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Serious Research with Great Fun: the Strange Case of Jan Šuspa Lepš (and Other Plant Ecologists)

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We thank all researchers who took our forms so seriously and all authors who contributed to this special issue, all with very enthusiastic contributions. A number of colleagues have carefully read and helped considerably improve this manuscript, including Meelis Pärtel and Ashlie Hartigan.

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  1. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Botany, Dukelská 135, CZ-379 82, Třeboň, Czech Republic

    Francesco de Bello, Jitka Klimešová & Karel Prach

  2. Department of Botany, University of South Bohemia, Na Zlaté stoce 1, CZ-370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

    Francesco de Bello & Karel Prach

  3. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Botany, CZ-252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Herben

  4. Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, CZ-128 10, Praha 2, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Herben

  5. Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, CZ-370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

    Petr Šmilauer

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de Bello, F., Klimešová, J., Herben, T. et al. Serious Research with Great Fun: the Strange Case of Jan Šuspa Lepš (and Other Plant Ecologists). Folia Geobot 48, 297–306 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12224-013-9170-4

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