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Tree climbing course

Robert TropekMonday June 25th, 2018 Uncategorized

Karolína and Jan during their first climbing steps.

In the last week, Jan, Karolina (new PhD student coming to our group in the next weeks), Hernani (our fresh new postdoc) and our friend Krystof Chmel participated on a tree climbing course organised by Slávek Hoblík from Geokes.cz. During the course, they have learned more about the equipment used for tree climbing, different knots, and different techniques of climbing trees at both low (3-8 meters) and high (20-30 meters) canopies. The course is highly relevant to our pollination research. All its participants will use the new experience during installing of cameras into canopies on Mount Cameroon in the coming field trip between late July and half September.

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.

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