Robert, Yannick and Stepan (together with our close collaborators Petra Janečková, Jana Jersáková and Michael Bartoš) attended the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Association of Pollination Ecologists (SCAPE) held from Thursday 18 – Sunday 21 October 2018, in the beautiful…
Global Biodiversity Conservation Conference in Prague
Last week, Rob, Hernani, Vincent, Lucka and Yannick attended the 5th Global Biodiversity Conservation Conference held at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague-Suchdol. Rob was invited to give a talk entitled Vanishing keystones? How poaching of large mammals…
Yannick at the European Conference of Tropical Ecology
From 26th till 29th March, Yannick attended the European Conference of Tropical Ecology in Paris, France. During this scientific meeting, he gave a talk on the role of seasonality in shaping the pollination networks in the montane forests of Mount…
Group meeting in Lužnice
In the past weekend, our group met in the Lužnice field station of the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. We were joined by a few close collaborators working on our current and future projects. During both days we…
Visit of botanical colections in the Netherlands
Yannick, together with Štěpán Janeček, spent the last week in the Netherlands by visiting the national herbarium of the Netherlands based at Naturalis and to visit the Hortus botanicus in Leiden. In the herbarium they were working on further identification…
Czech Society for Ecology conference
Our group members have participated on organising of the 6th conference of the Czech Society for Ecology; Robert as the main organiser and Jan as the book of abstracts’ main editor. Several other group members presented our research in the form…
Back from rainy Cameroon
Our expedition for the rainy season on Mt. Cameroon has ended and our team has returned to Czechia on Friday. The majority of the team spent three weeks in the Mann’s Spring area (±2200 m) and two weeks close to…
To Mt. Cameroon in rain season!(?)
This week, some members of our group and a few our collaborators left for another expedition to Mt. Cameroon. Firstly, Yannick, Štěpán Janeček and our treeclimber Pavel Kratochvíl left on Monday. Pavel Potocký, Zuzka Sejfová and Jiří Mlíkovský has joined…
First fieldwork in Železné hory
Last weekend Rob and Yannick were in the Železné hory Mts. for the first this-year fieldwork in Czechia. Together with Michael Bartoš, Štěpán Janeček and Jana Jersáková, we continued the collection of data on characteristics of pollination networks in the fragmented…
Counting pollen tubes in Třeboň
Recently, Yannick has spent a few days at the Botanical Institute of the Czech Academy of Science in Třeboň. There, together with Štěpán Janeček, he focused on pollen tubes of Hypoxis camerooniana, a common plant of montane grasslands of Mt. Cameroon. We selected this…