David Storch - Curriculum Vitae#
Teaching responsibilities
- Lecturer of courses Animal Ecology, Macroecology, Community Ecology and Ecological Theory
Editorial duties
- Associate editor of journals Ecology Letters and Global Ecology and Biogeography
- Member of editorial boards of Czech journals Vesmír (The Universe) and Nature Conservation Forum
- Editor of the book Storch D., Marquet P.A. & Brown J.H. (eds.) (2007): Scaling biodiversity, Cambridge University Pressauthor *Editor of the book Pokorný P & Storch D., (eds.) 2007: Antropocén (The Anthropocene), Academia, Praha
- Co-author of the textbook Zrzavý J. et al. (eds.) (2009): Evolution: Ein Lese-Lehrbuch, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag
Membership in professional societies and advisory boards
- 2011-2019, and 2022 until present, president of the Czech Societyfor Ecology
- Since 2022 member of scientific board of the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic
- Since 2016 member of advisory board of the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic
- Since 2012 member of the council of Nature Conservation Forum
Other professional experience
- Main organizer of the workshop Scaling biodiversity (Prague, October 2007, organized by the Santa Fe Institute and the Center for Theoretical Study)
- Invited speaker at three Gordon Research Conferences, various other conferences and universities (Yale University, University of Arizona, University of California San Diego etc.)
- Extensive field work in Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia)
- Extensive science popularization activity; more than 100 articles in popular science journals and media, author of four science popularization books in Czech
Publication activity: ~100 papers in journals with IF, 6 books and 16 book chapters
(see profile on http://scholar.google.cz/citations?user=kiRA_4oAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Scientometry for 22 December 2022: 5950 citations, H-index 47)