doc. Mgr. Lumír Gvoždík Ph.D.

Position full-time researcher
Direction Physiological and Evolutionary Ecology

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Research interests

  • phenotypic selection,
  • phenotypic plasticity,
  • coadaption of thermal biology,
  • energetic metabolism.

Running Projects

Vulnerability of ectotherms to extreme temperatures: from mechanisms to climate change projections (2025–2027)

Finished projects

Strategies of freshwater organisms for a warming world: from individual to community perspective (2021–2024)
Freshwater ectotherms under climate change: the role of phenotypic plasticity in life histories and trophic interactions (2017–2019)
Thermal niche: evaluation of current concept in ectothermic vertebrates (2015–2017)
The role of predator-prey interactions in coadaptation of thermal biology (2010–2013)
Phenotypic plasticity of thermal physiology traits in newts (2006–2008)

Education

  • 1995: undergraduate study – Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Science, Systematic Biology and Ecology.
  • 1999: Ph.D. study – Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Science, Zoology.

Employment

  • 1998-present: Institute of Vertebrate Biology AS CR, Brno – scientific researcher.

Academic Service

  • 2003-present: editor of Herpetology, Folia Zoologica,
  • reviewer – Behaviour, Biologia, Biological Journal of Linnean Society, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Copeia, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Ecology, Folia Zoologica, Functional Ecology, Herpetological Journal, Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Thermal Biology, Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Journal of Zoology, Oecologia, PLoS ONE, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Global Change Biology.
  • 2007-2011: Steering Commitee, ESF Programme “Thermal adaptation in ectotherms: Linking life history, physiology, behaviour and genetics”.

International Cooperation

  • University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium (R. Van Damme),
  • Estación Biologica de Donana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain (M. Tejedo).

Teaching activities

  • lecturing – Ecology of Amphibians and Reptiles, Masaryk University, Brno,
  • supervising of undergraduate and graduate students: Masaryk University Brno, Palacký University Olomouc, University of Ostrava.

Current undergraduate students

  • Bc. Barbora Winterová: Seasonal phenotypic plasticity and species coexistence. (supervisor)

Former students

  • Alexandra Hánová
  • Eva Černická
  • Eliška Toufarová
  • Kateřina Bartáková
  • Jan Dvořák
  • Markéta Hadamová
  • Vendula Kurdíková
  • Vojtěch Marek
  • Eva Měráková
  • Daniel Polčák
  • Pavlína Šámajová
  • Radovan Smolinský
  • Terezie Vinšálková
  • Mgr. Peter Kristín
  • Bc. Monika Hloušková
  • Ondřej Kaman
  • Karin Piasečná
  • Luděk Podhajský

Publications and Applied outputs

2025

Tahalová K, Šugerková M, Gvoždík L (2025). Varying thermal dependence of life history traits predicts responses to environmental change in aquatic amphibian larvae. Freshwater Biology, e70007.

2024

Enriquez‐Urzelai U, Gvoždík L (2024). Impacts of behaviour and acclimation of metabolic rate on energetics in sheltered ectotherms: a climate change perspective. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 20232152.
Gvoždík L (2024). Individual variation in thermally induced plasticity of metabolic rates: ecological and evolutionary implications for a warming world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 20220494.
Hubáček J, Gvoždík L (2024). Terrestrial amphibians respond to rapidly changing temperatures with individual plasticity of exploratory behaviour.. Journal of Thermal Biology.
Oborová V, Šugerková M, Gvoždík L (2024). Sensitivity of amphibian embryos to timing and magnitude of present and future thermal extremes. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological and Integrative Physiology.

2022

Baškiera S, Gvoždík L (2022). Individual variation in thermal reaction norms reveals metabolic-behavioral relationships in an ectotherm. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 850941.
Gvoždík L (2022). Thermoregulatory opportunity and competition act independently on life-history traits in aquatic ectotherms. Functional Ecology.

2021

Baškiera S, Gvoždík L (2021). Thermal dependence and individual variation in tonic immobility varies between sympatric amphibians. Journal of Thermal Biology, 102896.
Baškiera S, Gvoždík L (2021). Repeatability and heritability of resting metabolic rate in a long-lived amphibian. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 110858.
Gvoždík L, Boukal DS (2021). Impacts of predator-induced behavioural plasticity on the temperature dependence of predator–prey activity and population dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology.
Hlubeň M, Kratochvíl L, Gvoždík L, Starostová Z (2021). Ontogeny, phylogeny and mechanisms of adaptive changes in evaporative water loss in geckos. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Winterová B, Gvoždík L (2021). Individual variation in seasonal acclimation by sympatric amphibians: a climate change perspective. Functional Ecology.

