In late March, just before the covid lock-down, we have arrived from South African Kruger NP. Rob and Sylvain did the last sampling of insects for the large collaborative research on the role of large herbivores and water availability for…
New publication on a butterfly pollination system
Our case study of the butterfly pollinated Scadoxus cinnabarinus has just been published in the Arthropod-Plant Interactions journal. Our so far unique system of flowers video recording system was developed on a few case studies on the slopes of Mount…
New publication on Afrotropical butterflies
In the last days of 2019, our new publication on understudied Afrotropical butterflies has been published in SHILAP Revista de lepidopterológia, the pdf can be downloaded here. In this study, Rob has participated on the description of unknown females of…
Work in the Krakow museum
After some time, we have continued to process our moth material curated in collections of the Nature Education Centre of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The main aim was to introduce our material to Fotini, our new Erasmus intern. For…
A sampling trip to Kruger
Pajá and Sylvain have spent the past three weeks in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. They continued sampling of moths and recording of bats for the project led by Petr Pysek and David Storch focused on the role…
Vincent got the postdoc position!
Vincent Maicher has defended his thesis just a few months ago. We are very glad he found his first postdoctoral position almost immediately. From February, he will start working in the Poulsen Ecology Lab at the Duke University in North…
New publication on seasonal shifts of lepidopterans along elevation
Recently, our new study on biodiversity patterns of butterflies and moths along the elevational gradient of Mount Cameroon has been published in the Journal of Biogeography. On the huge dataset of almost 1,200 species of lepidopterans sampled at three seasons…
Expedition to montane grasslands of Mt. Cameroon
We have just climbed down from Mount Cameroon. Kobe, Dominik, Stepan, Petra and Rob (together with our priceless Cameroonian assistants) have spent the last four weeks in Afromontane grasslands on Mount Cameroon. We have finally broadened our scope above the…
Conference of the Czech Ecological Society
Several members of our groups have attended a biennial meeting of the Czech Society for Ecology – Ekologie 2019. Besides active presentation of our research (Yannick, Jan and Rob gave oral presentations, whereas Pája, Antigone, Kája, Sylvain, Sentiko and Honza…
Research of moths after forest fires
Pavla continues with the sampling of data on diversity of moths in previously burnt and undisturbed forests for her master thesis. This year, she samples at the beautiful sandstone landscape of Bohemian Switzerland NP, in northwestern Czech Republic. With the…