Below is a list of oral talks and poster presentations given by members of the Vegetation Ecology Lab at national and international conferences. The names of lab members are in bold, and the first author is the presenting one.

• Zelený D. (2026): Co-occurrence-based measures of species habitat specialisation revisited (International Association for Vegetation Science, 68th Annual Symposium, Gijón, Spain, June 21-26, 2026, oral presentation)
• Calbi M., Wu J.-C., Lee Y.-N., Wei S. & Zelený D. (2026): How micro-environments shape individual trees' functional strategy and growth and recruitment (International Association for Vegetation Science, 68th Annual Symposium, Gijón, Spain, June 21-26, 2026, poster presentation)
• Wu Y.-H., Zelený D. & Hsieh C.-F. (2026): Comparing species diversity and community assembly processes between different regions of montane cloud forests in Taiwan (International Association for Vegetation Science, 68th Annual Symposium, Gijón, Spain, June 21-26, 2026, poster presentation)
• Wu J.-C. & Zelený D. (2026): Environmental drivers of understory vegetation dynamics in montane cloud forest of Taiwan (International Association for Vegetation Science, 68th Annual Symposium, Gijón, Spain, June 21-26, 2026, poster presentation)
• Zelený D. (2026): Co-occurrence-based measures of species habitat specialisation revisited (The International Biogeography Society, 12th Biennial Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, January 6-10, 2026, oral presentation)
• Yeh C.-N. & Zelený D. (2025): Changes in bryophyte community composition and functional traits along a fog frequency gradient in Taiwan (International Association of Bryologists, Bryological Advances in Asia and Beyond, Jiji, Taiwan, October 13-17, 2025, poster presentation)
• Rabena M.A.F. & Zelený D. (2025): How is the large-scale invasion level of anthropogenic vegetation in Taiwan affected by the relative proportion of environmental factors and human influence? (International Association for Vegetation Science, 67th Annual Symposium, Greeley, Colorado, USA, July 29-August 3, 2025, oral presentation)
• Zelený D. & Sekerková H. (2024): Exploring mechanisms behind species-area relationship on data from habitat patches of acidophilous grasslands: a case study from the Czech Republic (International Biogeography Society, 11th Biennial Conference, Prague, January 7-11, 2024, oral presentation)
• Lin S.-I. & Zelený D. (2023): Patterns of intra/interspecific trait variation of trees along fog gradient in Taiwan (International Association for Vegetation Science, 65th Annual Symposium, Coffs Harbour, Australia, September 3-8, 2023, poster presentation) - awarded by Honorable Mention by the IAVS
• Viana J.L., Huang C.-L. & Zelený D. (2023): Factors shaping functional and evolutionary patterns of fern communities in Taiwanese cloud forest (International Association for Vegetation Science, 65th Annual Symposium, Coffs Harbour, Australia, September 3-8, 2023, oral presentation)
• Zelený D. (2023): Cloud forest vegetation along fog frequency gradient in Taiwan: diversity and environment (International Association for Vegetation Science, 65th Annual Symposium, Coffs Harbour, Australia, September 3-8, 2023, oral presentation)
• Zelený D. (2023): How to study the effect of fog frequency on vegetation: a case study from Taiwan's cloud forest (Plant Ecology Workshop, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, August 19-20, 2023, oral presentation)
• Zelený D. & Sekerková H. (2023): Extinction of rare species on smaller islands is the key mechanism behind the species-area relationship on acidophilous habitat patches: an empirical study from the Czech Republic (Society for Island Biology, 4th Island Biology Conference, Lipari, Italy, July 3-7, 2023, oral presentation)
• Zelený D., Lee Y.-N. & Wei S. (2022): “Sun leaves” not always so sunny: light as confounding factor in intra-specific trait studies focused on woody species (International Association for Vegetation Science, 64th Annual Symposium, Madrid, Spain, June 27-July 1, 2022, oral presentation)
• Wei S. & Zelený D. (2022): The influence of environmental factors and biotic interactions on the early-stage establishment of Chamaecyparis obtusa var. formosana seedlings in Taiwan. (International Association for Vegetation Science, 64th Annual Symposium, Madrid, Spain, June 27-July 1, 2022, oral presentation, virtually)
• Zelený D., Lin P.-Y., Huang C.-L., Li C.-F. & Hsieh C.-F. (2022): A consistent hump-shaped pattern of diversity-elevation relationship observed at different grain scales: a case study using woody species in Taiwan. (International Biogeography Society, 10th Biennial Conference, hybrid meeting on June 2-6 in Vancouver, Canada; oral presentation provided on demand virtually)
• Tseng Y.-P. & Zelený D. (2022): Do subtropical montane cloud forests in Taiwan act as insular systems for woody species? (International Biogeography Society, 10th Biennial Conference, hybrid meeting on June 2-6 in Vancouver, Canada; oral presentation provided virtually, live)
