Miroslav Svoboda

19.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
155 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Miroslav Svoboda is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Miroslav Svoboda has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 76 papers in Insect Science and 69 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Miroslav Svoboda's work include Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (75 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (48 papers) and Forest ecology and management (47 papers). Miroslav Svoboda is often cited by papers focused on Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (75 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (48 papers) and Forest ecology and management (47 papers). Miroslav Svoboda collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, Germany and United States. Miroslav Svoboda's co-authors include Thomas A. Nagel, Radek Bače, Pavel Janda, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Rupert Seidl, Jan Wild, Manfred J. Lexer, Giorgio Vacchiano, Darío Martin‐Benito and Dominik Thom and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Miroslav Svoboda

149 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Forest disturbances under climate change

2017 1.8k citations Rupert Seidl, Dominik Thom et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Suitability of close-to-nature silviculture for adapting temperate European forests to climate change

2014 325 citations Jürgen Bauhus, Manfred J. Lexer et al. profile →
Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Europe: State of Knowledge and Ways Forward for Management

2021 270 citations Miroslav Svoboda, Rupert Seidl et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Miroslav Svoboda Czechia	42	3.8k	3.3k	2.5k	1.7k	1.5k	155	6.8k
Timo Kuuluvainen Finland	50	4.3k 1.1×	3.5k 1.0×	3.2k 1.3×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	145	7.1k
Anthony W. D’Amato United States	41	4.9k 1.3×	3.5k 1.1×	1.8k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	237	6.7k
Brian J. Palik United States	46	5.9k 1.5×	5.0k 1.5×	2.5k 1.0×	2.8k 1.6×	1.0k 0.7×	227	8.6k
Daniel Kneeshaw Canada	45	4.5k 1.2×	3.7k 1.1×	1.9k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	167	6.4k
S. Ellen Macdonald Canada	44	3.0k 0.8×	3.3k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	2.4k 1.3×	552 0.4×	168	6.7k
David I. Forrester Germany	51	5.2k 1.4×	6.1k 1.8×	946 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	126	8.5k
Thomas A. Nagel Slovenia	28	2.5k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	999 0.6×	947 0.6×	57	4.1k
Christopher W. Woodall United States	41	3.9k 1.0×	3.3k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	763 0.5×	205	6.2k
G.M.J. Mohren Netherlands	38	3.6k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	604 0.2×	1.2k 0.7×	885 0.6×	141	5.7k
John B. Bradford United States	49	5.8k 1.5×	4.0k 1.2×	657 0.3×	2.7k 1.6×	1.6k 1.1×	191	8.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Miroslav Svoboda

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Miroslav Svoboda

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Hofmeister, Jeňýk, Garrett W. Meigs, Josef P. Halda, et al.. (2025). Biodiversity in primary vs. managed forests: Biological legacies of old living and large dead trees drive lichen diversity. Forest Ecosystems. 14. 100374–100374.

Hofmeister, Jeňýk, Martin Mikoláš, Arne Buechling, et al.. (2024). Exploring the multiple drivers of alpha and beta-diversity dynamics in Europe’s primary forests: Informing conservation strategies. Forest Ecology and Management. 571. 122229–122229. 1 indexed citations

Jiang, Yumei, William Marchand, Miloš Rydval, et al.. (2024). Drought resistance of major tree species in the Czech Republic. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 348. 109933–109933. 13 indexed citations

Asbeck, Thomas, Daniel Kozák, Yoan Paillet, et al.. (2024). Temporal Development of Microhabitats on Living Habitat Trees in Temperate European Forests. Ecosystems. 27(5). 690–709. 2 indexed citations

Keith, Heather, Annemiek I. Stegehuis, Yumei Jiang, et al.. (2024). Tree structure and diversity shape the biomass of primary temperate mountain forests. Forest Ecosystems. 11. 100215–100215. 5 indexed citations

Plavcová, Lenka, Jan Tumajer, Jan Altman, et al.. (2024). High Inter‐Specific Diversity and Seasonality of Trunk Radial Growth in Trees Along an Afrotropical Elevational Gradient. Plant Cell & Environment. 48(3). 2285–2297.

Svitok, Marek, Martin Mikoláš, Jeňýk Hofmeister, et al.. (2024). Sustaining forest biodiversity: Exploring the effect of long-term natural disturbance dynamics on contemporary lichen communities in primary forest ecosystems. Forest Ecosystems. 11. 100214–100214. 3 indexed citations

Hofmeister, Jeňýk, Václav Pouska, Martin Mikoláš, et al.. (2023). Old-growth forests with long continuity are essential for preserving rare wood-inhabiting fungi. Forest Ecology and Management. 541. 121055–121055. 6 indexed citations

Matula, Radim, et al.. (2023). Shifts in intra-annual growth dynamics drive a decline in productivity of temperate trees in Central European forest under warmer climate. The Science of The Total Environment. 905. 166906–166906. 11 indexed citations

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Kameniar, Ondrej, et al.. (2023). Spruce- and beech-dominated primary forests in the western Carpathians differ in terms of forest structure and bird assemblages, independently of disturbance regimes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13(1). 47–59. 2 indexed citations

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Fukasawa, Yu, Václav Pouska, Radek Bače, et al.. (2023). Bark beetle outbreaks in Picea abies stands are associated with changes in wood-inhabiting fungal communities and seedling establishment on logs. Fungal ecology. 68. 101328–101328. 4 indexed citations

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Bače, Radek, Jeňýk Hofmeister, Lucie Vítková, et al.. (2023). Response of habitat quality to mixed severity disturbance regime in Norway spruce forests. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(7). 1352–1363. 8 indexed citations

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Begović, Krešimír, Jonathan S. Schurman, Marek Svitok, et al.. (2022). Large old trees increase growth under shifting climatic constraints: Aligning tree longevity and individual growth dynamics in primary mountain spruce forests. Global Change Biology. 29(1). 143–164. 17 indexed citations

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Hofmeister, Jeňýk, Marek Svitok, Martin Mikoláš, et al.. (2021). The impact of natural disturbance dynamics on lichen diversity and composition in primary mountain spruce forests. Journal of Vegetation Science. 32(5). 14 indexed citations

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Kuosmanen, Niina, Vojtěch Čada, Richard C. Chiverrell, et al.. (2020). Integration of dendrochronological and palaeoecological disturbance reconstructions in temperate mountain forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 475. 118413–118413. 12 indexed citations

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Lábusová, Jana, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Pavel Janda, et al.. (2019). Patterns of forest dynamics in a secondary old-growth beech-dominated forest in the Jizera Mountains Beech Forest Reserve, Czech Republic. iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry. 12(1). 17–26. 6 indexed citations

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Latifi, Hooman, Steven C. Hill, Jan Wild, et al.. (2018). Application of optical unmanned aerial vehicle-based imagery for the inventory of natural regeneration and standing deadwood in post-disturbed spruce forests. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 39(15-16). 5288–5309. 27 indexed citations

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Seidl, Rupert, Dominik Thom, Markus Kautz, et al.. (2017). Forest disturbances under climate change. Nature Climate Change. 7(6). 395–402. 1833 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pouska, Václav, Miroslav Svoboda, & Jan Lepš. (2013). Co-occurrence patterns of wood-decaying fungi on Picea abies logs: does Fomitopsis pinicola influence the other species?. Polish Journal of Ecology. 61(1). 17 indexed citations

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Svoboda, Miroslav, et al.. (2006). Biomass and element pools of selected spruce trees in the catchments of Plešné and Čertovo Lakes in the Šumava Mts.. Journal of Forest Science. 52(10). 482–495. 10 indexed citations

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