CURRICULUM VITAE (last update 12 August 2015) M.Sc. Jan Mládek, Ph.D. Name Date of birth 18 th November 1978 Marital status married, three children (Emily, Adam and Olivia) Home address Návojná 185, CZ-76332, Czech Republic Work address Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences Faculty of Science Palacký Šlechtitelů 241/27 CZ-78371 Olomouc Holice Czech Republic http://ekologie.upol.cz/ Personal web E mail http://grasslandecology.euweb.cz jan.mladek@upol.cz mladekjan@seznam.cz Educational background 2003 2011 PhD study at the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký PhD Thesis: Selective livestock grazing and its consequences for functional vegetation properties and agronomic services of species-rich grasslands Supervisor: RNDr. Martin Duchoslav, PhD., Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc Advisors: Prof. RNDr. Michal Hejcman, Ph.D. et Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ing. Vilém Pavlů both at Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic Opponents: Prof. RNDr. Jan Lepš, CSc., Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice & Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre AS CR, České Budějovice, Czech Republic Assoc. Prof. Michal Hájek, Ph.D., Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno & Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany AS CR, Brno, Czech Republic Dr. Pablo Cruz, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique UMR 1248 AGIR, Castanet Tolosan, France 1997 2002 Master studies of Protection and Creation of the Environment at the Faculty of Science, Palacký Master thesis: Impact of grazing on grasslands of the White Carpathians Mts. 1
Employment 2015 research assistant at the Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc 2012 research assistant at the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice 2007 2014 research assistant at the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc 2003 2007 self-employed (trade certificate: Research and progress in the field of natural science) 2003 research assistant in Research Institute for Cattle Breeding, Rapotín Stay abroad 2014 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Toulouse, France (Postdoctoral fellowship Dr. Pablo Cruz, Dr. Claire Jouany) 2012 The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (Stapledon Fellowship prof. Pakeman) 2000 2001 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden (Erasmus prof. Dlouhý) Graduated Master students 2014 M.Sc. Ondřej Nezval (The possibilities of using hemiparasites and nitrogenfixers for suppression of strongly competitive grass species), Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Palacký 2014 M.Sc. Linda Hrnčiříková (Effect of long-term application of grassland management on functional vegetation properties and community phenological progression in species-rich grasslands), Department of Botany, Palacký 2011 M.Sc. Michaela Hermanová (Impact of management on species composition and plant functional characteristics of grasslands), Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Palacký 2010 M.Sc. Jana Juráková (Phenological development of species-rich grasslands under different management), Department of Botany, Palacký University Olomouc 2010 M.Sc. Vendula Křivánková (Plant functional traits as indicators of different grassland management types awarded in Dean s prize as the best thesis in the section of Biology), Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Palacký 2007 M.Sc. Petr Pavelčík (Extensive grazing in relation to time-space heterogeneity of grassland), Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Palacký 2007 M.Sc. Miroslav Dvorský (Sheep diet selection and food preference in species rich grasslands), Department of Botany, Palacký 2007 M.Sc. Jana Richterová (Soil seed bank in grasslands and recruitment of seedlings under different management), Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Palacký 2
Graduated Bachelor students 2014 B.Sc. Tomáš Ritzka (Influence of seed inoculation with rhizobacteria on the establishment of legumes in grasslands dominated by Calamagrostis epigejos), Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Palacký University Olomouc 2008 B.Sc. Štěpán Slížek (Role of secondary metabolits in plant life-strategies on pastures), Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Palacký 2007 B.Sc. Vendula Křivánková (Plant functional types in relation to grassland management), Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Palacký 2005 B.Sc. Jana Richterová (Significance of generative reproduction for plant survival in grassland communites), Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Palacký Projects 2015 2019 Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA ČR TH01030300) New technologies landscaping slopes of highway and road corridors to enhance