Storch David

Prof., Ph.D.
Born June 18, 1970 in Prague

Ecology – macroecology, biodiversity, evolutionary ecology, ecological theory
Member of Learned Society since 2018

Educational and professional preparation

2013 Professor (ecology,Charles University)
2006 Associate professor in (ecology, Charles University)
1998 PhD in Zoology (Faculty of Science, Charles University)
1993 MSc in Special biology and ecology (Faculty of Science, Charles University)

Employment and academic positions

since 1998 Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University (since 2008 director)
since 2004 Department of Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University (professor)
external lecturer at Department of Zoology, Biological faculty of the University of South Bohemia
2002-2004 international fellow of the Santa Fe Institute
2002 Royal Society fellow at the Biodiversity and Macroecology Group (led by Kevin Gaston), Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK

Membership in selected domestic scientific bodies

since 2011 president of the Czech Ecological Society
since 2012 member of the committee „Fórum ochrany přírody“
since 2012 member of the advisory board of the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic
2011 member of government expert panel on „Sustainability of functioning of natural resources“
2008-2013 member of the panel „Animal and Plant Ecology“ of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
member of editorial boards of journals Vesmír and Fórum ochrany přírody

Membership and positions in selected international organizations and societies

editor of Ecology Letters
editor of Global Ecology and Biogeography
since 2014 member of ERC panel LS8 „Evolutionary, population and environmental biology“

Notable awards

2015 Award of the president of the Czech Science foundation for the project „Macroecology beyond species richness: reconciling ecological and evolutionary processes driving spatial variation of diversity“

Selected publications

Storch D., Bohdalková E. & Okie J. (2018). The more-individuals hypothesis revisited: the role of community abundance in species richness regulation and the productivity-diversity relationship. Ecology Letters 21: 920-937.
Šímová I., Storch D. (2017). The enigma of terrestrial primary productivity: measurements, models, scales and the diversity-productivity relationship. Ecography 40: 239-252.
Keil P., Storch D., Jetz W. (2015). On the decline of biodiversity due to area loss. Nature Communications, 6: 8837. DOI:10.1038/ncomms9837.
Storch D., Keil P. & Jetz W. (2012). Universal species-area and endemics-area relationships at continental scales. Nature 488: 78-81.
Harte J., Smith A.B. & Storch D. (2009): Biodiversity scales from plots to biomes with a universal species-area curve. Ecology Letters, 12: 789-797.
Šizling A.L., Storch D., Šizlingová E., Reif J. & Gaston K.J. (2009): Species-abundance distribution results from a spatial analogy of central limit theorem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., 106: 6691-6695.
Storch D., Šizling A.L., Reif J., Polechová J., Šizlingová E. & Gaston K.J. (2008): The quest for a null model for macroecological patterns: geometry of species distributions at multiple spatial scales. Ecology Letters 11: 771-784.
Storch D., Evans K. L. & Gaston K. J. (2005): The species-area-energy relationship. Ecology Letters 8: 487-492.
Zrzavý J., Burda H., Storch D., Begallová S. & Mihulka S. (2017): Jak se dělá evoluce: Labyrintem evoluční biologie. Dokořán, Praha.
Storch D., Marquet P.A. & Brown J.H. (eds.) (2007): Scaling biodiversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

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