Mgr. Veronika Kalusová, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal details

• Kalusová, Veronika
• Researcher ID: ORCID: 0000-0002-4270-321X, Scopus Author ID: 35746557200
• Date of birth: 22. 11. 1983, Czech nationality
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Veronika-Kalusova

Department

• Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Czechia

Current position

• Researcher II
  Member of the Vegetation Science Working Group

Education

• 2015: PhD in Biology (Botany), thesis: Alien plant invasions in habitats: intercontinental comparison, (in English). Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Supervisor Prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý Ph.D. Defence date: 16. 4. 2015, grade A (excellent)
  
• 2007: Master's degree in Biology (Systematic Biology and Ecology), thesis: Plant invasions in floodplain habitats of the lower Morava and Dyje rivers, (in Czech). Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia. Supervisor Prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý Ph.D.
• 2006: Bachelor's degree in Biology (Systematic Biology and Ecology), thesis: Habitat preferences of invasive plant species in the floodplain of the lower Morava River, (in Czech). Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia. Supervisor Prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý Ph.D.

Previous positions

• 2009 – 2020
  Researcher, Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
  
• 2020 – present
  Researcher II, Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia

Teaching Activities

• Lecturer
  Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
  2009 – 2015: Plant phylogeny and diversity - practical course, Higher plant phylogeny and diversity - practical course
  

Memberships in scientific societies

• Member of the European Vegetation Survey (EVS, https://euroveg.org/)
• Member of the Czech Botanical Society (ČBS, https://botanospol.cz/en)
• Member of the Czech Society for Ecology (ČSPE, https://www.cspe.cz/en/)
  2019 – 2022: in the revision committee of the Czech Society for Ecology

Internship and stays for the purpose of study or work

• Study stay abroad: University of Liverpool, School of Life Sciences, supervisor Prof. Rob Marrs, Erasmus+
• 2008/01/21 – 2008/06/07: University of Liverpool, Liverpool, GBR

Awards nominations

• 2010: Nomination of paper Kalusová et al. (2009) Determining the important environmental variables controlling plant species community composition in mesotrophic grasslands in Great Britain, Applied Vegetation Science 12: 459–471 for Editors' Award
• 2013 – 2014: Vojtěch Jarošík Award of the Czech Society for Ecology for excellent student publication received for paper Kalusová et al. (2014) Alien species pool influences the level of habitat invasion in intercontinental exchange of alien species, Global Ecology and Biogeography 23: 1366–1375
• 2018: Best Oral Presentation Award received for the talk European anthropogenic, semi-natural and natural habitats as donors of naturalized plant species worldwide at the 10th International Conference on Biological Invasions NEOBIOTA, Dublin, Ireland

Invited talks

• 2017: talk Alien species pool influences levels of habitat invasion at the 6th Conference of the Czech Society for Ecology, Prague, Czech Republic

Reviewing activities

• 2015 – present: Reviewer (for 10 international scientific journals so far), including Global Ecology and Biogeography, Scientific Reports, Biological Invasions, Urban Ecosystems
• 2018 – present: Reviewer of student theses (5 Bachelor theses and 2 Master theses so far)
  Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
  Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Czechia