2020

Baškiera S, Gvoždík L (2020). Thermal independence of energy management in a tailed amphibian. Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 20057.

2019

Baškiera S, Gvoždík L (2019). Repeatability of thermal reaction norms for spontaneous locomotor activity in juvenile newts. Journal of Thermal Biology.
Hubáček J, Šugerková M, Gvoždík L (2019). Underwater sound production varies within not between species in sympatric newts. PeerJ, e6649.

2018

Gvoždík L (2018). Just what is the thermal niche?. Oikos.
Hloušková M, Balogová M, Kršáková V, Gvoždík L (2018). No trade-offs in interspecific interference ability and predation \nsusceptibility in newt larvae. Ecology and Evolution.
Winterová B, Gvoždík L (2018). Influence of interspecific competitors on behavioral thermoregulation: developmental or acute plasticity?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 169.
Žák J, Reichard M, Gvoždík L (2018). Limited differentiation of fundamental thermal niches within the killifish assemblage from shallow temporary waters. Journal of Thermal Biology.

2017

Gvoždík L, Kristín P (2017). Economic thermoregulatory response explains mismatch between thermal physiology and behaviour in newts. Journal of Experimental Biology.
Janča M, Gvoždík L (2017). Costly neighbours: Heterospecific competitive interactions increase metabolic rates in dominant species. Scientific Reports, 5177.
Starostová Z, Gvoždík L, Kratochvíl L (2017). An energetic perspective on tissue regeneration: the costs of tail autotomy in growing geckos. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology.

2016

Kristín P, Gvoždík L (2016). Influence of surrounding medium on metabolic rates in Alpine Newts, Ichthyosaura alpestris, during aquatic phase. Journal of Herpetology.
Podhajský L, Gvoždík L (2016). Variation in winter metabolic reduction between sympatric amphibians. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology.
Toufarová E, Gvoždík L (2016). Do female newts modify thermoregulatory behavior to manipulate egg size?. Journal of Thermal Biology.

2015

Balogová M, Gvoždík L (2015). Can newts cope with the heat? Disparate thermoregulatory strategies of two sympatric species in water. PLoS ONE.
Gvoždík L (2015). Mismatch between ectotherm thermal preferenda and optima for swimming: a test of the evolutionary pace hypothesis. Evolutionary Biology.
Gvoždík L, Smolinský R (2015). Body size, swimming speed, or thermal sensitivity? Predator-imposed selection on amphibian larvae. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 238.
Piasečná K, Pončová A, Tejedo M, Gvoždík L (2015). Thermoregulatory strategies in an aquatic ectotherm from thermally-constrained habitats: an evaluation of current approaches. Journal of Thermal Biology.

2014

Kristín P, Gvoždík L (2014). Aquatic-to-terrestrial habitat shift reduces energy expenditure in newts. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology.
Kristín P, Gvoždík L (2014). Individual variation in amphibian metabolic rates during overwintering: implications for a warming world. Journal of Zoology.
Polčák D, Gvoždík L (2014). Should I stay or should I go? The influence of temperature and sex on predator-induced responses in newts. Animal Behaviour.
Smolinský R, Gvoždík L (2014). Effect of temperature extremes on the spatial dynamics of predator–prey interactions: a case study with dragonfly nymphs and newt larvae. Journal of Thermal Biology.

2013

Gvoždík L, Černická E, Van Damme R (2013). Predator-prey interactions shape thermal patch use in a newt larvae-dragonfly nymph model. PLoS ONE.
Smolinský R, Gvoždík L (2013). Does developmental acclimatization reduce the susceptibility to predation in newt larvae?. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

2012

Gvoždík L (2012). Metabolic costs of hybridization in newts. Folia zoologica.
Gvoždík L (2012). Plasticity of preferred body temperatures as means of coping with climate change?. Biology Letters.
Kristín P, Gvoždík L (2012). Influence of respirometry methods on intraspecific variation in standard metabolic rates in newts. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology.
Marek V, Gvoždík L (2012). The insensitivity of thermal preferences to various thermal gradient profiles in newts. Journal of Ethology.
Smolinský R, Gvoždík L (2012). Interactive influence of biotic and abiotic cues on the plasticity of preferred body temperatures in a predator–prey system. Oecologia.

2011

Hadamová M, Gvoždík L (2011). Seasonal acclimation of preferred body temperatures improves the opportunity for thermoregulation in newts. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.
Kurdíková V, Smolinský R, Gvoždík L (2011). Mothers matter too: benefits of temperature oviposition preferences in newts. PLoS ONE.

