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Three new graduates in our group!

Last week, three of our students successfully completed their degrees at the Charles University. Dominik Anýž and Jan (Honza) Filip have been awarded by MSc degrees for their theses in pollination ecology at the Department of Ecology. Dominik has performed…

SaileeMonday September 13th, 2021 Uncategorized
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Summer sampling of plant-pollinator networks in Norway

After successfully sampling at Milovice despite the interfering wildlife, we continued fieldwork for our project focused on latitudinal trends of plant-pollinator interactions. This time, six team members drove to northern Norway to sample at the northernmost site in the project…

SaileeSaturday August 21st, 2021Tuesday January 18th, 2022 Uncategorized
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New research sites in Krkonose montane grasslands

As a conclusion to the busy month, a large part of our team (Rob, Stepan, Kobe, Antigone, Dominik and Sailee) spent the last week of June in the Krkonose mountains. We hiked along the ridge of the mountain range, looking…

SaileeTuesday July 21st, 2020Tuesday July 21st, 2020 Uncategorized
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Field courses for students in Czechia

June has been a rather busy month! We’ve been on and off field quite a bit, but we have also did some field teaching of ecology. In early June, Kobe and Sailee assisted with teaching a field course of the…

SaileeFriday July 10th, 2020 Uncategorized
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Spring sampling in the Krkonoše Mts.

During May, our group (mainly Sailee, Kobe, Antigone and Eliska, but with a strong support of many others) resumed sampling in the Krkonoše Mts. in northern Czechia. We recorded floral visitors of plants in semi-natural forests along their altitudinal gradient.…

SaileeTuesday June 30th, 2020 Uncategorized
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Nové publikace

Gaona F.P., Delabye S., Maicher V., Sáfián Sz., Altman J., Doležal J., Janeček Š., Kobe I.N., Murkwe M., Tropek R. (in press) Butterfly and moth habitat specialisation changes along an elevational gradient of tropical forests on Mount Cameroon. Oikos.

Gaona F.P., Delabye S., Maicher V., Ustjuzhanin P., Kovtunovich V.N., Janeček Š., Murkwe M., Potocký P., Sáfián Sz., Tropek R. (in press) Elevational patterns in two groups of micromoths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae, Alucitidae) in tropical forests of Mount Cameroon. African Journal of Ecology.

Gaona F.P., Delabye S., Potocký P., Govorov V., Čuda J., Foxcroft L.C., Garlacz R., Hejda M., MacFadyen S., Pyrcz T., Pyšková K., Sedláček O., Storch D., Pyšek P., Tropek R. (2025) Chasing the rains: Seasonal dynamics of herbivorous and predatory insects in savannahs in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Austral Ecology 50: e70115.

Barták M., Tropek R. (2025) When the day ends: Review on the importance of nocturnal moths as pollinators in tropical ecosystems. Journal of Tropical Ecology 41: e5.

Lanuza J.B. et al. (inlc. Tropek R.) EuPPollNet: A European database of plant-pollinator networks. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34: e70000.

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