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Milan Chytrý
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Plant community ecology | Botany | Vegetation science | Natural habitats | Macroecology | Biodiversity | Conservation | Global change | Scientific publishing || Professor @ Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
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Interested in a PhD in European wetland flora and vegetation? See details here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r5ob6...
February 5, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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New interactive global maps of 31 plant traits were prepared by Daniel Lusk, based on plant distribution data from GBIF and sPlot, plant trait data from TRY, and various satellite-based products.
Map viewer: global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-...
Article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
February 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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An interview - rozhovor
English: www.sci.muni.cz/.../succes.....
Česky: www.sci.muni.cz/.../rozhovor...
January 29, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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🌿 Webinar for IAVS Young Scientists 🌿

🎤 Talk: Writing Scientific Papers in Vegetation Science
📣Prof. Milan Chytrý
📅 January 28th, 2026
⏰ 9:00 AM CET
💻 YS’ Zoom Room
✏️ Registration Form: tinyurl.com/youngscienti...

#VegSci #IAVS #YoungScientists
January 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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In our new article in Nature Cities, led by Susanne Tautenhahn, we used our recently published European datasets of plant indicator values, linked them to citizen science data, and mapped environmental conditions for Europe and, at a finer resolution, for 326 cities.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442...
January 16, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Super interesting global meeting of biogeographers - TIBS conference in the cathedral-like auditorium of the Aarhus University, Denmark.
January 8, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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A map of 260 EUNIS habitat types for Europe has been prepared under the leadership of Sara Si-Moussi and Wilfried Thuiller and published in Scientific Data. It shows the most probable habitat for each 100-m pixel.
Article: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Map data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
December 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The website for the 68th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science has been launched:
2026gijon.iavs-meetings.org
Many thanks to Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and his colleagues for this invitation.
See you in June in Gijón, on the northern coast of Spain.
December 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The website for the 34th European Vegetation Survey conference in Clermont-Ferrand, France, 7-11 September 2026, is now open: 34evs2026.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Further evidence of the declining quality of endangered natural habitats has just been published in a new Preslia article on vegetation resurvey by Klára Friesová and collaborators.
Open-access article: doi.org/10.23855/pre...
Infographic by NotebookLM
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Temperate deciduous forests are found in three global regions. We compared taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of forest plant communities among these regions in a new Ecography article led by Javier Loidi and Josep Padullés Cubino:
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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The first European classification of vegetation in seasonally drained salt lakes, led by Svitlana Iemelianova from our Vegetation Science Group, and supported by an MSCA4Ukraine grant. Our findings will change the standard European vegetation classification system.
doi.org/10.1111/avsc...
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
November 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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From the seminar dedicated to the legacy of Sandro Pignatti. Pier Luigi Nimis is showing the Olivetti typewriter on which Pignatti wrote the Flora d'Italia (1982). This monograph consisted of three volumes with a total of nearly 2300 printed pages.
October 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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The event "Celebration the legacy of Sandro Pignatti" is now happening at the Botanical Garden of Rome organised by La Sapienza University of Rome

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October 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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A wonderful day celebrating the legacy of Sandro Pignatti. At the end of the event, a tree was planted by the Director of the Botanical Garden of Rome, Prof. Fabio Attorre, in memory of Prof. Pignatti.

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October 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I am deeply honored and humbled to share that I have been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.
October 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Our new article in Nature Plants, led by César Leblanc, introduces Pl@ntBERT, an AI model inspired by language models like ChatGPT, but trained on > 1M vegetation plots from the EVA database.
Article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/Cesar...
GitHub: github.com/cesar-leblan...
October 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Postdoc position in coastal ecology at the University of Oldenburg, suitable for vegetation ecologists, application deadline 28 October
uol.de/en/job/postd...
Postdoctoral researcher in coastal ecology (DFG Research Unit DynaCom) // University of Oldenburg
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October 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Our new online application EVA-MAP provides interactive maps of vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive and ReSurveyEurope databases. It enables filtering the plots by various criteria. More details can be found in this new article in the IAVS Bulletin:
www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytr...
October 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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The new issue of the IAVS Bulletin features four articles about two remarkable men who had a huge impact on European and global vegetation science, and who also greatly shaped my own scientific journey: John Rodwell and Sandro Pignatti.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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In our new article, Zdenka Preislerová and I review the trends in describing new syntaxa of European vegetation from the early 20th century to the publication of the EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016) and beyond.
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🔗Open access: doi.org/10.1111/avsc...
September 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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"Durancie" is an old plum variety commonly planted in the Moravian Carpathians. It is ripening now, in September. For generations, these plums have been used to create unique regional delicacies. By growing and harvesting them in our garden, I am helping to keep this local tradition alive. 😀
September 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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In our new Nature Communications article led by Rashmi Paudel, we show that plant species that spread within their native range have a higher probability of becoming established outside their native range.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63293-6
🔗Sharable PDF link: rdcu.be/eEmQr
September 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM