Since late spring, Lucka has been sampling several groups of terrestrial arthropods in the abandoned military training area in Brdy. For her master thesis, she focuses on arthropods inhabiting shooting areas with different levels of disturbances. Besides the majority of…
Mercy in Krakow
The last two weeks, Mercy has spent at the Zoological Musem of Jagellonian University in Krakow. Together with our long-term collaborators Szabolcs Sáfián and Tomasz Pyrcz, she has finished identification of all the fruit-feeding butterflies collected during our expeditions to…
Our past project got an excellent evaluation
Recently, the Czech Science Foundation (main scientific grant agency in the country) released evaluation of projects finished in the last year. Robert’s grant on finely-grained post-industrial sites got an excellent rankings. During the five-years project, Robert and his collaborators, both…
Main fieldwork in Zelezne hory
A large part of our group (including our two visitors Mercy and Laura) spent the last three weeks in the Zelezne hory Mts. Since last year we have been working on the project led by our colleagues from the Institute…
Study on importance of flower spurs
A new study on a pollination system of Impatiens burtonii with Eliška’s contribution has just been published by the New Phytologist journal. Its authors, led by Štěpán Janeček, focused on morphology of the flower spur in relation to morphology and behaviour of…
New grant on pollination research
Our pollination research has been supported by a PRIMUS grant – a support from the Charles University for young researchers. For the next three years, we will thus be working on a project entitled “Crucial drivers for pollination networks organisation:…
Laura, a new intern in our group
Today, Laura Mlynárová has started her two-months Erasmus internship at our group. Laura is coming from the University of Prešov, Slovakia, where she defended her Bachelor thesis focused on the biology of specific species of bark beetles. Within our group,…
Our Cameroonian student in Prague
On Saturday, we have welcomed Mercy Murkwe, our Cameroonian doctoral student, in Prague. Since her Master studies, she has collaborated on our projects focusing mainly on communities of fruit feeding butterflies of Mt. Cameroon. Recently, she has fully organised one of our…
Back from Mt. Cameroon: End of one project
Vincent, Sylvain and Pavel have returned from their fieldwork in Cameroon last Monday. Their expedition brought data on butterflies and moths from 80 bait traps exposed in total for 50 days, and from 30 full nights of manual collecting of moths…
Treeclimbing course
Yannick, Štěpán and Robert spent the last Saturday in a treeclimbing course organised by worksafety.cz. After installing cameras into few tens of trees on Mt. Cameroon, we have realised during this training what can be done better and learned quite some new techniques.…