Petr Pyšek

88.0k citations

488 papers · 49.8k indexed · 27 hit papers · h-index 105

Impact in

Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.01%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Ecological Modeling top 0.01%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change

Papers in

Nature and Landscape Conservation 298
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 297
Ecological Modeling 74
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 74

Co-authors: David M. Richardson Vojtĕch Jaros̆ı́k Jan Pergl Montserrat Vilà Philip E. Hulme Marcel Rejmánek Karel Prach Martin Hejda
Journals: Biological Invasions (46 papers)Preslia (36 papers)NeoBiota (33 papers)Diversity and Distributions (31 papers)Global Ecology and Biogeography (20 papers)
Partner nations: Czechia Germany South Africa

In The Last Decade

Petr Pyšek

474 papers receiving 46.9k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Why Are Invasive Plants Successful? 2023 · 130 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Annual Review of Plant Biology
2021 Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2020 Global Change Biology
2020 Nature Communications
2016 Forest Ecology and Management
2015 Global Change Biology
2014 Conservation Biology
2012 Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2012 Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2011 Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2011 Annals of Botany
2011 Global Change Biology
2011 Ecology Letters
2010 Annual Review of Environment and Resources
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 Journal of Ecology
2009 Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2009 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
2008 Journal of Applied Ecology
2008 Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2007 Diversity and Distributions
2007 Journal of Applied Ecology
2006 Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment
2005 Global Change Biology
2004 Taxon
2000 Diversity and Distributions
1995 Medical Entomology and Zoology

