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.…
Vincent’s visit in Munich
Recently, Vincent spent two weeks in the huge Lepidoptera collections of the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich where all Geometridae collected during our Mount Cameroon project are stored. Thanks to our long-term collaboration with Dr. Axel Hausmann, all…
New postdoc in our group
Hernani Oliveira has recently joined our group as the new postdoc. Hernani is an ecologist and chiropterologist specialised in ecological networks of interspecific relationships. He will support our group in processing of our datasets on pollination networks from both Cameroon…
Pollen DNA sequencing in Krakow
The last two weeks, Jan spent at the W. Szafer Institute of Botany in Krakow, Poland, where he worked on the continuation of his metabarcoding of pollen grains sampled from Mount Cameroonian butterflies. Extracted pollen samples, collected from 250 individual…