Education history: (all at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice):

• 1996/9–1999/6: Bc. (Effect of biotically generated heterogeneity on the seedling recruitment in grasslands, supervisor prof. Jan Lepš)
• 1999/9–2002/6: MSc. (Factors influencing the vegetation in the Vltava river valley north of Zlatá Koruna, Czech Republic, supervisor Dr Milan Štech)
• 2002/9–2008/6: PhD (Patterns of vegetation diversity in deep river valleys of the Bohemian Massif, supervisor prof. Milan Chytrý from Masaryk University)

Employment history:

• 2004–2005: Research assistant at the Department of Botany, the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
• 2005–2009: Research assistant at the Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
• 2009–2015: Scientific researcher at the Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
• 2015-2021: Assistant professor at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
• since 2021: Associate professor at the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (澤大衛)

Teaching:

• Current teaching at the National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  
  • Introduction to R for Ecologists (2015-present, every year)
  • Vegetation Ecology (2016-present, every second year)
  • Mastering Research Writing and Publishing in Ecology (2025-present, every second year)
  • Numerical Methods in Community Ecology (2016-present, every year)
  • Methods of Vegetation Survey (2016-present, sometimes)

• Previous teaching at the Masaryk University, Czech Republic
  
  • Data analysis in community ecology (2010-2015)
  • Analysis of community ecology data in R program (2011-2015)
  • Visualization of biological data (2007-2015)
  • Field course of geobotany (with Lubomír Tichý and Ching-Feng Li, 2008-2015)

• Advising Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral theses: 8 successfully defended undergraduate theses (Pavel Brych, 2006; Hana Sekerková, 2009; Markéta Chudomelová, 2011; Tereza Růžičková, 2013; Jaroslav Hruban, 2013; Jana Kučerová, 2014; Ju-Chieh Wu (Luke), 2026; Shu-Ping Wang, 2026), 22 graduate theses (Hana Sekerková, 2011; Markéta Chudomelová, 2013; Dominik Zukal, 2015; Jana Kučerová, 2016; Ren-Mei Ooi (co-advisor), 2018; Yen-Cheng Shen, 2019; Kenneth Huang (co-advisor), 2019; Tsung-Yi Lin, 2019; Po-Yu Lin, 2021; Yi-Nuo Lee, 2021; Kuan-Fu Lin, 2022; Yu-Pei Tseng, 2022; Ching-Lin Huang (Andy), 2022; Chen Ting, 2023; Shuo Wei, 2023; Yi-Mei Wu, 2023; Tsung-Chen Lee, 2023; Yin-Sun Yao (co-advisor), 2024; Hsun-Hung Chu, 2024; Cheng-Rui Yang (Ray), 2025; Yu-Heng Liu, 2026; Yu-Wen Chen, 2026) and 1 PhD thesis (Markéta Chudomelová, 2020). Check the Vegetation Ecology Lab website for the list of students I currently advise (https://www.davidzeleny.net/veglab/doku.php?id=people).

Research activities:

• 2009–2011: Vegetation of the Czech Republic: completion of the national survey of plant communities (GA206/09/0329, co-worker; main investigator: M. Chytrý) www
• 2011–2014: Generalized supervised classification in community ecology (GAP505/11/0732, co-worker, main investigator: L. Tichý) www
• 2012–2015: Beta diversity of plant communities along constrained environmental gradients (GAP505/12/1022, main investigator: D. Zelený) www
• 2016/9–2017/7: Community assembly along stress gradients: effect of cloud frequency and chronic-wind intensity on forest vegetation in Taiwan [壓力梯度上的群落建構：雲霧頻度和恆風強度對台灣森林的影響] (MOST 105-2621-B-002-004, main investigator: D. Zelený) www
• 2017/8-2020/7: Changes in species- and community-level properties of forest vegetation along cloud and chronic-wind gradients in Taiwan [台灣森林中物種以及群聚層級之特質沿著雲霧和強風梯度的變化] (MOST 106-2621-B-002-003-MY3, main investigator: D. Zelený) www
• 2020/8-2023/7: Taxonomic and functional diversity and geographical distribution of the Subtropical Montane Cloud Forest in Taiwan: A multiscale approach [以多尺度方法研究臺灣亞熱帶山地霧林分類與功能多樣性及地理分布] (MOST 109-2621-B-002-002-MY3, main investigator: D. Zelený) www
• 2023/8-2024/7: Effect of chronic wind on taxonomic and trait diversity and composition of forest vegetation in Taiwan [恆風在臺灣對分類與功能多樣性及森林植群組成的影響] (NSTC 112-2621-B-002-004, main investigator: D. Zelený) www
• 2024/8-2025/7: Linking patterns of fog frequency and chronic wind intensity to ecosystem processes in subtropical forests through plant functional traits [透過植物功能形質探討亞熱帶森林中雲霧頻度和恆風強度的模式與生態系統過程之關聯] (NSTC 113-2311-B-002-017, main investigator: D. Zelený) www
• 2025/8-2028/7: Linking ecosystem processes to environmental variables by plant functional traits in subtropical montane rainforest of Taiwan [透過植物功能性狀探討台灣亞熱帶山地霧林中生態過程與環境因子關聯性之研究] (NSTC 114-2311-B-002-016-MY3, main investigator: D. Zelený) www
• 2026/4-2029/3: Invasion Syndromes: transforming the understanding and management of biological invasions [入侵跡象群：改變對於外來種入侵的知識及管理] (NSTC 115-2923-B-002-001-MY3, international collaborative research project, Taiwan's main investigator: D. Zelený) www

