species–temperature and species–productivity relationships reveals a prominent role of productivity in diversity gradients. Ecography. 44(9). 1366–1378. 17 indexed citations

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Pyšek, Petr, Martin Hejda, Jan Čuda, et al.. (2020). Into the great wide open: do alien plants spread from rivers to dry savanna in the Kruger National Park?. NeoBiota. 60. 61–77. 11 indexed citations

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Tószögyová, Anna & David Štorch. (2019). Global diversity patterns are modulated by temporal fluctuations in primary productivity. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(12). 1827–1838. 16 indexed citations

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Mikula, Peter, Anna Tószögyová, David Hořák, et al.. (2019). Female solo song and duetting are associated with different territoriality in songbirds. Behavioral Ecology. 31(2). 322–329. 8 indexed citations

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Graham, Catherine H., David Štorch, & Antonín Macháč. (2018). Phylogenetic scale in ecology and evolution. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27(2). 175–187. 143 indexed citations

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Šímová, Irena & David Štorch. (2016). The enigma of terrestrial primary productivity: measurements, models, scales and the diversity–productivity relationship. Ecography. 40(2). 239–252. 57 indexed citations

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Keil, Petr, Tomáš Herben, James Rosindell, & David Štorch. (2010). Predictions of Taylor's power law, density dependence and pink noise from a neutrally modeled time series. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 265(1). 78–86. 18 indexed citations

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Evans, Karl L., Stuart E. Newson, David Štorch, Jeremy J. D. Greenwood, & Kevin J. Gaston. (2007). Spatial scale, abundance and the species–energy relationship in British birds. Journal of Animal Ecology. 77(2). 395–405. 61 indexed citations

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Štorch, David, Pablo A. Marquet, & Kevin J. Gaston. (2005). Untangling an Entangled Bank. Science. 307(5710). 684–686. 11 indexed citations

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