• Lin P.-Y., Li C.-F. & Zelený D. (2022): Possible mechanisms explaining hump-shaped richness-elevation pattern of woody species in Taiwan. (International Biogeography Society, 10th Biennial Conference, hybrid meeting on June 2-6 in Vancouver, Canada; oral presentation provided on demand virtually)
• Huang C.-L. & Zelený D. (2022): How well do available methods quantify the importance of assembly processes in ecological community data: a simulation approach (International Biogeography Society, 10th Biennial Conference, hybrid meeting on June 2-6 in Vancouver, Canada; oral presentation provided on demand virtually)
• Zelený D., Helsen K. & Lee Y.-N. (2021): Extending the community-weighted mean approach to intraspecific trait variation: how to deal with overly optimistic standard parametric tests? (International Association for Vegetation Science, 63rd Annual Symposium, hosted virtually, September 20-23, 2021, oral presentation by David Zelený)
• Lee Y.-N. & Zelený D. (2021): Effect of wind and soil conditions on inter- and intraspecific leaf trait variation of broadleaf trees in the cloud forest: a case study from Taiwan (International Association for Vegetation Science, 63rd Annual Symposium, hosted virtually, September 20-23, 2021, poster with a lightning talk by Yi-Nuo Lee)
• Lin P.-Y., Zelený D. & Li C.-F. (2021): Woody species richness along elevation in Taiwan: patterns and mechanisms (International Association for Vegetation Science, 63rd Annual Symposium, hosted virtually, September 20-23, 2021, oral presentation by Po-Yu Lin)
• Tseng Y.-P. & Zelený D. (2021): Do subtropical montane cloud forests in Taiwan act as insular systems for woody species? (International Association for Vegetation Science, 63rd Annual Symposium, hosted virtually, September 20-23, 2021, poster with lightning talk by Yu-Pei Tseng)
• Chen C.-F. & Zelený D. (2021): Changes in species composition and plant functional traits during the landslide succession in high-mountain coniferous forest in central Taiwan (International Association for Vegetation Science, 63rd Annual Symposium, hosted virtually, September 20-23, 2021, oral presentation by Chien-Fan Chen)
• Zelený D., Shen Y.-C. & Li C.-F. (2019): Effect of cloud frequency on the forest vegetation in Taiwan: what can we learn from the trait-based approach using evergreen broadleaf species? (International Association for Vegetation Science, 62th Annual Symposium, Bremen, Germany, July 14-19, 2019, oral presentation by David Zelený)
• Lin P.-Y., Li C.-F. & Zelený D. (2019): Diversity pattern of woody species along elevation in Taiwan: does the sample standardisation matter? (International Association for Vegetation Science, 62th Annual Symposium, Bremen, Germany, July 14-19, 2019, poster presentation by Po-Yu Lin)
• Lin T.-Y. & Zelený D. (2019): Changes of community-level leaf traits of terrestrial and epiphytic ferns along an elevation gradient in Northeastern Taiwan. (International Association for Vegetation Science, 62th Annual Symposium, Bremen, Germany, July 14-19, 2019, poster presentation by Tsung-Yi Lin)
• Chen C.-F., Li C.-F. & Zelený D. (2019): Spontaneous regeneration of vegetation on landslides in low-elevation region in Central Taiwan. Environmental drivers and recommendations for restoration strategy. (International Association for Vegetation Science, 62th Annual Symposium, Bremen, Germany, July 14-19, 2019, poster presentation by Chien-Fan Chen)
• Zelený D. & Lin T.-Y. (2018): Changes in leaf traits along the elevation gradient in Taiwan: using ferns as a model plant group. Asian Symposium of Ferns & Lycophytes, Taipei, Taiwan, 16-18 October 2018, oral presentation by David Zelený) www
• Zelený D. (2018): To test or not to test, that is the question: relating mean Ellenberg indicator values to ordination axes is an example of spurious correlation (International Association for Vegetation Science, 61th Annual Symposium, Bozeman, Montana, USA, July 22-27, 2018, oral presentation)
• Zelený D. (2018): Importance of environment evaluated by constrained ordination depends on the completeness of sampling (Ecological Society of Japan, 65th Annual Meeting, Sapporo, March 15-18 2018, oral presentation) www
• Zelený D. (2017): Community assembly along stress gradients: effect of cloud frequency and chronic-wind intensity on forest vegetation in Taiwan (Symposium of Ministry of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, November 17 2017, oral presentation) www
• Zelený D. (2017): Bias in community-weighted mean analysis of plant functional traits and species indicator values (International Association for Vegetation Science, 60th Annual Symposium, Palermo, Italy, June 20-24 2017, oral presentation)
• Zelený D. (2016): Jumping on the bandwagon of beta diversity partitioning (NTU & NTNU Joint Symposium on Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Taipei, Taiwan, 22 May 2016, oral talk)
• Zelený D., Li C.-F. et al. (2016): Beta diversity pattern of forest vegetation along elevation in Taiwan: what have we learned so far? (Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Ecological Research Network in JiJi, Taiwan, 15-16 April 2016, oral presentation by David Zelený)