Curriculum Vitae
Personal details
Mgr. Bc. Klára Friesová, Ph.D. (formerly Klinkovská)
Born 27 August 1998, Brno, Czech Republic
Scopus Author ID: 57567408700
Web of Science ResearcherID: KEZ-9550-2024
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).
Employment history
2022 – present: Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, position: Researcher
Membership in professional societies
International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)
Member of Steering Committee for IAVS EcoInformatics Working Group
GfÖ - The Ecological Society for Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Gesellschaft für Ökologie für Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz)
Academic stays
2024: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany (3 months)
Courses
Hierarchical spatial modelling for applied population and community ecology. Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, 24–27 June 2024.
Research projects
2025–2027: European hotspots of local plant community species richness: origin and current changes. Czech Science Foundation (GA25-15235S), team member
2024–2026: MOTIVATE: Monitoring Of Terrestrial habitats by Integrating Vegetation Archive Time series in Europe. Biodiversa+ (101052342), team member
Teaching
2025 – present: Data manipulation and visualisation in R (Masaryk University, semestral course)
2024 – present: Field course of geobotany (Masaryk University, 5 days)
2023–2024: Data analysis in community ecology (Masaryk University, semestral course)
Co-supervisor of 1 Bachelor’s and 1 Master’s Thesis
International conferences
Friesová, K., Axmanová, I., Borovyk, D., Ćuk, M., Kopčan, B., Valachovič, M., Clark, A. T. & Chytrý, M. (2026). Vegetation remains, specialist species fade: changes in Pannonian sand grasslands [poster]. 68th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science. Gijón, Spain, 21–26 June 2026.
Klinkovská, K., Glaser, M., Klímová, B., Grattarola, F., Danihelka, J., Kaplan, Z., Knollová, I., Novotný, P., Pyšek, P., Řezníčková, M., Wild, J. & Chytrý, M. (2025). Changes in the Czech flora over the last six decades: spatially explicit trends and their causes [talk]. 67th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science. Greeley, Colorado (US), 28 July–3 August 2025.
Klinkovská, K., Sperandii, M. G., Knollová, I., Danihelka, J., Hájek, M., Hájková, P., Hroudová, Z., Jiroušek, M., Lepš, J., Navrátilová, J., Peterka, T., Petřík, P., Prach, K., Řehounková, K., Rohel, J., Sobotka, V., Vávra, M., Bruelheide, H. & Chytrý, M. (2025). Half a century of temperate non-forest vegetation changes: no net loss in species richness, but considerable shifts in taxonomic and functional composition [talk]. 33rd Conference European Vegetation Survey. Perugia, Italy, 28 April–2 May 2025.
Klinkovská, K., Sperandii, M. G., Knollová, I., Bruelheide, H., Chytrý, M. & Data contributors (2024). Half a century of vegetation changes across temperate non-forest habitats: minor changes in species richness, considerable shifts in taxonomic and functional composition [talk]. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Freising, Germany, 9–13 September 2024.
Klinkovská, K., Glaser, M., Danihelka, J., Kaplan, Z., Knollová, I., Pyšek, P., Řezníčková, M., Wild, J. & Chytrý, M. (2023). Changes in Czech flora and vegetation over the last six decades [talk]. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Leipzig, Germany, 12–16 September 2023.
Klinkovská, K., Harásek, M., Sperandii, M. G., Trávníček, B. & Chytrý, M. (2023). Significant decline in habitat specialists in dry grasslands of South Moravia over four decades [talk]. 31st Conference European Vegetation Survey. Rome, Italy, 21–25 May 2023.
Klinkovská, K. & Roleček, J. (2022). Tall-herb vegetation of the south Moravian forest-steppe [poster]. 30th Conference European Vegetation Survey. Bratislava, Slovakia, 9–13 May 2022.
National conferences
Friesová, K., Pustková, Š., Hubatka, P., Janišová, N., Nejeschlebová, K., Rohel, J., Sobotka, V., Šmerdová, E., Večeřa, M., Kadaš, D., Kopčan, B., Krejčová, M., Kučerová, A., Axmanová, I., Dřevojan, P., Janišová, M., Nikolei, R., Szokala, D., Stanišić-Vujačić, M., Stešević, D., Danihelka, J. & Chytrý, M. (2025). Druhová bohatost lesů Černé Hory závisí na klimatu, půdním pH a korunovém zápoji (Species richness of forests in Montenegro depends on climate, soil pH and canopy cover) [talk]. Konference České botanické společnosti: Český botanický výzkum v zahraničí (Conference of the Czech Botanical Society: Czech botanical survey abroad). Prague, 22–23 November 2025.
Klinkovská, K., Sperandii, M. G., Knollová, I., Bruelheide, H., Chytrý, M. & Data contributors (2025). Změny nelesní vegetace České republiky v posledních 50 letech (Changes in non-forest vegetation of the Czech Republic in the last 50 years) [talk]. Konference České botanické společnosti: Dlouhodobé změny vegetace a krajiny (Conference of the Czech Botanical Society: Long-term changes of vegetation and landscape). České Budějovice, 23–24 November 2024.
Chytrý, K. & Klinkovská, K. (2024). Dá se věřit resurvey studiím? (Can we trust resurvey studies?) [poster]. Konference České botanické společnosti: Dlouhodobé změny vegetace a krajiny (Conference of the Czech Botanical Society: Long-term changes of vegetation and landscape). České Budějovice, 23–24 November 2024.
Klinkovská, K., Glaser, M., Danihelka, J., Kaplan, Z., Knollová, I., Novotný, P., Pyšek, P., Řezníčková, M., Wild, J. & Chytrý, M. (2023). Změny české flóry v průběhu posledních šesti desetiletí (Changes in the Czech flora in the last six decades) [talk]. Konference České botanické společnosti: Dlouhodobé změny flóry České republiky (Conference of the Czech Botanical Society: Long-term changes of flora of the Czech Republic). Prague, 25–26 November 2023.
Ph.D. student meetings
Klinkovská, K. (2022). Changes in non-forest vegetation of the Czech Republic [talk]. 9th Meeting of Ph.D. students in Plant Ecology and Botany. Poroszló, Hungary, 23–25 September 2022.
Invited seminar talks
Změny české flóry a vegetace v posledních desetiletích (Changes in the Czech flora and vegetation over the last decades). Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice (Czech Republic), 16 April 2025.
Changes in the Czech flora and vegetation: Winners, losers and causes of changes. Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic), 28 November 2024.
Changes in the Czech flora and vegetation: Winners, losers and causes of changes. Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria), 17 October 2024.
Changes in the Czech flora and vegetation: Winners, losers and causes of changes. Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic), 23 April 2024.
Science communication
Press release communicating results of the publication Klinkovská et al. 2024, Biol. Conserv. to the public, following interviews for the Czech Television and Czech Radio
Participation in a short documentary about the stability and changes in South Moravian steppe vegetation, part of a documentary series for Czech Television about science and scientists
Science Talk – popularisation talk at JCMM (South Moravian Centre for International Mobility)
Peer review
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