Insect Communities

Insect Community Ecology Group

Work in the Krakow museum

Robert TropekWednesday January 15th, 2020Thursday January 16th, 2020 Uncategorized

Vincent is introducing how to work with moths to Fotini

After some time, we have continued to process our moth material curated in collections of the Nature Education Centre of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The main aim was to introduce our material to Fotini, our new Erasmus intern. For her project, she has been taking pictures of selected moths from Mount Cameroon to investigate their inter-elevational and inter-seasonal variability. Vincent and Jan helped her, while they also worked on other tasks. Rob has brought more material from our other Afrotropical projects and broadened our collaboration with Dr. Tomasz Pyrcz. The visit has been as fruitful and comfortable as all our previous work in the friendly and professional environment.

Čuda J., Pyšková K., Hejda M., Foxcroft L.C., MacFadyen S., Storch D., Tropek R., Zambatis G., Pyšek P. (in press) Habitat modifies the relationship between grass and herbivore species richness in a South African savanna. Ecology and Evolution.

Ustjuzhanin P., Kovtunovich V., Delabye S., Maicher V., Sáfián Sz., Streltzov A., Tropek R. (2024) Magnifying the hotspot: Description of nine new species of many-plumed moths (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae), with an identification key to all species known from Cameroon. Zookeys 1193: 25-48.

Uceda-Gómez G., Chmel K., Janečková P., Mlíkovský J., Klomberg Y., Ewome F.L., Molua L.L., Njie M.M., Tropek R., Janeček Š. (2024) Drivers of sunbird-plant interactions on Mount Cameroon: between neutrality and niche-based processes. Biotropica 56: 138-146.

Sakhalkar S.P., Janeček Š., Klomberg Y., Mertens J.E.J., Hodeček J., Tropek R. (2023) Cheaters among pollinators: Nectar robbing and thieving vary spatiotemporally with floral traits in Afrotropical forests. Ecosphere 14: e4696.

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.

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