Together with Klara Rehounkova (University of South Bohemia), Robert Tropek is organising a special session at the next conference of Society for Ecological Restoration (http://www.ser2016.org). The session is entitled “Conservation importance of early successional stages in restoration of human-made sites”,…
Vincent and Stepan left to Cameroon
Today early morning, Vincent Maicher and Stepan Janecek have left to Cameroon. They will finish moth sampling in the Bimbia Bonadikombo Community Forest which failed in 2014 because of a full moon. In ten days, a few more of us will join…
The PhD position call is closed
Altogether, 42 (of course, the most important number…) candidates from 15 countries (by the last affiliation of candidates) applied for the PhD position. In the next few weeks we will need to select only one of them to join our team for the…
New book on biodiversity of postindustrial sites
A second, substantially actualised edition of our book on ecological restoration of various human-disturbed sites has just been published! Its style and language target practical restorationists, miners, conservation officers, members of environmental NGOs, and general public interested in nature as well.…
New Ph.D. position for pollination research in Cameroon
Topic: Plant-pollinator interactions along an Afrotropical altitudinal gradient We are seeking a highly motivated Ph.D. student to join a project assessing studies of plant-pollinator relationships between selected flowering plants and their pollinators on Mt. Cameroon. The research is focused on…
Artificial drainage ditches as refuges of dragonflies
Recently, our new study on biodiversity of dragonflies at post-mining sites has been published. During his Bachelor thesis Filip Tichánek, the first author, surveyed communities of dragonflies along drainage ditches of the uniquely dense network of the Radovesická spoil heap. The study…
New grant for pollination in Afrotropics!
The Czech Science Foundation has announced that our grant application “Structure and specialization of pollination networks along a tropical altitudinal gradient: a path to understanding biodiversity evolution” was successful! It will allow us to spend some time in Cameroon during studies of pollination…
Our Cameroonian students defended their theses
In late summer all our three Cameroonian students defended their Master theses at the University of Buea. Mercy, Kobe and Jennifer spent about four months in the field with us, assissting with our projects and collecting their data under supervision…
The site has just been established
Please, be patient. It will take some time before everything looks perfect…