František Máliš homepage

My research interest is in diversity and species composition of temperate forests and their dynamics driven by human impact and global environmental changes. I study the ongoing processes during climate change and biodiversity crisis to develop novel approaches in forest management which can mitigate negative effects of environmental drivers on forest ecosystems.

As Associate professor I teach the subjects Ecology, Phytosociology and forest typology, Disturbance ecology, Adaptation of forest ecosystems to global environmental changes, Vegetation ecology.  

If you are interested in doing PhD, feel free to contact me or check the current list of PhD thesis of our department. When you would like to join our team for certain period, please see also posibilities to apply for scholarhip for international students, researchers and scientists supported by the National Scholarhip Programme of the Slovak Republic. click here 

Science popularization outcomes (in Slovak and Czech language)

Discussion in Slovak Television about forest ecosystems in Slovakia link

Talk at Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information about impacts of environmental changes on forest biodiversity link

Máliš F. 2017: Zachovanie druhovej rozmanitosti lesov Slovenska v čase globálnych environmentálnych zmien. In: Bulletín „Správy z výskumu lesníckej fakulty pre prax“, Technická univerzita vo Zvolene: 17–25 link

Máliš F., Canullo R., Hédl R. 2015: Lesy centrálních Apenin – biodiverzita v kontextu historického a současného managementu, Živa, 63: 112-115 link

Veda na dosah - článok na tému Ako zachovať druhovú rozmanitosť lesov Slovenska? link

Článok v Časopise TU Zvolen na tému zmien v rozšírení drevín na Slovensku v dôsledku klimatickej zmeny (Ročník 24., číslo 1/2016, str. 19) link

Veda na dosah - rozhovor ku publikovaniu práce Staude et al. 2020 s názvom Nová štúdia: Lesy v Európe doplácajú na viac dusíka link

Scientific journals, conference papers, monographs

2024

Sanczuk et al. 2024: Unexpected westward range shifts in European forest plants link to nitrogen deposition. Science, 386(6718), 193-198. link

Moreno-García et al. 2024: Long-term nitrogen deposition reduces the diversity of nitrogen-fixing plants. Science Advances, 10(42), eadp7953. link

Csölleová et al. 2024: Post-harvest recovery of microclimate buffering and associated temporary xerophilization of vegetation in sub-continental oak forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 572, 122238. link

Kemppinen et al. 2024: Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(6), e13834. link

Chianucci et al. 2024: Silvicultural regime shapes understory functional structure in European forests, Journal of Applied Ecology, link

Wen et al. 2024: Predicting Trajectories of Temperate Forest Understorey Vegetation Responses to Global Change, Forest Ecology and Management 566, e122091 link

Dobor et al. 2024: The interacting effect of climate change and herbivory can trigger large-scale transformations of European temperate forests, Global Change Biology 30:e17194 link

Landuyt et al. 2024: Combining multiple investigative approaches to unravel functional responses to global change in the understorey of temperate forests. Global Change Biology 30: e17086 link

Padulles et al. 2024: Evaluating plant lineage losses and gains in temperate forestunderstories: a phylogenetic perspective on climate change andnitrogen deposition. New Phytologist, link

Smyčková et al. 2024: Herb layer species richness declines with heterogeneity of the forest structure in primary beech-dominated forests while proportion of forest specialists increases. Forest Ecology and Management, 556, 121728. link

Kusbach, A., Pecina, V. (eds.) 2024: Basics of Forest Ecology and Management: To Sustainable Forest Management in Mongolia. Brno: Mendel University in Brno. link

Knollová et al. 2024: ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe. Journal of Vegetation Science, 35(2), e13235. link

De Schuyter et al. 2024: Declining potential nectar production of the herb layer in temperate forests under global change, Journal of Ecology 112: 832-847 link

2023

Máliš et al. 2023. Microclimate variation and recovery time in managed and old-growth temperate forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 342, 109722. link

Oravec et al. 2023. Endangered Forest Communities in Central Europe: Mapping Current and Potential Distributions of Euro-Siberian steppic woods with Quercus spp. in South Slovak basin, Biology 12 (7), 910, link

Kotrík et al. 2023: Half a century of herb layer changes in Quercus-dominated forests of the Western Carpathians, Forest Ecology and Management 544,121151 link 

Burrascano et al. 2023. Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?. Biological Conservation, 284, 110176. link

Tinya et al. 2023. A synthesis of multi-taxa management experiments to guide forest biodiversity conservation in Europe. Global Ecology and Conservation, e02553. link

Haesen et al. 2023: ForestClim – Bioclimatic variables for microclimate temperatures of European forests. Global Change Biology link

Verdu et al. 2023: RecruitNet: A global database of plant recruitment networks, Ecology, link

