Insect Communities

Insect Community Ecology Group

sylvain.delabye@gmail.com Tri

Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Research interests
Biodiversity and ecology of Afrotropical butterflies and moths
Biodiversity changes along environmental gradients

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Liang J. et al. (incl. Delabye S., Janeček Š., Klomberg Y., Maicher V., Tropek R.) (in press) Co-limitation toward lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients. Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Delabye S., Storch D., Sedláček O., Albrecht T., Hořák D., Maicher V., Tószögyová A., Tropek R. (2022) Moth diversity increases along a continent-wide gradient of environmental productivity in South African savannahs. Insects 13: 778.

Delabye S., Gaona F.P., Potocký P., Foxcroft L.C., Halamová P., Hejda M., MacFadyen S., Pyšková K., Sedláček O., Staňková M., Storch D., Pyšek P., Tropek R. (2022) Thirteen moth species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Noctuidae) newly recorded in South Africa, with comments on their distribution. Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e89729.

Klomberg Y., Tropek R., Mertens J.E.J., Kobe I.N., Hodeček J., Raška J., Fominka N.T., Souto-Vilarós D., Janečková P., Janeček Š. (2022) Spatiotemporal variation in the role of floral traits in shaping tropical plant-pollinator interactions. Ecology Letters 25: 839-850.

Hejda M., Čuda J., Pyšková K., Zambatis G., Foxcroft L.C., MacFadyen S., Storch D., Tropek R., Pyšek P. (2022) Water availability, bedrock, disturbance by herbivores, and climate determine plant diversity in South‑African savanna. Scientific Reports 12: 338.