Recently our group, with Yannick as the principal investigator, has successfully applied for a student grant by the Grant Agency of the Charles University (GAUK). The project is entitled “The importance of seasonality in shaping plant-pollinator networks in tropical montane…
Exploring floristic diversity in the Afrotropics
This week a new publication on the floristic diversity in the afrotropics, co-autored by Yannick, has been published in BMC Biology using the RAINBIO database. In this paper, spatial variation in floristic diversity and data collection is shown. Furthermore, it also shows the difficulties…
Back from another successful expedition
Rob, Jan, Yannick, Pavel and our close collaborator Štěpán Janeček have returned, mostly unscathed, from our dry season expedition on Mt. Cameroon. They continued with our research on pollination systems, as well as lepidopteran diversity in the three higher elevations…
New publication on Afrotropical plant distribution
In the past year Yannick has contributed to the creation of RAINBIO during his work for the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands. The RAINBIO is a comprehensive mega-database of georeferenced records for vascular plants in continental tropical Africa. Recently a data…
Seminar on post-industrial sites in Krakow
In the past week Robert was invited to give a seminar on post-industrial sites at the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Krakow. Rob has summarised the long-term research of our group, which proves…
Yannick’s visit to Naturalis
Yannick is currently in Leiden, the Netherlands, to visit the collections at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center. There he is preparing himself for the coming trip to Cameroon. As one of the botanists from the team he is responsible for the…