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Jan "Suspa" Leps

  • Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences
    University of South Bohemia
    Branisovska 31, CZ-370 05 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
  • mail: suspa@bf.jcu.cz
  • phone: +420 38 777 2374

Welcome!

This page is here to provide some info about my research activities and other interests, at least those partly related to my work.

If you are looking for macro calculating the Funtional diversity indices click here!

Background

I am trained as plant ecologist. I finished my MS thesis under supervision of Marcel Rejmanek at Charles University, Prague, in 1977 (Spatial pattern of vegetation during secondary succession) and PhD thesis on mathematical modelling in ecology in 1982. From 1983 I was with Department of Biomathematics, Institute of Entomology, Czechoslovak (later on Czech) Academy of Sciences. From 2001, I have been a member of the research team of the Department of Ecology and Nature Conservation. In 1991 I was engaged in foundation of Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Bohemia. By now, I have two joint appointments, the major one at the Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences, where I teach both graduate and undergraduate courses, and minor one in Department of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences. As both institutions reside in the same complex of buildings, this does not make any problem. My previous scientific interests could be seen from my publications.

Recently, I am engaged in the following major projects:

  1. Mechanisms of coexistence of plant species in meadows
  2. Ecological research in rainforest of Papua New Guinea

In all the projects, I am interested also in application of statistical methods.

I got permission to publish an extremely valuable classified bibliography on OLD-FIELD SUCCESSION 1901-1991, compiled by Marcel Rejmánek and Kristina P. Van Katwyk

  • OLD-FIELD SUCCESSION bibliography as pdf

    • Publications of the PhD students' project Plants, insects and vertebrates: an integrated study of ecological and evolutionary interactions on population and ecosystem levels (as pdf).

    I am a member of Suspa's cacophonic orchestra (SUKAS).

    Comment for Czech students (In Czech): Studijní materiály jsou zde.

    Prezentace pracovní skupiny v ppt (pozor, 55Mb) je zde.

    Botanický víkend pro středoškolské učitele.

    Materials for the multivariate course .

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