Insect Communities

Insect Community Ecology Group

Mercy Murkwe

mmurkwe@yahoo.com

Laboratory for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Department of Zoology and Animal Physiology, University of Buea, P.O. Box 320 Buea, Cameroon

Research interests
Biodiversity and ecology of Cameroonian fruit-feeding Lepidoptera
Biodiversity patterns along ecological gradients

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Maicher V., Delabye S., Murkwe M., Doležal J., Altman J., Kobe I.N., Desmist J., Fokam E.B., Pyrcz T., Tropek R. (2020) Effects of disturbances by forest elephants on diversity of trees and insects in tropical rainforests on Mount Cameroon. Scientific Reports 10: 21618.

Delabye S., Maicher V., Sáfián Sz., Doležal J., Altman J., Janeček Š., Kobe I.N., Murkwe M., Šebek P., Tropek R. (accepted) Butterfly and moth communities differ in their response to habitat structure in rainforests of Mount Cameroon. Biotropica.

Delabye S., Sedláček O., Maicher V., Tropek R. (2020) New records of six moth (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Lasiocampidae) species in south African countries, with comments on their distribution. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e59339.

Fikáček M., Zhao Q., Kobe I.N., Grebennikov V. (2020). Kruia rediscovered: phylogenetic implications, larval morphology, and biology of an enigmatic hydrophilid beetle from western Africa (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 73: 427-444.

Mottl O., Fibich P., Klimes P., Volf M., Tropek R. … Novotny V. (2020) Spatial covariance of herbivorous and predatory guilds of forest canopy arthropods along a latitudinal gradient. Ecology Letters 23: 1499-1510.

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