Position: researcher
Branch: Department of ecosystem functional analysis of the landscape
Workplace:
MendelGlobe
Zemědělská 1665/1
Brno
613 00
Email: samec.p@czechglobe.cz
Phone:
Research Focus
- forest soil properties modelling and mapping
- environmental change impact on forest soil properties
- soil development during Quaternary environmental changes
- forest ecological restoration under loaded conditions
Education
- 2004 – Ing. Mendel Agricultural and Forestry University in Brno (Programme: Forest engineering)
- 2019 – Ph.D. Palacký University in Olomouc (Programme: Geoinformatics and Cartography)
Appointments
2005-2006: Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel Agricultural and Forestry University in Brno (researcher)
2006-2016: Forest management Institute Brandýs nad Labem (autonomous planner on regional plans of forest development; leading planner on soil science)
2012-2015: Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc (researcher)
2017-today: Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno (researcher)
2018-today: Global Change Research Institute CAS (researcher)
Important research visits and fellowships
Brief scientometrics
h-index (Web of Science): 6
Selected papers:
Samec P., Rychtecká P., Tuček P., Bojko J., Zapletal M., Cudlín P. 2016. A static model of abiotic predictors and forest ecosystem receptor designed using dimensionality reduction and regression analysis. Baltic Forestry 22: 259–274.
Samec P., Caha J., Tuček P., Zapletal M., Cudlín P., Kučera M. 2017. Discrimination between acute and chronic decline of Central European forests using map algebra of the growth condition and forest biomass fuzzy sets: A case study. Science of the Total Environment 599–600: 899–909.
Horáček M., Samec P., Minár J. 2018. The mapping of soil taxonomic units via clustering – A case study from the Outer Carpathians, Czechia. Geoderma 326: 111–122.
Samec P., Mikita T., Bajer A. 2019. Catenas of grain size and chemical forest soil properties in Outer Western Carpathians of the Czech Republic characterized by principal component analysis. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 67: 733–747.
Samec P., Zapletal M., Lukeš P., Rotter P. 2020. Spatial lag effect of aridity and nitrogen deposition on Sots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) damage. Environmental Pollution 265B: 114352.
Samec P., Volánek J., Kučera M., Cudlín P. 2021. Effect of Soil Diversity on Forest Plant Species Abundance: A Case Study from Central-European Highlands. Forests 12: #534.
Kašpar V., Zapletal M., Samec P., Komárek J., Bílek J., Juráň S. 2022. Unmanned Aerial Systems for modelling air pollution removal by urban greenery. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 78: 127757.
Samec P. 2022. Kolmogorovʼ entropy to investigate variation of forest soil properties in the Czech Republic. Geoderma Regional 28: e00455.
Samec P., Rychtecká P., Zeman M., Zapletal M. 2022. Environmental Effects among Differently Located and Fertile Sites on Forest Basal-Area Increment in Temperate Zone. Forests 13: #588.
Samec P., Kudělková R., Lukeš P., Kučera A., Cudlín P. 2022. Influence of environmental predispositions on temperate mountain forest damage at different spatial scales during alternating drought and flood periods: case study in Hrubý Jeseník Mts. (Czech Republic). Journal of Mountain Science 19: 1931–1944.
Rychtecká P., Samec P., Rosíková J. 2023. Floodplain forest soil series along the naturally wandering gravel-bed river in temperate submontane altitudes. Catena. 222: 106830.
Samec P., Volánek J., Holík L., Rychtecká P., Balková M., Vranová V. 2023. The effect of soil conditions on submountain site suitability for Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst.) in Central Europe. iForest – Biogeosciences and Forestry 16: 210–217.
Samec P., Kučera A., Rychtecká P., Tomášová G., Volánek J., Balková M., Velek M., Bajer A. 2023. Vododržnost hydrických skupin lesních půd v České republice. Zprávy lesnického výzkumu 68: 68–78.
Samec P., Hájek F., Sirota I. 2024. Natural conditions for heliophilous tree-species following forest dieback in temperate zone after periglacial habitats. Journal of Landscape Ecology 17: 18–38.
Janovský M.P., Lisá L., Hladík M., Arroyo K.M., Mazuch M., Samec P., Ferenczi L. 2025. Explaining Dark Earth’s formation processes may help to understand the settlement strategy. Catena 258: 109185.
