Insect Communities

Insect Community Ecology Group

(Partly) back from Africa

Jan MertensTuesday December 13th, 2016Wednesday December 14th, 2016 Uncategorized

Michael and Yannick setting a camera on Impatiens mannii’s flowers.

The majority of us are back from Africa. Yannick, Jan, Vincent and Michael Bartoš have returned, mostly unscathed, from their expedition to Mt. Cameroon on Friday. They continued with our research on pollination systems, as well as lepidopteran diversity in the higher elevations of Mt. Cameroon. Simultaneously, Robert has come back from southern Africa yesterday, where he has been sampling moths along a gradient of environmental productivity. In a bit more than a week, Eliška, Sylvain and Petra Janečková will also return from the Bamenda Highlands in Cameroon. They are still collecting data on both pollination systems and moths. Now, we have approximately a month for recovering and preparing of the next Cameroonian expedition in late January 2017.

Sakhalkar S.P., Janeček Š., Klomberg Y., Mertens J.E.J., Hodeček J., Tropek R. (in press) Cheaters among pollinators: Nectar robbing and thieving vary spatiotemporally with floral traits in Afrotropical forests. Ecosphere.

Kolar V., Chmelová E., Bílková M., Borovec J., Carreira B.M., Černý M., Ditrich T., Horká P., Hrivniak L., Hrubý F., Jan J., Landeira-Dabarca A., Lepšová-Skácelová O., Musilová Z., Otáhalová Š., Poláková M., Polášková V., Sacherová V., Špaček J., Sroka P., Vebrová L., Boukal D.S., Tropek R. (2023) Muddying the unexplored post-industrial waters: Biodiversity and conservation potential of freshwater habitats in fly ash sedimentation lagoons. Science of the Total Environment 900: 165803.

Carreira B.M., Kolář V., Chmelová E., Jan J., Adašević J., Landeira-Dabarca A., Vebrová L., Poláková M., Horká P., Otáhalová Š., Musilová Z., Borovec J., Tropek R., Boukal D.S. (2023): Bioaccumulation of heavy metals at post-industrial freshwater sites varies predictably between habitats, elements and taxa: a power law approach. Science of the Total Environment 901: 165794.

Espeland M., Chazot N., Condamine F.L., Lemmon A.R., Lemmon E.M., Pringle E., Heath A., Collins S., Tiren W., Mutiso M., Lees D.C., Fisher S., Murphy R., Woodhall S., Tropek R., Ahlborn S.S., Cockburn K., Dobson J., Bouyer T., Kaliszewska Z.A., Baker C.C.M., Talavera G., Vila R., Gardiner A.J., Williams M., Martins D.J., Sáfián Sz., Edge D.A., Pierce N.E. (2023) Rapid radiation of ant parasitic butterflies during the Miocene aridification of Africa. Ecology and Evolution 13: e10046.

Papandreou F., Hodeček J., Maicher V., Delabye S., Pyrcz T., Tropek R. (2023) Larger insects in a colder environment? Elevational and seasonal intraspecific differences in tropical moth sizes on Mount Cameroon. Journal of Tropical Ecology 39: e4.

All publications