Insect Communities

Robert has been invited to the National Meeting of Speleologists 2017 (Setkání jeskyňářů 2017) to have a talk about biodiversity of post-mining sites. Although none of our research goes underground, many speleologists do also manage quarries in which caves were…

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…

From Monday till Wednesday, Jan spent three days at the 3rd Symposium on Ecological Networks in Uppsala, Sweden. He presented our research on pollination networks along the altitudinal gradient of Mt. Cameroon and managed to meet and discuss with many…

  We have another successful thesis defence in our group! Today, Pavla Halamová has defended her Bachelor thesis entitled “Changes of biodiversity and composition of insect communities during restoration of tropical environments”. Pája has reviewed the current knowledge on impact…

Today, Jan Mengr has defended his master thesis entitled “Accumulation of heavy metals in tissues of terrestrial arthropods at fly ash deposits”. Honza focused on the controversion of fly ash deposits as a crucial biodiversity refuge or an ecological trap.…

Gentianella praecox ssp. bohemica is a critically endangered plant endemic to Central Europe, which has disappeared from many of its previous localities because of the short-tuft grasslands management changes. As a part of projects aiming its conservation, our colleagues from…

Last week, Pavel has come back from Cameroon after successfully finishing the moth sampling in the montane forest of Mt. Cameroon. He also brought some news from the field, especially about the rest of our pollination team staying there for…

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…

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…

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…