On Tuesday, Lucka Palivcová has successfully defended her MSc. thesis entitled “Influence of military disturbances on succession of arthropod communities in the Brdy Mts.” With the help of several other members of our group, she sampled a large material on…
Some numbers from our Mount Cameroonian butterfly and moth sampling
Vincent is now gradually finalizing his first “big manuscript” analyzing biodiversity of butterflies and moths along the altitudinal gradient of Mount Cameroon. During this process, he has also counted and quantified some values evidencing the huge effort we have invested…
Mount Cameroonian rains
Part of our research group is currently sampling data on pollination networks on Mount Cameroon, the last piece of the puzzle covers rainy season in the foothills. Despite all the rain (just reminding that foothills of Mount Cameroon rank among…
Eliška awarded by Peter Ashton Prize!
Eliška Padyšáková from our group has been honored by the prestigious Peter Ashton Prize, the award of Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation to the best article written by a student published in the scientific journal Biotropica. Eliška was awarded for the…
Our field research in Czech radio
For the recent series “Czech researchers in summer” of the Czech public radio focused on science, politics and culture (Cesky rozhlas Plus), Ondrej Novak has recorded two shorter reports from our field projects. Firstly, he shortly joined our last sampling…
Sylvain’s stay in Krakow
In July, Sylvain spent three weeks at the Zoological Museum of Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Thanks to all work of the museum staff with our material processing, he has finished sorting and identification of all Lymantriin specimens, one of our…
Description of 9 new species of many-plumed moths
Our report on the newly discovered hotspot of biodiversity of many-plumed moths (Alucitidae) in the Mount Cameroon area has been published in the Zookeys journal just yesterday. Whilst from any other place in the tropical Africa, maximally few species (typically…
Sampling of communities in post-industrial waters
In mid-July, Eliska, Pavel and Robert, spent almost two weeks by sampling freshwater communities in fly ash deposits and various post-mining sites across Bohemia, together with several members of David Boukal’s groups. Altogether, 20 localities were successfully sampled by numerous…
Rainiest journey to Mount Cameroon
Stepan, Jan, Hernani and our new PhD student Karolina has left to Cameroon on Monday. They will spend 7 weeks in the lower parts of Mount Cameroon altitudinal gradient collecting the last data within our large project on pollination networks.…
Julie’s successful internship in our group
This weekend, Julie Desmist from Université Paris-Saclay has finished her two months internship in our research group. At the Biology Centre CAS, she was assissting on our projects focused on biodiversity of Afrotropical moths under supervision by Vincent and Robert.…