David Storch

David Storch, Ph.D. (*1970) is interested in general ecological and evolutionary topics, concerning macroecology, evolutionary and community ecology. He studied zoology at Charles University, Prague, and after obtaining a Ph.D. title he became a research fellow at Center for Theoretical Study, a transdisciplinary institute associated with Charles University and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and also an external lecturer at CU and University of South Bohemia (courses Macroecology and biodiversity, Common ecology and community ecology, Mathematical approaches in zoology). In 2002 he was a Royal Society postdoctoral fellow at Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield (U.K.). Author of four books (in Czech), some original scientific papers, and several tens of popular scientific papers. Originally a classical field zoologist, he has slightly moved onto more theoretical, computer-based ecology, and in recent years has started to collaborate with statistical physicists in an attempt to apply their approaches to complex ecological systems. His major research interests comprise mostly determinants of species´ abundances at different spatial scales, scaling relationships in species richness, and evolution of interspecific differences.

Published Research

Storch, David. 2003. Comment on "Global Biodiversity, Biochemical Kinetics, and the Energetic-Equivalence Rule." Science 299, 346b. [PDF] 42 KB

Storch, D. and Sizling, A.L. 2002. Patterns of commonness and rarity in central European birds: reliability of the core-satellite hypothesis within a large scale. Ecography 25: 405-146. [PDF] 323 KB

Storch, D., Gaston, K.J. and Cepak, J. 2002. Pink landscapes: 1/f spectra of spatial environmental variability and bird community composition. The Royal Society: published online. [PDF] 287 KB

Storch, D. and Frynta, D. 2000. Evolution of habitat selection: stochastic acquisition of cognitive clues? Evolutionary Ecology 13: 591-600. [PDF] 169 KB

The papers posted above are not SFI working papers, nor were they funded by SFI. They are solely the work of the author and coauthors, and do not necessarily reflect the research currently being undertaken on the SFI campus.