Research interests: vegetation ecology, functional ecology, community assembly processes, numerical analysis of community ecology data, the ecology of subtropical forests, vegetation classification, and invasion ecology.

Editorial board: Journal of Vegetation Science (a member of the Editorial Board since 2015, Associate Editor since 2018), Phytocoenologia (a member of the Editorial Board, 2015-2018), Taiwania (English editor, 2016-2018), Monographiae Botanicae (a member of the Editorial Council since 2017).

Served as a reviewer for the following journals: Applied Vegetation Science (8 reviewed manuscripts), Biological Conservation (1), Biotropica (1), Botanical Studies (3), Central European Journal of Biology (2), Community Ecology (1), Czech Mycology (1), Data in Brief (1), Diversity and Distribution (1), Ecography (6), Ecological Indicators (3), Ecology (1), Ecology and Evolution (1), Ecological Research (1), Folia Geobotanica (13), Global Change Biology (1), Global Ecology and Biogeography (3), Invasive Plant Science and Management (1), Journal of Biogeography (4), Journal of Ecology (3), Journal of Forest Research (1), Journal of Linnean Society (1), Journal of Mountain Science (2), Journal of Plant Ecology (2), Journal of Vegetation Science (26), Methods in Ecology and Evolution (1), New Phytologist (2), New Zealand Journal of Botany (1), Oikos (2), PeerJ (2), Phytocoenologia (4), Plant Ecology (4), Plant Ecology & Diversity (2), Plant Ecology & Evolution (1), Plant and Soil (2), PLoS ONE (1), Population Ecology (1), Preslia (5), Restoration Ecology (1), ScienceAsia (1), Taiwania (5), Taiwan Journal of Forest Science (1), Vegetation Classification and Survey (2).

Membership in professional societies: Czech Botanical Society, International Association for Vegetation Science (2007-present, Council member since 2015, Secretary since 2019), Ecological Society of America (2010-2018), International Biogeography Society (2013-2017, 2023-2026), The Ecological Society of Japan (2018-2024), British Ecological Society (2020).

Past working experience:

• 2001: participation in the project The influence of management changes and atmospheric deposition on the ecosystem quality in mountainous areas - collecting and analysis of vegetation data (Dr J. Květ, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences)
• 2002: participation in the project Direct succession on previously arable land, CLUE - fieldwork, vegetation sampling in the Netherlands (Martin Bezemeer - NIOO, Heteren, the Netherlands)
• 2001–2004: field vegetation mapping in three different parts of the Czech Republic - project NATURA 2000 (J. Wimmer, J. Juřička and D. Cigánek)
• October 2002–February 2003: working stay in New Zealand, participation in the project Browsing effect of introduced mammals on the regeneration processes of native beech forest – preparation and coordination of the local project in Tongariro National Park (Steve Deverell and Sean Husheer - Department of Conservation, Turangi, New Zealand)
• 2004–2005: research assistant in the project VISTA - Vulnerability of Ecosystem Services to Land Use Change in Traditional Agricultural Landscapes, focused on measuring plant functional traits in field experimental studies (prof. Jan Lepš, Faculty of Biological Sciences in České Budějovice)
• September–November 2005: working stay in Taiwan, the introduction of European vegetation survey methods for the Taiwan national vegetation diversity inventory and mapping project (invited by Dr Ho-Yih Liu and Forestry Bureau, Republic of China)
• September–December 2007, September–December 2008 and September–December 2009: working stay in Taiwan, fieldwork as a part of the study for revealing the effect of cloud on the diversity of mountain subtropical cloud forests, together with Ching-Feng Li (Masaryk University Brno)
• September-November 2010: working stay in Taiwan, contributing to the concept of the study of Forest vegetation of Taiwan
• July-November 2012, 2013, 2014: working stay in Taiwan, fieldwork for the project Beta-diversity of vegetation along constrained ecological gradients, supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.

Field experience: Central Europe, Crete, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand.

Travel experience: Europe, northern Russia, Turkey, Morocco, USA, China, Tenerife.

Publications: Please check my profile on Web of Science (https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/A-2655-2010) or Scopus (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=23399257600).