the long-term effectiveness of specific territorial nature protection, principal investigator 2014 2016 Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR 14-26779P) Searching for the Achilles heel of Calamagrostis epigejos. Can we suppress the expansive grass by hemiparasitic Rhinanthus spp.?, co-investigator 2012 2015 Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR P505/12/1390) Biology of hemiparasitic Rhinanthoid Orobanchaceae: scaling up from physiology to community level processes, member of the research group 2013 Ministry of Agriculture (5400/2013-MZE-13212) Plant diversity in seminatural grasslands new challenge, principal investigator 2011 2013 Grant Agency of the Czech University of Life Sciences (CIGA 42110/1313/3114) Nutrient cycling in species-rich grassland: influence of management type, soil and meteorological characteristics and effect postharvest leaching of nutrients, member of the research group 2007 2011 Ministry of the Environment (MŽP RPV SP/2D3/179/07) Functional types of plants and their diversity as indicators of various management of grasslands, co-investigator 2009 2010 Norway grants (CZ0138) Creation of a comprehensive monitoring system of the natural environment of the Moravian-Silesian Region, member of the research group 2006 2008 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP-GEF 2255/1705) Conservation of biological diversity of Carpathian Mountain grasslands in the Czech Republic through targeted application of new EU funding mechanisms, member of the research group 2003 2005 Ministry of the Environment (MŽP VaV 620/11/03) Grazing as a management tool for maintenance of seminatural grasslands in protected areas, principal investigator 2000 2003 Ministry of the Environment (MŽP VaV610/10/00) Impact of grazing on biodiversity of semi-natural grasslands in the White Carpathian Landscape Protected Area, member of the research group 3
Reviewer for international journals PLoS ONE (IF 3.7) Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (IF 2.8) Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (IF 2.5) Biologia (IF 0.5) Reviewer for Czech national journals Východočeský sborník přírodovědný - Práce a studie Reviewer for Grant Agencies Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA ČR) Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR) National Agency for Agricultural Science (NAZV) Teaching at the Palacký University Functional approach in vegetation science (2/0, summer semester, 2013 ) Resource ecology (2/0, summer semester, 2013 ) Nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems (2/0, winter semester, 2012 ) Vegetation science (2/0, winter semester, 2012 ) Phytosociology (2/0, winter semester, 2012 ) Field exercises in ecology (0/1, summer semester, 2005 ) Botanical excursion (0/1, summer semester, 2004 2006) System and evolution of higher plants (0/2, summer semester, 2003 2005) Training in Biostatistics (0/2, winter semester, 2003 2005) Determination of species in genus Salix and Carex (2/0, winter semester, 2003) Publication activity 1. Papers in scientific journals with impact factor Mládková P, Mládek J, Hejduk S, Hejcman M, Cruz P, Jouany C & Pakeman RJ (2015) High-nature-value grasslands have the capacity to cope with nutrient impoverishment induced by mowing and livestock grazing. Journal of Applied Ecology 52: 1073 1081 Mudrák O, Mládek J, Blažek P, Lepš J, Doležal J, Nekvapilová E & Těšitel J (2014) Establishment of hemiparasitic Rhinanthus spp. in grassland restoration: lessons learned from sowing experiments. Applied Vegetation Science 17: 274 287 Mládek J, Mládková P, Hejcmanová P, Dvorský M, Pavlů V, De Bello F, Duchoslav M, Hejcman M & Pakeman RJ (2013) Plant trait assembly affects superiority of grazer s foraging strategies in species-rich grasslands. PLoS ONE 8(7): e69800 Mládek J, Hejcman M, Hejduk S, Duchoslav M, Pavlů V (2011) Community seasonal development enables late defoliation without loss of forage quality in semi-natural grasslands. Folia Geobotanica 46: 17 34 2. Papers in proceedings from the scientific conferences Mládek J, Těšitel J, Adamec V & Horník J (2014) Native root-hemiparasitic plants can suppress expansive grass Calamagrostis epigejos: experimental evidence from different habitats using Rhinanthus alectorolophus. Book of abstracts from 9th SER Symposium, 2 8 August, Oulu, Finland 4
