Mgr. Kateřina Dočkalová, Ph.D.

Position

Job Position: Research Assistant
Department: Department of Hydrochemistry and Ecosystem Modelling (HEM)
Workplace: Institute of Hydrobiology

Contact details

Phone: +420 38 777 5827
E-mail: katerina.dockalova@hbu.cas.cz
Room: 227

Others

Description:

Date of birth:

7. 8. 1982, Přerov, Czech Republic

 

Education:

2007 – MSc. in the field Environmental protection at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague (Accumulation of heavy metals in macrozoobenthos in the Elbe River and the lower Vltava River)

2013 – Ph.D. in the field Environmental studies at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague (Freshwater macroinvertebrates and their use for assessment of environmental changes in running waters)

 

Research stay:

One-year scholarship in Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Magdeburg, Germany (field and laboratory work focused on organochlorine pesticides accumulated in the Elbe macroinvertebrates).

 

Employment:

2009–2010: Hydrobiologist, Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic

2010– 2014: Research assistant/Head of the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague

2021–: Research assistant, Department of Hydrochemistry and Ecosystem Modelling, Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre CAS (part-time)

2022–: Research Evaluation Coordinator, Rector´s Office, Palackého University in Olomouc (part-time)

 

Projects:

2005 – participant in the project Projekt LABE (Ministry of the Environment of the CR, principal investigator Evžen Stuchlík)

2007 – participant in the project Metabolism of the acidified streams (principal investigator Elena Traister)

2006, 2011 – participant in the project EURO-LIMPACS (Evropské komise, hlavní řešitel Evžen Stuchlík)

2009–2013 – participant in the project CLIMHEAD, The integrated impact of climate change, air quality, and forest management on water ecosystem in headwater catchments (Czech Science Foundation, principle investigator Evžen Stuchlík)

2021 – 2022 – participant in the project Life at the Edge: The Limits of Occurrence of Insect Larvae (DIAMESA) (Austrian Science Fund FWF/Czech Science Foundation, principal investigator Reinhard Lackner)

2023 – 2025 – participant in the project ŠUTA: Environmental changes caused by extraterrestrial impacts and volcanism: Evidence from lake sediments (Czech Science Foundation, principal investigator Evžen Stuchlík)

Since 2026 – participant in the project CENA, Catastrophic events at the end of the last ice age and their impact on mountain lake ecosystems in North America and Europe (Ministry of Education Youth and Sports, principal investigator Daniel Vondrák)

CV:

1. Dočkalová, K.; Stuchlík, E.; Hamerlík, L.; Bitušík, P.; Turek, J.; Svitok, M.; Novikmec, M., Lackner, R.; Dvorak, M.; Kopáček, J.; Tátosová, J., Camarero, L., Füreder, L.; Vondrák, D. (2024). Cold mountain stream chironomids (Diptera) of the genus Diamesa indicate both historical and recent climate change. Environmental Entomology 53(4):604-618. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvae052

 

2. Dočkalová, K.; Senoo, T.; Vondrák, D.; Chvojka, P.; Kopáček, K.; Kamasová, L.; Beneš, F.; Špaček, J.; Tátosová, J.; Bitušík, P.; Fjellheim, A.; Stuchlík, E. (2022). Macroinvertebrate assemblages in acidified mountain lake inflows differs from lake outflows: the influence of lakes. Biologia 77:2593–2607. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-022-01144-1

 

3. Stuchlík, E.; Bitušík, P.; Hardekopf, D.W.; Hořická, Z.; Kahounová, M.; Tátosová, J.; Vondrák, D.; Dočkalová, K. (2017). Complexity in the biological recovery of Tatra Mountain lakes from acidification. Water Air Soil Pollution 228: 184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-017-3362-0

 

4. Dočkalová, E.; Holubcová, J.; Bacardit, M.; Bartrons, M.; Camarero, L.; Gallego, E.; Grimalt, J. O.; Hardekopf, D.; Hořická, Z.; Rosseland, B. O.; Tátosová, J.; Stuchlík, E. (2015). Brown and brook trout populations in the Tatra Mountain lakes (Slovakia, Poland) and contamination by long-range transported pollutants. Biologia 70/4: 515–529. https://doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2015-0052

 

5. Ungermanová, L.; Kolaříková, K.; Stuchlík, E.; Senoo, T.; Horecký, J.; Kopáček, J.; Chvojka, P.; Tátosová, J.; Bitušík, P.; Fjellheim, A. Littoral macroinvertebrates of acidified lakes in the Bohemian Forest. (2014). Biologia 69(9):1190-1201. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-014-0420-6

 

6. Kolaříková, K.; Horecký, J.; Liška, M.; Jíchová, M.; Tátosová, J.; Lapšanská, N.; Hořická, Z.; Chvojka, P.; Beran, L.; Košel, V.; Matěna, J.; Čiamporová-Zaťovičová, Z.; Krno, I.; Bulánková, E.; Šporka, F.; Kment, P.; Stuchlík, E. (2014) Benthic macroinvertebrates along the Czech part of the Labe and lower section of the Vltava rivers from 1996–2005, with a particular focus on rare and alien species. Biologia 69(4):508-521. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-014-0336-1

 

7. Frouz, J.; Jílková, V.; Cajthaml, T.; Pižl, V.; Tajovský, K.; Háněl, L.; Burešová, A.; Šimáčková, H.; Kolaříková, K.; Franklin, J.; Nawrot, J.; Groninger, J. W.; Stahl, P. D. (2013). Soil biota in post-mining sites along a climatic gradient in the USA: Simple communities in shortgrass prairie recover faster than complex communities in tallgrass prairie and forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 67:212-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.08.025

 

8. Traister, E. M.; McDowell, W. H.; Krám, P.; Fottová, D.; Kolaříková, K. (2013). Persistent effects of acidification on stream ecosystem structure and function. Freshwater Science 32(2):586-596. https://doi.org/10.1899/12-130.1

 

9. Kolaříková, K.; von Tümpling, W.; Bartels, P. (2012) Bioaccumulation of HCH isomers in selected macroinvertebrates from the Elbe River: sources and environmental implications. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 185:4333–4346. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-012-2872-x

 

10. Kolaříková, K.; Stuchlík, E.; Liška, M.; Horecký, J.; Tátosová, J.; Hardekopf, D.; Lapšanská, N.; Hořická, Z.; Hovorka, J.; Mihaljevič, M.; Fuksa, J. K.; von Tümpling, W. (2012). Long-Term Changes in the Bioaccumulation of As, Cd, Pb, and Hg in Macroinvertebrates from the Elbe River (Czech Republic). Water Air and Soil Pollution 223: 3511–3526. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-012-1129-1