Wiezik et al. 2023: Transformation of West-Carpathian primeval woodlands into high-altitude grasslands from as early as the Bronze, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany link

2022

Segar et al. 2022: Divergent roles of herbivory in eutrophying forests, Nature Communications, 7837 link

Hrivnák R. et al. 2022: Competition for soil resources forces a trade-off between enhancing tree productivity and understorey species richness in managed beech forests, Science of the Total Environment 849, 157825 link

Koutecký T et al. 2022: Disturbance history drives current compositional and diversity patterns of primary Picea abies (L.) Karst. forest vegetation. Forest Ecology and Management, 520, 120387 link

Lembrechts J. J. et al. 2022: Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology 28: 3110-3144 link

Staude I. R. et al. 2022: Directional turnover towards larger‐ranged plants over time and across habitats. Ecology Letters 25: 466–482  link 

2021

Haesen S. et al. 2021: ForestTemp – sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests, Global Change Biology 27: 6307–6319, link 

Caron M. et al. 2021: Thermal differences between juveniles and adults increased over time in European forest trees, Journal of Ecology 201: 3944–3957, link

Vangansbeke P. et al. 2021: ClimPlant: realized climatic niches of vascular plants in European forest understoreys, Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 1183–1190, link

Perring M. P. et al. 2021: “Lianification” or liana invasion – is there a difference?, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 19 (7): 377–378 link

Máliš F. et al. 2021: Historical charcoal burning and coppicing suppressed beech and increased forest vegetation heterogeneity. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32:e12923 link

Máliš F. et al. 2021: Short-Term Dynamics of Vegetation Diversity and Aboveground Biomass of Picea abies (L.) H. Karst. Forests after Heavy Windstorm Disturbance. Forests 12(1):97. link  

Depauw L. et al. 2021: Evaluating structural and compositional canopy characteristics to predict the light‐demand signature of the forest understorey in mixed, semi‐natural temperate forests. Applied Vegetation Science, 24:e12532. link 

Ujházyová M. et al. 2021: Syntaxonomical revision of order Fagetalia sylvaticae Pawłowski ex Pawłowski et al. 1928 in Slovakia, Biologia link

2020

Zellweger F. et al. 2020: Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming, Science 368 (6492): 772-775 link 

Lembrechts J. J. et al. 2020: SoilTemp: a global database of near‐surface temperature, Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15123

Staude I. R. et al. 2020: Replacements of small-by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe’s temperate forest biome. Nature Ecology & Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1176-8

Maes S.L. et al. 2020: Plant functional trait response to environmental drivers across European temperate forest understorey communities, Plant Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.13082

Depauw L. et al. 2020: Light availability and land‐use history drive biodiversity and functional changes in forest herb layer communities, Journal of Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13339

Landuyt D. et al. 2020: Drivers of aboveground understorey biomass and nutrient stocks in temperate deciduous forests. Journal of Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13318

Wiezik M. et al. 2020: The last Glacial and Holocene history of mountain woodlands in the southern part of the Western Carpathians, with emphasis on the spreading of Fagus sylvatica, Pylanology, https://doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2019.1690066

Seidling, W. et al. 2020: Comparing observer performance in vegetation records by efficiency graphs derived from rarefaction curves. Ecological Indicators, 109, 105790. link

Perring M. P. et al. 2020: Increasing liana frequency in temperate European forest understories is driven by ivy, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 18 (10): 550–557 link

Slezák M. et al. 2020: Vegetation classification of acidophilous oak forests in Slovakia, Tuexenia 40: 33-52 

Wiezik M. et al. 2020: Western-Carpathian mountain spruce woodlands at their southern margin: natural or anthropogenic origin? Preslia 92: 115–135 

2019

Hrivnák, R. et al. 2019: Phytosociological approach to scree and ravine forest vegetation in Slovakia. Annals of Forest Research DOI:10.15287/afr.2019.1355

Depauw, L. et al. 2019: A general framework for quantifying the effects of land-use history on ecosystem dynamics. Ecological Indicators 107, 105395.

Zellweger, F. et al. 2019: Seasonal drivers of understorey temperature buffering in temperate deciduous forests across Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28: 1774-1786. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12991

Hájková, P. 2019: Spruce representation in zonal woodlands may be overestimated when using pollen spectra from peatlands. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 271, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104104

Hrivnák R. et al. 2019: Zaujímavé nálezy ruderálnych, segetálnych a zavlečených cievnatých rastlín z územia stredného Slovenska III, Bull. Slov. Bot. Spoločn., 41(2): 203–219

Hrivnák R. et al. 2019: Zaujímavé nálezy ohrozených cievnatých rastlín z územia stredného Slovenska: komentovaný zoznam údajov z rokov 2017–2018, Bull. Slov. Bot. Spoločn., 41(1): 53–67

