Petr Kuneš

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Charles University, Faculty of Science

Czech Republic

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Dr. Petr Kuneš is an Associate Professor at Charles University, Faculty of Science, in the Czech Republic. His research focuses on environmental history, plant diversity, and climatic changes, with recent publications exploring topics such as forest dynamics, human impact on ecosystems, and the evolution of agriculture in Central Europe. Dr. Kuneš employs multi-proxy reconstructions to enhance understanding of ecological changes across various landscapes.

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Historické využití území a jeho význam pro budoucí ochranu významných druhů podél bavorsko-české hranice

Open Date: 2020-01-01

Close Date: 2022-12-01

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Temperate mountain forest dynamics: their long-term drivers and diversity at the continentality gradient

Open Date: 2020-01-01

Close Date: 2022-12-31

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Holocene disturbance dynamics in European Picea abies (Norway spruce) forests: Implications for conservation and management

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2018-12-31

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Pollen-based land-cover reconstruction - model testing and its implications for Holocene environmental change studies

Open Date: 2012-01-01

Close Date: 2015-12-31

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Long-term development of cultural landscape of Central Bohemia as a co-evolution of human impacts and natural processes

Open Date: 2007-01-01

Close Date: 2011-12-31

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Norway Spruce dynamics in NE Poland at the Middle-Late-Holocene transition: Insights from quantitative landcover reconstruction

Origin and Late Holocene evolution of Lake Morske<acute accent> oko in a climatic and environmental context in the Eastern Carpathians

Multi-proxy temperature and environmental reconstruction during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene in the Bohemian Forest, Central Europe

Original plant diversity and ecosystems of a small, remote oceanic island (Corvo, Azores): Implications for biodiversity conservation

Original plant diversity and ecosystems of a small, remote oceanic island (Corvo, Azores): Implications for biodiversity conservation

The absence of disturbances promoted Late Holocene expansion of silver fir <i>(Abies alba)</i> in the Bohemian Forest

Forest composition and density shaped long-term fire regimes and catchment-lake interactions in the temperate-mixed mountain forests of Central Europe

New radiocarbon dates point to the early evolution of resilient agriculture among Central Europe’s first farmers

Detecting ecological signatures of long-term human activity across an elevational gradient in the Sumava Mountains, Central Europe

Well-preserved Norway spruce needle phytoliths in sediments can be a new paleoenvironmental indicator

Climate-related soil saturation and peatland development may have conditioned surface water brownification at a central European lake for millennia

Development of high diversity beech forest in the eastern Carpathians

Modelling the location of interglacial microrefugia for cold-adapted species: insights from the terrain-mediated distribution of Rhododendron tomentosum in a temperate region in central Europe

Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before <i>Homo sapiens</i>

Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires

Holocene plant diversity dynamics show a distinct biogeographical pattern in temperate Europe

Comparative biology of four Rhodanthidium species (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) that nest in snail shells

Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years

Mountain aquatic Isoëtes populations reflect millennial-scale environmental changes in the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem, Central Europe

Changes in species composition and diversity of a montane beetle community over the last millennium in the High Tatras, Slovakia: Implications for forest conservation and management

Integration of dendrochronological and palaeoecological disturbance reconstructions in temperate mountain forests

The role of climate-fuel feedbacks on Holocene biomass burning in upper-montane Carpathian forests

Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe

Collaborators (21)

Zsuzsa Lisztes-Szabó

Rui Elias

Attila Csík

John Boyle

Peter Appleby

Jan Roleček

Anna Šolcová

Joanna Święta-Musznicka

Nick Porch

Oliver Heiri

Suzette G. A. Flantua

Ondřej Mottl

Tara Lewis

Sarah Ivory

Nicola Whitehouse

Veronika Brychova

Helena Svitavska Svobodova

Julian Wiethold

Agnieszka Wacnik

Simon Haberle

Thomas Giesecke

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