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Co-authors

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1	The Effects of Protected Areas in Nepal as a Barrier Against Plant Invasions Are Associated With Lower Propagule Pressure and Less Intensive Disturbance Diversity and Distributions ·Rob Henderson, Martin Hejda, Petr Pyšek	2025	0
2	Climate‐Driven Vegetation Characteristics Shape Phytophagous and Carnivorous Insect Diversity in South African Savannahs Journal of Biogeography ·N. S. Kasatkina, Frédéric Caste, А.В. Орешина, 保二宮, Jan Čuda, Llewellyn C. Foxcroft, 佐藤和美, (unknown), Sandra MacFadyen, Tomasz W. Pyrcz, Matthew Stalley, Ondřej Sedláček, David Štorch, Petr Pyšek, Robert Tropek	2024	1
3	Impact of invasive plants on vegetation in protected areas of Nepal Biological Invasions ·Rob Henderson, Mila V. Raiko, Petr Pyšek	2024	5
4	Impacts of native and alien plant dominants at different spatial scales NeoBiota ·Alessandra Kortz, Tukiainen Ps, Jan Pergl, David Chaves Ferreira, Petr Petřík, Jiřı́ Sádlo, Michaela Vítková, Samuel Wilmot, Petr Pyšek	2024	1
5	Stage dependence of Elton’s biotic resistance hypothesis of biological invasions Nature Plants ·Kun Guo, Petr Pyšek, Milan Chytrý, Jan Divíšek, Jiayuan Hu, Zdeňka Lososová, Mark van Kleunen, Simon Pierce, Wen‐Yong Guo	2024	12
6	Naturalizations have led to homogenization of the Malesian flora in the Anthropocene Journal of Biogeography ·Luis Ola Daquilema, Pieter B. Pelser, Julie F. Barcelona, S. Tjitrosoedirdjo, 正雄中岫, Mark van Kleunen, Petr Pyšek, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Wayne Dawson, Lahiru S. Wijedasa, Alessandra Kortz, Martin Hejda, Juan Carlos Berrío, Iskandar Zulkarnaen Siregar, Mark Williams	2023	0
7	The naturalized vascular flora of Malesia Biological Invasions ·Luis Ola Daquilema, Pieter B. Pelser, Julie F. Barcelona, S. Tjitrosoedirdjo, 正雄中岫, Mark van Kleunen, Petr Pyšek, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Wayne Dawson, Lahiru S. Wijedasa, Alessandra Kortz, Martin Hejda, Juan Carlos Berrío, Iskandar Zulkarnaen Siregar, Mark Williams	2023	9
8	The poleward naturalization of intracontinental alien plants Science Advances ·Zhijie Zhang, Qiang Yang, Trevor S. Fristoe, Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Bernd Lenzner, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Patrick Weigelt, Marten Winter, Nicol Fuentes, John Kartesz, Misako Nishino, Mark van Kleunen	2023	10
9	Genetic and morphological insights into the Carpobrotus hybrid complex around the world NeoBiota ·Ana Novoa, Heidi Hirsch, María L. Castillo, Susan Canavan, Luís González, David M. Richardson, Petr Pyšek, Морозов Дмитрий Сергеевич, Marcel Legrain, Giuseppe Brundu, Carla M. D’Antonio, Jorge L. Gutiérrez, Xuening Li, Sam Levin, Luís Silva, Johannes J. Le Roux	2023	5
10	A latitudinal gradient in Darwin’s naturalization conundrum at the global scale for flowering plants Nature Communications ·Cecilia Ibarra M., Qiang Yang, Shaopeng Li, Trevor S. Fristoe, Marc W. Cadotte, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Patrick Weigelt, John Kartesz, Misako Nishino, Jan J. Wieringa, Mark van Kleunen	2023	16
11	Musk’s Twitter takeover jeopardizes culturomics Nature ·Ana Novoa, Susan Canavan, Ivan Jarić, Catherine Olufunke Falade, Petr Pyšek	2022	3
12	Anthropogenic and environmental drivers shape diversity of naturalized plants across the Pacific Diversity and Distributions ·和夫志位, Dylan Craven, Patrick Weigelt, Hanno Seebens, Marten Winter, Holger Kreft, Damaris Zurell, Juliano Sarmento Cabral, Franz Essl, Mark van Kleunen, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Tiffany M. Knight	2021	17
13	The ins and outs of acclimatisation: imports versus translocations of skylarks and starlings in 19th century New Zealand Biological Invasions ·Catherine Olufunke Falade, Tim M. Blackburn, Petr Pyšek	2019	6
14	Small genome separates native and invasive populations in an ecologically important cosmopolitan grass Ecology ·Petr Pyšek, Hana Skálová, Jan Čuda, Wen‐Yong Guo, Jan Suda, Jan Doležal, Suman Mia, Carla Lambertini, Magdalena Lučanová, Terezie Mandáková, Lenka Moravcová, Matthew Stalley, Hans Brix, Laura A. Meyerson	2018	47
15	Autofertility and self‐compatibility moderately benefit island colonization of plants Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Mialy Razanajatovo, Mark van Kleunen, Holger Kreft, Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Marten Winter, Patrick Weigelt	2018	23
16	Honoring Harold A. Mooney: Citizen of the world and catalyst for invasion science Biological Invasions ·Daniel Simberloff, Laura A. Meyerson, Petr Pyšek, David M. Richardson	2017	3
17	The compositional similarity of urban forests among the world's cities is scale dependent Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Jun Yang, Frank A. La Sorte, Petr Pyšek, Pengbo Yan, David J. Nowak, Joe R. McBride	2015	51
18	Europe’s other debt crisis caused by the long legacy of future extinctions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Stefan Dullinger, Franz Essl, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Simone Gingrich, Helmut Haberl, Karl Hülber, Vojtĕch Jaros̆ı́k, Fridolin Krausmann, Ingolf Kühn, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Philip E. Hulme	2013	90
19	Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Marten Winter, Oliver Schweiger, Stefan Klotz, Wolfgang Nentwig, Pavlos Andriopoulos, Μαργαρίτα Αριανούτσου, Corina Başnou, Pinelopi Delipetrou, Viktoras Didžiulis, Martin Hejda, Philip E. Hulme, Philip Lambdon, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, David B. Roy, Ingolf Kühn	2009	284
20	Synergy between pathogen release and resource availability in plant invasion Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Dana M. Blumenthal, Charles E. Mitchell, Petr Pyšek, Vojtĕch Jaros̆ı́k	2009	175

About Petr Pyšek

Petr Pyšek is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Insect Science, having authored 488 papers that have together received 49.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (297 papers), Plant and animal studies (198 papers), Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (143 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (74 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (55 papers), Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna (52 papers), Biological Control of Invasive Species (49 papers) and Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies (41 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (26.5k citations), Ecological Modeling (8.0k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (19.8k citations), Insect Science (8.7k citations) and Ecology (18.0k citations). Petr Pyšek has collaborated with scholars based in Czechia, Germany and South Africa. Frequent co-authors include David M. Richardson, Vojtĕch Jaros̆ı́k, Jan Pergl, Montserrat Vilà, Philip E. Hulme, Marcel Rejmánek, Karel Prach, Martin Hejda, Milan Chytrý and Sven Bacher. Their work appears in journals such as Biological Invasions, Preslia, NeoBiota, Diversity and Distributions and Global Ecology and Biogeography.

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