Maes, S. L. et al. 2019: Environmental drivers interactively affect individual tree growth across temperate European forests. Global Change Biology 25: 201–2017

Maes, S. L. et al. 2019: Litter quality, land-use history, and nitrogen deposition effects on topsoil conditions across European temperate deciduous forests, Forest Ecology and Management 433: 405–418 link

2018

Maes, S. L. 2018: Environmental drivers interactively affect individual tree growth across temperate European forests. Global Change Biology. link

Verheyen, K. et al. 2018: Observer and relocation errors matter in resurveys of historical vegetation plots. Journal of Vegetation Science 29: 812–823 link

Perring M. P. et al. 2018: Understanding context dependency in the response of forest understorey plant communities to nitrogen deposition. Environmental Pollution 242: 1787–1799 link

De Lombaerde E. et al. 2018: Responses of competitive understorey species to spatial environmental gradients inaccurately explain temporal changes. Basic and Applied Ecology 30: 52–64 link

Perring M. P. et al. 2018: Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies. Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.14030 link

Hrivnák R., Wiezik M.,  Máliš F. in Eliáš P. ml. (ed.) 2018: Zaujímavejšie floristické nálezy. Bulletin SBS 40: 82–97 

2017

Cudlin P. et al. 2017: Drivers of treeline shift in different European mountains, Climate Research 73: 135-150 link

Fleischer P. et al. 2017: Forest ecosystem services affected by natural disturbances, climate and land-use changes in the Tatra Mountains, Climate Research 73: 57-71 link 

Ujházy K et al. 2017: Overstorey dynamics controls plant diversity in age-class temperate forests, Forest Ecology and Management 391: 96-105 link

Verheyen K. et al. 2017: Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research. BioScience 67: 73-83 link

Konôpka B. et al. 2017: Carbon stock in aboveground biomass of vegetation at the High Tatra Mts. twelve years after disturbance. Central European Forestry Journal 63: 142–151 link

Máliš F. 2017: Restoration of plant diversity in oak coppices transformed to high forests under global environmental threats, Book of Abstracts, IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress 2017, Freiburg: 479 link

Máliš F. 2017: Trvalé plochy - kľúč pre pochopenie dopadov globálnych zmien na biodiverzitu, In: Sitková Z., Pavlenda P. (eds.): Dlhodobý ekologický výskum a monitoring lesov: súčasné poznatky a výzvy do budúcnosti. Zvolen, Národné lesnícke centrum – Lesnícky výskumný ústav Zvolen: 77–80 link

2016

Ujházyová M 2016: Diversity of beech forest vegetation in the Eastern Alps, Bohemian Massif and the Western Carpathians. Preslia 88: 435-457 link

Máliš F. 2016: Life stage, not climate change, explains observed tree range shifts. Global Change Biology 22: 1904-1914 link

Slezák M. et al. 2016: Syntaxonomy and ecology of acidophilous beech forest vegetation in Slovakia. Phytocoenologia 46: 69-88 link

2015

Bernhardt-Römermann M. et al. 2015: Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity vary across spatial scales. Global Change Biology 21: 3726–3737 link

Máliš F., Fábry R., Vodálová A. 2015: Vývoj vegetácie smrekových lesov s rôznym manažmentom po vetrovej kalamite. In Fleischer P., Homolová Z., Šturcel M.: Štúdie o Tatranskom národnom parku, Technická univerzita vo Zvolene, 11 (44): 207–217 link

2014

Vladovič, J., Merganič, J., Máliš, F., Križová, E., Ujházy, K., Vodálová, A., Pôbiš, I., Bošeľa, M., Pavlenda, P. 2014: Reakcia diverzity lesných fytocenóz na zmenu edaficko-klimatických podmienok Slovenska. Technická univerzita vo Zvolene, 165 s. link

Valachovič, M., Hegedüšová, K., Kanka, R., Kliment, J., Kollár, J., Máliš, F., Piscová, V., Senko, D., Slezák, M., Ujházy, K., Ujházyová, M., Žarnovičan, H., 2014: Forest communities of the Vihorlat Mts. (Eastern Slovakia). Phytopedon (Bratislava) 13: 13–41 link

2013

Máliš F., Jarolímek I., Kliment J., Slezák M. (2013): Forest Vegetation with Festuca drymeja in Slovakia – Syntaxonomy and Ecology, Phyton (Horn, Austria) 53 (2): 265-288 link

Konôpka B., Pajtík J., Šebeň V., Bošeľa M., Máliš F., Priwitzer T., Pavlenda P., 2013: The Research Site Vrchslatina – an experimental design and the main aims. Lesnícky časopis - Forestry Journal, 59(3): 203–213 link

Máliš F., Konôpka B., Maľová M. 2013: Post-harvest biomass stock and productivity of Calamagrostis epigejos community under beech and spruce forest stand, Lesnícky časopis – Forestry Journal, 59(3): 197–202 link

