Currently we are preparing three different expeditions to Africa. Jan, Yannick, Vincent and our collaborator Michael Bartoš are leaving tomorrow, they will spend six weeks on the slopes of Mt. Cameroon. Robert will join an expedition with ornithologists from Prague…
Restoration Ecology in Lille
Last week Robert visited ISA Lille, a French Graduate School in Agriculture and Bioengineering. The whole Monday he gave lectures to master students of the Sustainable Management of Pollution programme. He introduced the importance of various post-industrial sites for biodiversity of (mainly) insects…
Progress in processing of Cameroonian moths
Last week, Sylvain and Vincent visited the collaborating Zoological museum of Jagellonian University in Krakow, Poland. They have carried on sorting and identifying the moths collected at lower elevations of Mt. Cameroon during our expeditions. Simultaneously, they have visited Dr. Lukasz Przybylowicz at…
Greenhouse experiments are over
Fieldworks of the Zelezne hory pollination project (more info here) already finished several weeks ago. Until last week, however, greenhouse experiments were still running. For the whole season, our group members assisted with removal of study plants from the Zelezne hory Mts. to…
We have finally added more details on our pollination projects! Other projects pages will be upgraded soon…
New publication on conservation potential of old solitary trees
Old solitary trees used to be a common component of our landscape. Open-grown trees differ in architecture from trees grown in closed forests, as they are usually more patulous with a higher heterogeneity of micro-habitats inhabited by numerous organisms. A recent study of…
Gábina has defended her thesis!
Today, Gabriela Wofková has successfully defended her master thesis entitled “Diversity of traits of aculeatan hymonopterans in habitats with finely-grained substrate”. It is thus the second defended thesis of our group in the last few days. Gábina analysed what traits of individual…
Lucie has successfuly defended her thesis!
Yesterday morning, Lucie Palivcová has defended her Bachelor thesis entitled “Effectivity and utilisation of different methods of moths research” (it is written in Czech). Lucka has reviewed all the available methodological studies on sampling of moth communities. Despite quite strong…
Czech TV broadcast on post-industrial sites restoration
In spring, our group has collaborated on shooting of Nedej se!, the environmentalistic broadcast of the Czech national television. On the last Sunday, there was a premiere of the broadcast. We intensively discuss the current practice of various post-industrial sites…
Our contributions at the SER 2016 conference
A week ago, Filip and Robert have attended the 10th European Conference on Ecological Restoration in Freising. Filip, whose attendance was funded by a scholarship from the Society for Ecological Restoration, has presented a talk on differences between effects of technical reclamation…