Major Publications

• KALUSOVÁ, Veronika, Milan CHYTRÝ, Martin VEČEŘA, Jens-Christian SVENNING, Idoia BIURRUN, Kateřina KINTROVÁ, Emiliano AGRILLO, Emanuela CARLI, Klaus ECKER, Emmanuel GARBOLINO, Mária ŠIBÍKOVÁ, Urban ŠILC a Irena AXMANOVÁ. Neophyte invasions in European heathlands and scrub. Biological Invasions. Springer, 2023, roč. 25, č. 6, s. 1739-1765. ISSN 1387-3547. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03005-7. fulltext článku info
• AXMANOVÁ, Irena, Veronika KALUSOVÁ, Jiří DANIHELKA, Jürgen DENGLER, Jan PERGL, Petr PYŠEK, Martin VEČEŘA, Fabio ATTORRE, Idoia BIURRUN, Steffen BOCH, Timo CONRADI, Rosario G. GAVILÁN, Borja JIMÉNEZ‐ALFARO, Ilona KNOLLOVÁ, Anna KUZEMKO, Jonathan LENOIR, Artem LEOSTRIN, Jana MEDVECKÁ, Jesper Erenskjold MOESLUND, Dragica OBRATOV‐PETKOVIC, Jens‐Christian SVENNING, Ioannis TSIRIPIDIS, Kiril VASSILEV a Milan CHYTRÝ. Neophyte invasions in European grasslands. Journal of Vegetation Science. Wiley, 2021, roč. 32, č. 2, s. "e12994", 17 s. ISSN 1100-9233. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12994. URL info
• KALUSOVÁ, Veronika, Josep PADULLES CUBINO, Trevor S. FRISTOE, Milan CHYTRÝ, Mark VAN KLEUNEN, Wayne DAWSON, Franz ESSL, Holger KREFT, Ladislav MUCINA, Jan PERGL, Petr PYŠEK, Patrick WEIGELT, Marten WINTER a Zdeňka LOSOSOVÁ. Phylogenetic structure of alien plant species pools from European donor habitats. Global ecology and biogeography. HOBOKEN: WILEY, 2021, roč. 30, č. 12, s. 2354-2367. ISSN 1466-822X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13387. URL info
• KALUSOVÁ, Veronika, Natálie ČEPLOVÁ, Milan CHYTRÝ, Jiří DANIHELKA, Pavel DŘEVOJAN, Karel FAJMON, Ondřej HÁJEK, Veronika KALNÍKOVÁ, Pavel NOVÁK, Vladimír ŘEHOŘEK, Jakub TĚŠITEL, Lubomír TICHÝ, Tamás WIRTH a Zdeňka LOSOSOVÁ. Similar responses of native and alien floras in European cities to climate. Journal of Biogeography. Wiley, 2019, roč. 46, č. 7, s. 1406-1418. ISSN 0305-0270. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13591. URL info
• LOSOSOVÁ, Zdeňka, Lubomír TICHÝ, Jan DIVÍŠEK, Natálie ČEPLOVÁ, Jiří DANIHELKA, Pavel DŘEVOJAN, Karel FAJMON, Veronika KALNÍKOVÁ, Veronika KALUSOVÁ, Pavel NOVÁK, Vladimír ŘEHOŘEK, Tamás WIRTH a Milan CHYTRÝ. Projecting potential future shifts in species composition of European urban plant communities. Diversity and Distributions. Wiley, 2018, roč. 24, č. 6, s. 765-775. ISSN 1366-9516. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12725. URL info
• ČEPLOVÁ, Natálie, Veronika KALUSOVÁ a Zdeňka LOSOSOVÁ. Effects of settlement size, urban heat island and habitat type on urban plant biodiversity. Landscape and Urban Planning. AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2017, roč. 159, March, s. 15-22. ISSN 0169-2046. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.11.004. URL info
• KALUSOVÁ, Veronika, Natálie ČEPLOVÁ a Zdeňka LOSOSOVÁ. Which traits influence the frequency of plant species occurrence in urban habitat types? Urban Ecosystems. DORDRECHT: Springer, 2017, roč. 20, č. 1, s. 65-75. ISSN 1083-8155. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11252-016-0588-3. URL info
• ČEPLOVÁ, Natálie, Zdeňka LOSOSOVÁ a Veronika KALUSOVÁ. Urban ornamental trees: a source of current invaders; a case study from a European City. Urban Ecosystems. DORDRECHT, 2017, roč. 20, č. 5, s. 1135-1140. ISSN 1083-8155. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11252-017-0665-2. URL info
• KALUSOVÁ, Veronika, Milan CHYTRÝ, Mark VAN KLEUNEN, Ladislav MUCINA, Wayne DAWSON, Franz Sebastian ESSL, Holger KREFT, Jan PERGL, Patrick WEIGELT, Marten WINTER a Petr PYŠEK. Naturalization of European plants on other continents: The role of donor habitats. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. WASHINGTON: NATL ACAD SCIENCES, 2017, roč. 114, č. 52, s. 13756-13761. ISSN 0027-8424. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705487114. fulltext info
• KALUSOVÁ, Veronika, Milan CHYTRÝ, Robert K. PEET a Thomas R. WENTWORTH. Intercontinental comparison of habitat levels of invasion between temperate North America and Europe. Ecology. Ecological Society of America, 2015, roč. 96, č. 12, s. 3363-3373. ISSN 0012-9658. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/15-0021.1. URL info
• KALUSOVÁ, Veronika, Milan CHYTRÝ, Robert K. PEET a Thomas R. WENTWORTH. Alien species pool influences the level of habitat invasion in intercontinental exchange of alien plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Wiley, 2014, roč. 23, č. 12, s. 1366-1375. ISSN 1466-822X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12209. URL info
• KALUSOVÁ, Veronika, Milan CHYTRÝ, John T. KARTESZ, Misako NISHINO a Petr PYŠEK. Where do they come from and where do they go? European natural habitats as donors of invasive alien plants globally. Diversity and Distributions. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, roč. 19, č. 2, s. 199-214. ISSN 1366-9516. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12008. URL info
• KALUSOVÁ, Veronika a Rob H. MARRS. Determining the important environmental variables controlling plant species community composition in mesotrophic grasslands in Great Britain. Applied Vegetation Science. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, roč. 12, č. 4, s. 459-471. ISSN 1402-2001. URL info

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