Bošeľa M., Máliš F., Kulla L., Šebeň V., Deckmyn G. 2013: Ecologically based height growth model and derived raster maps of Norway spruce site index in the Western Carpathians, European Journal of Forest Research 132: 691-705 link

2012

Máliš F., Ujházy K., Vodálová A., Barka I., Čaboun V., Sitková Z. 2012: Impact of Norway spruce planting on herb vegetation in the mountain beech forests on two bedrock types, European Journal of Forest Research 131: 1551-1569 link

2011

Máliš F. 2011: Changes in plant species composition of oak forests in Poľana massif (Central Slovakia) after 40 years, Reports of Forestry Research 56 (3): 168-177 link

Vladovič J., Barka I., Lupták I., Bucha T., Máliš F., Merganič J., Kulla L., Šebeň V., Merganičová K., Bošeľa M., Ujházy K. 2011: Štruktúra a diverzita lesných ekosystémov na Slovensku. Zvolen, Národné lesnícke centrum – Lesnícky výskumný ústav, 252 s. link

Barka I., Vladovič J., Máliš F. 2011: Landform classification and its application in predictive mapping of soil and forest units. In: Ružička, J., Pešková, K. (eds.): Proceeding - Symposium GIS Ostrava 2011, 24. -26. 1. 2011, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava link

2010

Máliš F., Vladovič J., Čaboun V., Vodálová A. 2010: The influence of Picea abies on herb vegetation in forest plant communities of the Veporské vrchy Mts, Journal of Forest Science 56 (2): 58 – 67 link

Máliš F. 2010: Fytocenologické a pôdnoekologické pomery lesných spoločenstiev juhozápadnej časti Veporských vrchov, Dizertačná práca, 157 (PDF text a tabuľky)

2008

Vladovič J., Máliš F. 2008: The Database of Typological Representative Plots of Forest Ecosystems in Slovakia. In: Plant-Enivronment-Trait Linkages, Perspectives on Functional Community Ecology Research, 7th meeting on vegetation databases, 5. - 7. 3. 2008, Oldenburg : Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, 2008, 25 link

Máliš F., Vladovič J., Vodálová A. 2008: Lesné ekosystémy jedľovo-bukového vegetačného stupňa z hľadiska lesníckej typológie, Phytopedon 7 (1): 55 – 62

2005

Máliš, F., Rudaš, B., Kontriš, J., 2005: Pôdne pomery lesných spoločenstiev v oblasti masívu Bykovo. In: Zborník referátov zo 4. pôdoznaleckých dní – Čingov 2005. Výskumný ústav pôdoznalectva a ochrany pôdy Bratislava, pp. 226–231.

Personal information

Born 5th November 1979 in Lučenec, Slovak Republic

Education

Ph.D.    2004 – 2010, Technical University in Zvolen, Faculty of Forestry, Thesis: Phytoceonological and soil-ecological conditions of forest plant communities in south-western part of Veporské vrchy Mts. 

M.Sc.    1999 – 2004, Technical University in Zvolen, Faculty of Forestry

Work positions

researcher 
    01/2007 – ongoing, National Forest Centre, Forest Research Institute 

researcher
    06/2012 – 09/2014, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Department of Vegetation Ecology, Brno, Czech Republic 

researcher, since 2017 Assistant Professor
    07/2012 – ongoing, Technical University in Zvolen, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Phytology

Other work experience

International cooperation

since 2008, member of Expert Panel for Ground VegetationandBiodiversity Assessment within International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (ICP-Forests)

since 2013, national coordinator of forestREplot initiative

since 2019, participation in SoilTemp initiative

COST Actions

- member of COST Action ES1203 Enhancing the resilience capacity of SENSitive mountain FORest ecosystems under environmental change (SENSFOR)
- substitute member of management committee COST Action FP1301 Innovative management and multifunctional utilization of traditional coppice forests – an answer to future ecological, economic and social challenges in the European forestry sector (EuroCoppice)
- substitute member of management committee COST Action CA 16208 Knowledge conversion for enhancing managment of European riparian ecosystems and services  (CONVERGES)
- member of management committee COST Action CA22155 - Network for forest by-products charcoal, resin, tar, potash (EU-PoTaRCh)

        
Fellowships

11/2018–02/2019 scholarship focusing of forest microclimate at University of Cambridge, Department of Plant Sciences, Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, United Kingdom

07–08/2014 scientific fellowship at University of Camerino, Italy focusing on biodiversity assessment of coppices  

02–03/2011 Short Term Scientific Mission within Cost Action ECHOES (Expected Climate Change and Options for European Silviculture) at Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany focusing on species distribution shifts along altitudinal gradient
    

Other activities

Member of Slovak Botanical Society