Jan Lepš

26.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
232 papers, 18.8k citations indexed

About

Jan Lepš is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Lepš has authored 232 papers receiving a total of 18.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 178 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 130 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 99 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Jan Lepš's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (172 papers), Plant and animal studies (115 papers) and Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (52 papers). Jan Lepš is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (172 papers), Plant and animal studies (115 papers) and Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (52 papers). Jan Lepš collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, United States and Spain. Jan Lepš's co-authors include Petr Šmilauer, Francesco de Bello, Jiří Doležal, Sandra Lavorel, Maria‐Teresa Sebastià, Carlos P. Carmona, Norman W. H. Mason, Wilfried Thuiller, Marcel Rejmánek and Lars Götzenberger and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Jan Lepš

229 papers receiving 17.9k citations

Hit Papers

Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2006 2014 2011 2011 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO
    2003 4.0k citations Jan Lepš, Petr Šmilauer profile →
  2. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data
    2006 1.7k citations Jan Lepš, Petr Šmilauer profile →
  3. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO 5
    2014 1.2k citations Petr Šmilauer, Jan Lepš profile →
  4. Ecological assembly rules in plant communities—approaches, patterns and prospects
    2011 704 citations Lars Götzenberger, Francesco de Bello et al. profile →
  5. Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects
    2011 350 citations Jan Lepš, Francesco de Bello et al. profile →
  6. Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales
    2016 323 citations Francesco de Bello, Jan Lepš et al. profile →
  7. Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle
    2021 167 citations Francesco de Bello, Sandra Lavorel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jan Lepš Czechia 59 10.8k 7.2k 7.1k 5.4k 3.2k 232 18.8k
Markus Fischer Switzerland 68 9.7k 0.9× 8.7k 1.2× 5.0k 0.7× 7.0k 1.3× 3.1k 1.0× 286 19.0k
Marc W. Cadotte Canada 58 9.7k 0.9× 6.4k 0.9× 5.9k 0.8× 2.9k 0.5× 3.4k 1.1× 215 16.0k
Francesco de Bello Czechia 67 11.5k 1.1× 7.5k 1.0× 5.4k 0.8× 3.6k 0.7× 4.3k 1.4× 182 17.0k
Carla M. D’Antonio United States 59 12.7k 1.2× 6.2k 0.9× 12.0k 1.7× 6.4k 1.2× 8.1k 2.6× 172 24.6k
Mark Vellend Canada 52 8.5k 0.8× 5.6k 0.8× 7.1k 1.0× 2.7k 0.5× 3.3k 1.1× 132 16.2k
William K. Cornwell Australia 50 7.8k 0.7× 5.6k 0.8× 5.3k 0.7× 3.8k 0.7× 3.7k 1.2× 154 16.1k
Diane S. Srivastava Canada 40 7.0k 0.6× 4.5k 0.6× 7.2k 1.0× 2.1k 0.4× 4.1k 1.3× 116 16.3k
Andy Hector United Kingdom 50 14.1k 1.3× 7.2k 1.0× 9.1k 1.3× 5.1k 1.0× 8.3k 2.6× 105 26.1k
Katharine N. Suding United States 59 9.4k 0.9× 4.4k 0.6× 6.4k 0.9× 4.8k 0.9× 5.0k 1.6× 193 16.6k
Cyrille Violle France 55 9.0k 0.8× 6.1k 0.8× 4.5k 0.6× 4.2k 0.8× 3.5k 1.1× 191 15.4k

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All Works

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Sperandii, Marta Gaia, Ilona Knollová, Jiří Danihelka, et al.. (2025). Half a Century of Temperate Non‐Forest Vegetation Changes: No Net Loss in Species Richness, but Considerable Shifts in Taxonomic and Functional Composition. Global Change Biology. 31(1). e70030–e70030. 4 indexed citations
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Lepš, Jan, et al.. (2025). Resistance and Resilience of Species Composition: Thirty Years of Experimental Mismanagement and Subsequent Restoration in a Species Rich Meadow. Ecology and Evolution. 15(2). e70923–e70923. 2 indexed citations
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Bazzichetto, Manuele, Marta Gaia Sperandii, Caterina Penone, et al.. (2024). Biodiversity promotes resistance but dominant species shape recovery of grasslands under extreme drought. Journal of Ecology. 112(5). 1087–1100. 19 indexed citations
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Pan, Xiaobin, et al.. (2024). The convex relationship between plant cover and biomass: Implications for assessing species and community properties. Journal of Vegetation Science. 35(4). 1 indexed citations
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Segrestin, Jules, et al.. (2024). Why are plant communities stable? Disentangling the role of dominance, asynchrony and averaging effect following realistic species loss scenario. Journal of Ecology. 112(8). 1832–1841. 5 indexed citations
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Cubino, Josep Padullés, Pavel Fibich, Jan Lepš, Milan Chytrý, & Jakub Těšitel. (2023). Do threatened species occur in species-rich vegetation?. Preslia. 95(2). 297–310.
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Lepš, Jan, et al.. (2023). Methods of species pool determination as predictors of survival in seeding and transplanting experiments. Functional Ecology. 37(7). 1870–1883. 2 indexed citations
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Cuchietti, Aníbal, Vojtěch Kolář, Janez Kermavnar, et al.. (2021). Shift from trait convergence to divergence along old‐field succession. Journal of Vegetation Science. 32(2). 22 indexed citations
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Klimešová, Jitka, et al.. (2021). Are belowground clonal traits good predictors of ecosystem functioning in temperate grasslands?. Functional Ecology. 35(3). 787–795. 22 indexed citations
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Bello, Francesco de, Zoltán Botta‐Dukát, Jan Lepš, & Pavel Fibich. (2020). Towards a more balanced combination of multiple traits when computing functional differences between species. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(3). 443–448. 159 indexed citations
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Šmilauer, Petr & Jan Lepš. (2015). Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data Using Canoco 5, 2nd Edition. African Journal of Range and Forage Science. 32(4). 289–292–289–292. 4 indexed citations
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Kelemen, András, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Marie Konečná, et al.. (2015). Net outcome of competition and facilitation in a wet meadow changes with plant's life stage and community productivity.. Preslia. 87(4). 347–361. 14 indexed citations
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Lanta, Vojtěch, et al.. (2014). Sown species richness and realized diversity can influence functioning of plant communities differently. Die Naturwissenschaften. 101(8). 637–644. 16 indexed citations
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Fibich, Pavel, et al.. (2012). Plant density affects measures of biodiversity effects. Journal of Plant Ecology. 6(1). 1–11. 18 indexed citations
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Lepš, Jan, et al.. (2006). Quantifying and interpreting functional diversity of natural communities: practical considerations matter. Preslia. 78(4). 481–501. 379 indexed citations
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Lepš, Jan & Karel Spitzer. (1990). Ecological determinants of butterfly communities (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) in the Tam Dao Mountains, Vietnam.. 87(3). 182–194. 33 indexed citations

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