Těšitel J, Mládek J, Těšitelová T, Horník J & Adamec V (2013) Looking for Achilles heel of Calamagrostis epigejos. Can we suppress the expansive grass by hemiparasitic Rhinanthus spp.? Book of abstracts from 3 rd Symposium on the biology of non-weedy parasitic plants, 12 15 September 2013, Namur, Belgium Mládek J, Hejduk S, Hejcman M, Duchoslav M, Pavlů V, Mládková P (2012) Postponing of the first harvest in semi-natural grasslands: decline in nutrient concentrations? Grassland Science in Europe 17: 376 378 (24 th EGF General Meeting, 3 7 June 2012, Lublin, Poland) Mládek J, Juráková J (2011) Using phenological progression and phenological complementarity to reveal potential for late grassland harvest. Grassland Science in Europe 16: 139 141 (16 th EGF Symposium, 28 31 August 2011, Raumberg- Gumpenstein, Austria) Mládek J, Mládková P, Hejcman M, Hejduk S, Pavlů V, Duchoslav M (2011) Grassland response to long-term management and amounts of nutrients in standing biomass. Book of abstracts from 54 th IAVS Symposium, 20 24 June 2011, Lyon, France Mládek J, Hejcman M, Hejduk S (2010) Ve kterých typech travních porostů je možný posun sklizně do letních měsíců, aniž by se snížila kvalita píce? (Which grassland types enable postponing of the first harvest until summer without loss of forage quality?) Sborník abstraktů z konference: "Louky: biodiverzita a management", Třeboň 20. 21. 3. 2010 (in Czech) Mládek J (2006) Vliv pastvy na druhovou rozmanitost rostlin (Influence of livestock grazing on plant species richness). In: Kolektiv autorů (eds), Pastva ovcí a koz jako prostředek údržby trvalých travních porostů v chráněných územích, pp 61 65, Svaz chovatelů ovcí a koz v ČR a MZLU v Brně, Seč, 10. 11. 11. 2006 (in Czech) Mládek J (2004) Prostorová heterogenita travinobylinné vegetace a pattern defoliace (Spatial heterogeneity of vegetation and pattern of defoliation). In: Herben T, Hrouda L, Chytrý M, Marhold K, Münzbergová Z, Prach K (eds), Doktorandské inspirace v botanice. Sborník abstraktů z konference ČBS, Praha, 20. 21. 11. 2004 (in Czech) 3. Books Gaisler J, Pavlů V, Mládek J, Hejcman M, Pavlů L (eds) (2011) Obhospodařování travních porostů ve vztahu k agro-environmentálním opatřením: Otázky a odpovědi (Management of permanent grasslands in relation to agri-environmental measures: Questions and answers). VÚRV Praha, 24 pp. (in Czech) Mládek J, Pavlů V, Hejcman M, Gaisler J (eds) (2006) Pastva jako prostředek údržby trvalých travních porostů v chráněných územích (Grazing as a tool for maintenance of grasslands in protected landscape areas). VÚRV, Praha, 104 pp. (in Czech) 4. Chapters in books Hejcmanová P, Mládek J (2012) Diet selection of herbivores on species rich pastures. In: Hendriks BP, Agricultural Research Updates - Volume 2, p. 167-206, Nova Science Publishers, ISBN 978-1-61470-191-0 Mládek J (2008) Vliv pastvy na druhovou diverzitu (Impact of grazing on species diversity). In: Jongepierová I (ed), Louky Bílých Karpat (Grasslands of the White Carpathian Mountains), ZO ČSOP Bílé Karpaty, Veselí nad Moravou, pp 355 (in Czech with English summary) 5
Mládek J (2008) Typy travinobylinné vegetace ovlivněné pastvou (Vegetation types influenced by grazing). In: Jongepierová I (ed), Louky Bílých Karpat (Grasslands of the White Carpathian Mountains), ZO ČSOP Bílé Karpaty, Veselí nad Moravou, pp 356 362 (in Czech with English summary) Hejduk S, Mládek J (2008) Fenologické změny kvality píce druhově bohatých trvalých travních porostů (Phenological changes of forage quality in seminatural species-rich grasslands). In: Jongepierová I (ed), Louky Bílých Karpat (Grasslands of the White Carpathian Mountains), ZO ČSOP Bílé Karpaty, Veselí nad Moravou, pp 363 367 (in Czech with English summary) Dvorský M, Mládek J (2008) Pastevní preference ovcí v druhově bohatých společenstvech (Grazing preferences of sheep in species-rich communities). In: Jongepierová I (ed), Louky Bílých Karpat (Grasslands of the White Carpathian Mountains), ZO ČSOP Bílé Karpaty, Veselí nad Moravou, pp 368 369 (in Czech with English summary) Pavelčík P, Mládek J (2008) Pastevní aktivita skotu v členitém terénu a heterogenní vegetaci (Grazing activity of cattle in rugged terrain and heterogeneous vegetation). In: Jongepierová I (ed), Louky Bílých Karpat (Grasslands of the White Carpathian Mountains), ZO ČSOP Bílé Karpaty, Veselí nad Moravou, pp 370 372 (in Czech with English summary) Jongepierová I, Deván P, Devánová K, Piro Z, Hájek M, Konvička O, Mládek J, Spitzer L, Poková H (2008) Údržba travních porostů (Grassland management). In: Jongepierová I (ed), Louky Bílých Karpat (Grasslands of the White Carpathian Mountains), ZO ČSOP Bílé Karpaty, Veselí nad Moravou, pp 433 444 (in Czech with English summary) Mládek J (2008) Monitoring vlivu různých managementových zásahů na trvalé travní porosty (Monitoring of the impact of different management regimes on grasslands). In: Piro Z, Wolfová J (eds), Zachování biodiverzity karpatských luk, FOA - Nadační fond pro ekologické zemědělství, Praha, pp 33 36 (in Czech with English summary) 5. Papers in other journals Mládek J (2004) The impact of cattle and sheep grazing on grasslands in Landscape protected areas of the Czech Republic. La Canada 18: 18 Mládek J (2002) Pastva pro zemědělce a ochranáře (Livestock grazing: view of farmers and conservationists). Bílé-Biele Karpaty 4 (in Czech) 6