Welcome to the webpage of
Petr Kuneš
I am an associate professor at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic). I teach and do research the Department of Botany in the field of quaternary palaeoecology.
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Disturbance and diversity through deep time
Editors of Science apparently liked our new approach of using pollen and plant ecological data to determine disturbance-diversity relationship over ...
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Special feature Vegetation History in Journal of Vegetation Science
Journal of Vegetation Science published a Special Feature (featuring my photo at the cover page) focused on vegetation history, which ...
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Our paper highlighted in Nature
Our paper on "Using historical ecology to reassess the conservation status of coniferous forests in Central Europe" published in Conservation ...
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A Few Words
About Me
I am a biologist and ecologist interested in the long-term dynamics of nature.
I like looking into ecosystem changes covering various time scales in the Quaternary, studying processes beyond our direct observation and experimentation.
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Šumavské lesy již nehoří
Šumava jako ideální území pro studium dlouhodobé dynamiky lesů Šumava představuje jedno z nejzalesněnějších území střední Evropy. Stav zdejších lesů ...
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Řekni kde ty kytky jsou…
Během čtvrtohor se sever evropského kontinentu díky velkým klimatickým změnám opakovaně pokrýval mohutným ledovcem. Než k tomu došlo, obývala Evropu ...
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Nedokončené příběhy
Úvahy nad publikací Neklidné časy – (P. Pokorný, vydalo nakladatelství Dokořán 2011) Dagmar Dreslerová - Alžběta Danielisová - Petr Kuneš ...