Current positions
- Professor in tropical ecology and agriculture at the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences CZU
- Research fellow at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London
- Derbianus Conservation – founding member
- Antelope Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission IUCN – member
- Doctoral Degree Board Chair for Tropical Agrobiology and Bioresource Management PhD study programme
- Scientific Board of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague – member
- Scientific Board of the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences CZU – member
Grants & Fellowships
- 2004 Four-year project to research the ecology of West African vertebrates, funded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Co-PI)
- 2006 Three year fellowship from the Czech Science Foundation on livestock grazing behaviour
- 2007 Three-year project to support nature reserves in Senegal, funded by the Ministry of Environment, Czech Republic (Co-PI)
- 2015 One-year fellowship funded by the Ministry of Environment, Czech Republic to research the spatial behaviour of red deer
- 2017 Two-year Czech-Mongolian collaboration grant from the Czech Development Agency (Co-PI)
- 2020 Two-year fellowship from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of Czech Republic to explore the drivers and mechanisms underpinning habitat selection and movement patterns in African ungulate communities
Language
- Czech - native
- English – Certificate in Advanced English: CEFR Level C1
- French - Diplôme approfondi de langue française (DALF)
- Spanish - fluent
Publication
- 49 papers in listed peer-reviewed journals
- H-index = 12; SCI = 375 (327 without self-citations)
Selected papers
Hejcmanová P., Miřejovská M., Homolka P., Hejcman M. 2019. Drivers of diet selection of critically endangered Western Derby eland during the food shortage period within conservation breeding in Senegal. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 8712.
Hejcmanová P., Pokorná P., Hejcman M., Pavlů V. 2016. Phosphorus limitation relates to diet selection of sheep and goats on dry calcareous grassland. Applied Vegetation Science. 19 (2016) 101–110.
Jůnek T., Jůnková Vymyslická P., Hozdecká K., Hejcmanová P. 2015. Application of Spatial and Closed Capture-Recapture Models on Known Population of the Western Derby Eland (Taurotragus derbianus derbianus) in Senegal. PlosOne.
Hejcmanová P., Vymyslická P., Žáčková M., Hejcman M. 2013. Does supplemental feeding affect behaviour and foraging of critically endangered Western Giant eland in an ex situ conservation site? African Zoology 48, 250-258.
Hejcmanová P., Vymyslická P., Koláčková K., Antonínová M., Havlíková B. Policht R., Stejskalová M., Hejcman M. 2011. Suckling behaviour of eland antelopes (Taurotragus spp.) under semi-captive and farm conditions. Journal of Ethology 29, 161-168.
Hejcmanová, P., Homolka, M., Antonínová, M., Hejcman, M., Podhájecká, V. 2010. Diet composition of Western Derby eland (Taurotragus derbianus derbianus) in dry season in a natural and a managed habitat in Senegal using faeces analyses. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 40, 27–34.
Hejcmanová, P., Hejcman, M., Camara A.A., Antonínová M., 2010. Exclusion of livestock grazing and wood collection in dryland savanna: an effect on long-term vegetation succession. African Journal of Ecology 48, 408-417.
Teaching
Developing and teaching courses in Behavioural Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Areas, Resource Ecology: soil-plant-animal interactions, Biometry, Processing and Interpretation of Biological Data, and Introduction to Scientific Work Methods.
Student supervision
- 9 completed Ph.D. theses
- 5 running Ph.D. theses on large ungulate monitoring and ecology, as well as protected area management
- MSc. and BSc. absolvents 24 successfully defended Bachelor theses, 25 successfully defended Master theses