2010

Dvořák J, Gvoždík L (2010). Adaptive accuracy of temperature oviposition preferences in newts. Evolutionary Ecology.
Šamajová P, Gvoždík L (2010). Inaccurate or disparate temperature cues? Seasonal acclimation of terrestrial and aquatic locomotor capacity in newts. Functional Ecology.

2009

Dvořák J, Gvoždík L (2009). Oviposition preferences in newts: Does temperature matter?. Ethology.
Měráková E, Gvoždík L (2009). Thermal acclimation of swimming performance in newt larvae: the influence of diel temperature fluctuations during embryogenesis. Functional Ecology.
Smolinský R, Gvoždík L (2009). The ontogenetic shift in thermoregulatory behaviour of newt larvae: testing the "enemy-free temperatures" hypothesis. Journal of Zoology.
Šamajová P, Gvoždík L (2009). The influence of temperature on diving behaviour in the alpine newt, Triturus alpestris. Journal of Thermal Biology.

2008

Gvoždík L, Van Damme R (2008). The evolution of thermal performance curves in semi-aquatic newts: thermal specialists on land and thermal generalists in water?. Journal of Thermal Biology.

2007

Gvoždík L, Stejskal D, Dvořák J (2007). Triturus alpestris (Alpine newt): hypomelanism. Herpetological Bulletin, 100: 33-34.
Gvoždík L, Puky M, Šugerková M (2007). Acclimation is beneficial at extreme test temperatures in the Danube crested newt, (Caudata, Salamandridae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Vinšálková T, Gvoždík L (2007). Mismatch between temperature preferences and morphology in F1 hybrid newts (Triturus carnifex x T. dobrogicus). Journal of Thermal Biology.

2006

Gvoždík L, Van Damme R (2006). Triturus newts defy the running-swimming dilemma. Evolution.

2005

Gvoždík L (2005). Does reproduction influence temperature preferences in newts?. Canadian Journal of Zoology - Revue Canadienne de Zoologie.

2003

Gvoždík L, Van Damme R (2003). Evolutionary maintenance of sexual dimorphism in head size in the lizard Zootoca vivipara: a test of two hypotheses. Journal of Zoology.
Gvoždík L (2003). Postprandial thermophily in the Danube crested newt, Triturus dobrogicus. Journal of Thermal Biology.

2002

Gvoždík L (2002). To heat or to save time? Thermoregulation in the lizard Zootoca vivipara (Squamata: Lacertidae) in different thermal environments along an altitudinal gradient. Canadian Journal of Zoology - Revue Canadienne de Zoologie.

2001

Gvoždík L, Castilla AM (2001). A comparative study of preferred body temperatures and critical thermal tolerance limits among populations of Zootoca vivipara (Squamata: Lacertidae) along an altitudinal gradient. Journal of Herpetology.

2000

Gvoždík L (2000). Intrapopulation variation in injury frequencies in the sand lizard, Lacerta agilis (Squamata, Lacertidae). Biologia.
Gvoždík L (2000). Seasonal activity, sex ratio, and abundance in a population of Lacerta agilis Linnaeus, 1758 from the Czech Republic (Squamata, Lacertidae). Herpetozoa.

1999

Gvoždík L (1999). Colour polymorphism in a population of the common lizard, Zootoca vivipara (Squamata: Lacertidae). Folia zoologica.
Gvoždík L (1999). Hypomelanism in the sand lizard, Lacerta agilis (Squamata: Lacertidae). British Herpetological Society Bulletin, 70: 20-22.

1998

Baig KJ, Gvoždík L (1998). Uperodon systoma (Schneider): Record of a new microhylid frog from Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology.
Gvoždík L, Boukal M (1998). Sexual dimorphism and intersexual food niche overlap in the sand lizard, Lacerta agilis (Squamata: Lacertidae). Folia zoologica.
Gvoždík L (1998). Lacerta agilis (Sand lizard). Dermatophagy. Herpetological Review, 28: 203-204.
Gvoždík L, Veselý M (1998). A contribution to the biology of Dravidogecko anamallensis (Günther, 1875) in captivity. Dactylus.
Gvoždík L, Boukal M (1998). Diet composition of the sand lizard, Lacerta agilis (Squamata: Lacertidae) in an anthropogenic habitat of the town Opava, Czech Republic. Časopis Slezského zemského muzea., iSérie A: Vědy přírodní.

1997

Gvoždík L, Havlíček R (1997). A small collection of amphibians from Baluchistan and Punjab, Pakistan in the Silesian Museum, Opava. Časopis Slezského zemského muzea., iSérie A: Vědy přírodní.
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