Pavel Samonil

Biographic Data

ID2185887
NAMEPavel Samonil
GIVEN NAMESPavel
FAMILY NAMESamonil
SIGNATURESAMONIL P
AFFILIATIONSLandscape Research Institute
ORCID0000-0002-7722-8797
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Wind and Topographic Impacts on Forest Biogeomorphic Disturbances

    Open AccessŁukasz Pawlik, Pavel Samonil et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2026

    Soil transport through uprooted trees represents a crucial soil disturbance agent in many forest ecosystems. In addition to tree species and forest structure, tree throw dynamics strongly depend on the character of wind flow and specifically on extreme wind events. The tracks of extra‐tropical cyclonic storms are typically west–east in Europe and the disturbances cause major pulses in forest slope dynamics. In the regime of rare but powerful wind…

  • Rapid trend towards larger and more moisture-limited trees in Central-European temperate forests

    Open AccessVáclav Treml, Jan Tumajer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Tree stems represent a long-lived biomass compartment for atmospheric carbon sequestration. While terrestrial biosphere models predict rising carbon sequestration in forests, direct observations of tree growth are inconclusive due to varying standardization procedures of tree-ring series and complex factors influencing stem growth such as moisture and nutrient deficits and anthropogenic carbon and nitrogen fertilization. The mismatch between tree…

  • Spatial patterns in recent forest growth trends across the Czech Republic

    Open AccessDaniela Machová, Jakub Kašpar et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2024

    The radial growth of trees significantly contributes to climate change mitigation by sequestering carbon into woody biomass. Radial growth trends observed in European temperate forests during the recent period of climate warming vary between growth acceleration due to longer growing seasons and growth declines due to amplified drought stress. Assessing the spatial variation of growth trends is challenging due to the point relevance of available e…

  • Relationship between extreme species richness and Holocene persistence of forest-steppe grasslands in Transylvania, Romania

    Open AccessJan Novák, Pavel Samonil et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2024References: 7

    The most species-rich grasslands worldwide are known from the Carpathian Mts and their periphery in East-Central Europe. They occur in forest-steppe regions, transitional between temperate forest and arid steppe biomes. Their climate, largely suitable for forests, raises questions about the origin of these grasslands. Have they been forested in the past, or locally maintained through a disturbance regime? We addressed these questions to contribut…

  • Species-specific climate–growth interactions determine tree species dynamics in mixed Central European mountain forests

    Open AccessJakub Kašpar, Jan Tumajer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Increasing growing season temperatures and the seasonal redistribution of precipitation due to climate change have recently been recorded across the globe. Simultaneously, increases of severe droughts and windstorm frequency have also been documented. However, the impacts of climate change on tree growth performance and fitness might largely differ among coexisting species. Consequently, ongoing temperature increases could lead to extensive chang…

  • Gradients in Lake Effect Snowfall and Fire across Northern Lower Michigan Drive Patterns of Soil Development and Carbon Dynamics

    Randall J Schaetzl, David E Rothstein et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2018References: 86

    Soils and forest ecosystems vary predictably along a 145-km transect in northern Lower Michigan. In the east, Entisols support open jack pine stands. In the central transect, weak Spodosols have formed under oak–pine–aspen forests. In the Lake Michigan snowbelt on the west, strongly developed Spodosols occur beneath mesic northern hardwoods. We hypothesized that increasing amounts of snowfall, coupled with decreasing fire frequencies, promote soi…

  • Contrasting local and regional Holocene histories of Abies alba in the Czech Republic in relation to human impact: Evidence from forestry, pollen and anthracological data

    Open AccessRadka Kozáková, Pavel Samonil et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2011Cited by: 7References: 12

    After the last glaciation, around 4000 BC, silver fir ( Abies alba Mill.) spread to the area that is now the Czech Republic. This spread was not restricted to high mountains, but also took place across both highland and lowland landscapes. Historical forestry records from around AD 1500 mention a massive expansion of Abies alba, favoured by forest pasturing, litter raking and selective tree cutting. According to the current interpretation of thes…