Insect Communities

Insect Community Ecology Group

Back from Cameroon

Robert TropekSunday March 13th, 2016Monday March 14th, 2016 Uncategorized

Together with our colleagues and Cameroonian students we have spent five weeks in the forests of Mt. Cameroon. Besides finishing the sample of butterflies and moths in lower elevations, we have started with surveying of pollination networks in different altitudes. Pretty funny, pretty interesting…

Because of the high dry season we have been facing lack of water and have needed to carry it from Bakingili village pretty soon (the third wettest place in the world is quite dry in February). Fortunatelly, beer weighs equally to water 😉

Our international team of researchers, students and assisstants just before leaving the camp on the last day.

Our international team of researchers, students and assisstants just before leaving the Drinking Gary camp. © Štěpán Janeček

Zvereva E.L., Adroit B., Andersson T., Barnett C.R.A., Branco S., Castagneyrol B, Chiarenza G.M., Dáttilo W., del-Val E., Filip J., Griffith J., Hargreaves A.L., Hernández-Agüero J.A., Silva I.L.H., Hong Y., Kietzka G., Klimeš P., Koistinen M., Kruglova O., Kumpula S., Lopezosa P., March-Salas M., Marquis R.J., Marusik Y.M., Moles A.T., Muola A., Murkwe M., Nakamura A., Olson C., Pagani-Núñez E., Popova A., Rahn O., Reshchikov A., Rodriguez-Campbell A., Rytkönen S., Sam K., Sounapoglou A., Tropek R., Wenda C., Xu G., Zeng Y., Zolotarev M., Zubrii N., Zverev V., Kozlov M.V. (in press) Predation on live and artificial insect prey shows different global latitudinal patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Janeček Š., Uceda-Gómez G., Janečková P., Tropek R., Fominka N.T., Njie M.M., Mlíkovský J., Kamga S.M., Molua L.L., Ewome F.L. (in press) Food resource partitioning between males and females of Volcano Sunbird Cinnyris preussi on Mount Cameroon. Journal of Ornithology.

Čuda J., Pyšková K., Hejda M., Foxcroft L. C., MacFadyen S., Storch D., Tropek R., Zambatis G. & Pyšek P. (2024) Habitat modifies the relationship between grass and herbivore species richness in a South African savanna. Ecology and Evolution 14: e11167.

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.

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