Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
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Metal(loid)s and their bioaccessibility in urban soils from residential areas of a medieval mining town
original article
open access
published version
2025
,Environmental Geochemistry and Health
,47
(3)
In historic mining towns, where mining activities were abandoned many decades or even centuries ago, legacy contaminations can be remobilized and redispersed, representing a threat for the environment and human health. ...
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High Inter-Specific Diversity and Seasonality of Trunk Radial Growth in Trees Along an Afrotropical Elevational Gradient
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Plant, Cell & Environment
,48
(3)
Understanding mechanisms driving tropical tree growth is essential for comprehending carbon sequestration and predicting the future of tropical forests amid rapid deforestation. We conducted a natural experiment in Mount ...
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Between- versus within-species variation in plant-soil feedback relates to different functional traits, but exudate variability is involved at both scales
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Functional Ecology
,38
(5)
Plant-soil feedback-feedback from plant-induced changes in soil properties to plant fitness-is increasingly shown to drive the maintenance of local plant diversity at both interspecific and intraspecific levels. A robust ...
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Small-molecule activators of NRF1 transcriptional activity prevent protein aggregation
original article
open access
published version
2025
,Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy
,183
(February)
Intracellular protein aggregation causes proteotoxic stress, underlying highly debilitating neurodegenerative disorders in parallel with decreased proteasome activity. Nevertheless, under such stress conditions, the ...
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Jag1 insufficiency alters liver fibrosis via T cell and hepatocyte differentiation defects
original article
open access
published version
2024
,EMBO Molecular Medicine
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(11)
Fibrosis contributes to tissue repair, but excessive fibrosis disrupts organ function. Alagille syndrome (ALGS, caused by mutations in JAGGED1) results in liver disease and characteristic fibrosis. Here, we show that ...
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The effects of temperature on plasticity, shape symmetry and seasonal variation in the freshwater benthic green microalga Micrasterias thomasiana
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Aquatic Ecology
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(3)
Desmids are usually abundant in shallow peatland pools. In these localities, water temperature is closely linked to seasonal fluctuations in air temperature, so with increasing temperature extremes in temperate ecosystems, ...
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Non-Native, Non-Naturalised Plants Suffer Less Herbivory Than Native Plants Across European Botanical Gardens
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Diversity and Distributions
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(12)
AIM: The enemy release hypothesis states that the invasion success of non-native species is partly due to their escape from natural enemies, e.g., herbivores. Large-scale studies of herbivory using multiple species across ...
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Attributing the effects of climate change and forest disturbance on runoff using distributed modeling and indicators of hydrological alteration in Central European montane basins
original article
open access
published version
2025
,Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
,57
(Neuvedeno)
This study examines the impacts of climate warming and forest disturbances on hydrological alterations in montane headwater basins. Using the MIKE SHE distributed hydrological model, scenario-based simulations assessed ...
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Income Fluctuations and Subjective Well-being: The Mediating Effects of Occupational Switching and Remittances
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Journal of Happiness Studies
,25
(8)
Does money bring happiness? To answer this question, I study the consequences of income fluctuations caused by commodity price changes on well-being patterns in regions specializing in export agriculture. Using nationally ...
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Persistence Over Millennia Through Extreme Clonal Longevity: Phylogenomic Insight Into History of One of the World's Rarest Plant Species
original article
open access
published version
2025
,Journal of Biogeography
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(1)
Aim: The evolutionary history of European alpine plant species with medium to large geographical ranges is relatively well explored. Here, we investigate the genetic structure and diversity of an extremely narrow endemic ...
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Socioeconomic and health predictors for food insecurity, and implications for dietary inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Czechia
abstract in conference proceedings
open access
published version
2024
,Basel
,S. Karger
,Obesity Facts
,17
(Suppl. 1)
Background: Food insecurity is a profound public health concern. It is affected by social determinants of health and leads to malnutrition and hence poor health. COVID-19 impacted people disproportionately and exacerbated ...
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Health inequality and protective factors for post COVID-19 condition among older adults in Europe
abstract in conference proceedings
open access
published version
2023
,Oxford
,Oxford University Press
,European Journal of Public Health
Background:COVID-19 affected people and countries disproportionately and continues to impact health of people. The aim of thisstudy was to investigate protective health and social factors for post-COVID conditions in adults ...
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Socioeconomic and health predictors for food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Czechia
abstract in conference proceedings
open access
published version
2023
,Oxford
,Oxford University Press
,European Journal of Public Health
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(Supplement_2)
COVID-19 impacted people disproportionately and exacerbated preexisting social and health inequalities. The aim of this study was to understand how socioeconomic and health condition affected food security in Czechia during ...
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Homoplastic versus xenoplastic evolution: exploring the emergence of key intrinsic and extrinsic traits in the montane genus Soldanella (Primulaceae)
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Plant Journal
,118
(3)
Specific ecological conditions in the high mountain environment exert a selective pressure that often leads to convergent trait evolution. Reticulations induced by incomplete lineage sorting and introgression can lead to ...
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Plant trait and vegetation data along a 1314 m elevation gradient with fire history in Puna grasslands, Perú
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Scientific Data
,11
(1)
Alpine grassland vegetation supports globally important biodiversity and ecosystems that are increasingly threatened by climate warming and other environmental changes. Trait-based approaches can support understanding of ...
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Fertility, economic development, and remittances in post-communist times
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Journal of Maps
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This study investigates fertility responses to remittances across developed and developing countries in post-communist times. We first collected fertility, remittances, and income statistics over the 1995-2020 period and ...
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A renal mycosis of roach (Rutilus rutilus) caused by the Aureobasidium pullulans
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Medical Mycology Case Reports
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(June)
Spontaneous mycosis caused by Aureobasidium pullulans is documented in roach in a cyprinid-prevalent water reservoir in Czechia. Gross pathological lesions included pale gills and splenomegaly, as revealed during necropsy ...
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Food insecurity is associated with poor mental health and health risk behaviors in Czechia
abstract in journal
open access
published version
2024
,Oxford
,Oxford University Press
,European Journal of Public Health
,34
(Issue Supplement 3, November 2024)
Background: Food insecurity (FI) is one of the social determinants of health and a profound public health concern because it leads to malnutrition and hence poor health. COVID-19 impacted people disproportionately and ...
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Tetraploidy in the Boettger's dwarf clawed frog (Pipidae: Hymenochirus boettgeri) from the Congo indicates non-conspecificity with the captive population
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
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Cytogenetics can be used as a tool to study the evolution of polyploidy and taxonomy. Here we focus on aquatic African pipids, dwarf clawed frogs (Hymenochirus). Our study reveals that dwarf clawed frogs, present for decades ...
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The biomolecular markers for the personalized prediction of the treatment effect in patients with head and neck cancer: pilot study
abstract in e-form
open access
accepted version
2024
,Edinburgh
R42 Anotace anglickyThe clinical utility of liquid biopsies as diagnostic, predictive and prognostic biomarkers has been shown for several cancers. Our study analyses the dynamics of human papillomavirus (HPV) cell cell-free ...
