Mgr. Bc. Klára Friesová, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal details

• Friesová, Klára (born as Klinkovská, Klára)
• Personal webpage: https://klaraklink.github.io
• ORCID: 0000-0002-1644-2140
• Scopus Author ID: 57567408700
• Web of Science ResearcherID: KEZ-9550-2024
• ResearchGate
• Google Scholar
• GitHub

Department

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

Current position

• Researcher

Education

• 2022–2026: Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Doctoral degree programme: Ecological and Evolutionary Biology – Botany. Defence in European Doctorate mode (MUNI Mendel Doctorandus programme), passed summa cum laude.
  Thesis: Changes in vegetation and flora of the Czech Republic
• 2020–2022: Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Master’s degree programme: Botany – Plant Ecology. Graduated with Honours.
  Thesis: Tall-herb vegetation of the south Moravian forest-steppe (in Czech).
• 2019–2023: Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Bachelor’s degree programme: German Language for Education.
• 2017–2020: Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Bachelor’s degree programme: Ecological and Evolutionary Biology. Graduated with Honours.
  Thesis: Vegetation characteristics of the geographically distinct floral elements of the Slavkov region (in Czech).

Previous positions

• 2022-present: Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, position: Researcher.

Teaching Activities

• Lecturer: Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
  2025 – present: Data manipulation and visualisation in R (semestral course)
  2024 – present: Field course of geobotany (5 days)
  2023–2024: Data analysis in community ecology (semestral course)
  
• Supervision:
  Co-supervisor of 1 Bachelor's (defended) and 1 Master's Thesis

Memberships of scientific societies

• 2022 – present: Member, European Vegetation Survey (EVS, http://euroveg.org/)
• 2023 – present: Member, The Ecological Society for Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Gesellschaft für Ökologie für Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz, GfÖ, https://gfoe.org/en/)
• 2025 – present: Member, International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS, https://www.iavs.org/)
  Since 2026, I serve as a Steering Committee member for the EcoInformatics Working Group within IAVS. (https://www.iavs.org/page/working-groups_ecoinformatics)

Internship and stays for the purpose of study or work

• 2024: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany (3 months)
• Hierarchical spatial modelling for applied population and community ecology. Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, 24–27 June 2024.
• 2024/01/03 – 2024/03/27: Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Erasmus+, DEU
  • Zahraniční pracovní stáž na univerzitě Martina Luthera v Halle zaměřená na analýzu opakovaných fytocenologických snímků z České republiky.

Integration and community service

• 2024: Session chair: Temporal biodiversity change analyses to support sustainable land management and conservation. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Freising, Germany, 9–13 September 2024.
• Regularly reviewing manuscripts submitted to journals in the disciplines of ecology, biodiversity conservation and vegetation ecology, e.g., Biological Conservation, Journal of Applied Ecology, Ecological Informatics, Applied Vegetation Science, Journal of Vegetation Science.

Awards

• Vojtěch Jarošík Award for the publication Klinkovská et al. 2024, Biol. Conserv. (2nd place)
• Rector’s Award for excellent students of doctoral degree programmes (2025)
• Dean’s Award for a collective of outstanding students (2023)
• The project of the dissertation thesis was awarded Brno Ph.D. Talent Scholarship (2022)
• 2nd place in the Competition of student theses related to the environment and ecology in the South Moravian Region (Master's thesis), 2022
• 2nd place in the poster competition at the 30th Conference European Vegetation Survey in Bratislava, 9–13 May 2022
• 1st place in the Competition of student theses related to the environment and ecology in the South Moravian Region (Bachelor's thesis), 2020

Major Publications

• KLINKOVSKÁ, Klára; Marta Gaia SPERANDII; Ilona KNOLLOVÁ; Jiří DANIHELKA; Michal HÁJEK; Petra HÁJKOVÁ; Zdenka HROUDOVA; Martin JIROUŠEK; Jan LEPS; Jana NAVRATILOVA; Tomáš PETERKA; Petr PETRIK; Karel PRACH; Klara REHOUNKOVA; Jaroslav ROHEL; Vojtěch SOBOTKA; Michal VAVRA; Helge BRUELHEIDE a Milan CHYTRÝ. Half a Century of Temperate Non-Forest Vegetation Changes: No Net Loss in Species Richness, but Considerable Shifts in Taxonomic and Functional Composition. Global Change Biology. Oxford: Wiley, 2025, roč. 31, č. 1, s. "e70030", 17 s. ISSN 1354-1013. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70030. URL info
• FRIESOVÁ, Klára; Irena AXMANOVÁ; Dariia BOROVYK; Mirjana ĆUK; Branislav KOPČAN; Milan VALACHOVIC; Adam T CLARK a Milan CHYTRÝ. Vegetation remains, specialist species fade: changes in Pannonian sand grasslands. PRESLIA. CZECH BOTANICAL SOC, 2025, roč. 97, č. 4, s. 613-635. ISSN 0032-7786. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2025.613. URL info
• KLINKOVSKÁ, Klára; Marta Gaia SPERANDII; Bohumil TRAVNICEK a Milan CHYTRÝ. Significant decline in habitat specialists in semi-dry grasslands over four decades. Biodiversity and Conservation. Springer, 2024, roč. 33, č. 1, s. 161-178. ISSN 0960-3115. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02740-6. URL info
• KLINKOVSKÁ, Klára; Michael GLASER; Jiří DANIHELKA; Zdeněk KAPLAN; Ilona KNOLLOVÁ; Petr NOVOTNÝ; Petr PYŠEK; Marcela ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ; Jan WILD a Milan CHYTRÝ. Dynamics of the Czech flora over the last 60 years: Winners, losers and causes of changes. Biological Conservation. Elsevier, 2024, roč. 292, April, s. 1-14. ISSN 0006-3207. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110502. URL info
• KLINKOVSKÁ, Klára; Anna KUČEROVÁ; Štěpánka PUSTKOVÁ; Jaroslav ROHEL; Karolína SLACHOVÁ; Vojtěch SOBOTKA; Daniel SZOKALA; Jiří DANIHELKA; Martin KOČÍ; Eva ŠMERDOVÁ a Milan CHYTRÝ. Subalpine vegetation changes in the Eastern Sudetes (1973-2021): Effects of abandonment, conservation management and avalanches. Applied Vegetation Science. Hoboken: Wiley, 2023, roč. 26, č. 1, s. 1-19. ISSN 1402-2001. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12711. URL info

2026/07/08