In the last week, Jan, Karolina (new PhD student coming to our group in the next weeks), Hernani (our fresh new postdoc) and our friend Krystof Chmel participated on a tree climbing course organised by Slávek Hoblík from Geokes.cz. During…
Biology of Butterflies 2018 in Bangalore
Last week, Robert has participated at the 8th Conference on Biology of Butterflies in Bangalore, India. Together with Marianne Espeland, they have organised the first symposium of the meeting entitled Interacting Butterflies: From Genes to Communities. It was opened by…
Honza Filip successfully defended bachelor thesis
On Friday, Honza Filip has successfully (i.e. with the best evaluation) defended hi Bachelor thesis entitled “Influence of landscape fragmentation on characteristics of pollination networks in meadows”. Under supervison of Robert and Stepan, has critically reviewed published results on pollination…
Student excursion to South Bohemian sandpits
On Monday, a few members of our group, together with some students of our department, attended an excursion to South Bohemian sand pits led by Jiří Řehounek and Robert. Firstly, Klára Řehounková from University of South Bohemia showed us their…
New paper on microtopographic heterogeneity in postmining sites
Together with the group of Jan Frouz, especially his PhD student Jabbar “Roj” Moradi, we performed a comparison of biodiversity of several groups of terrestrial arthropods of differently restored plots at the Velká Podkrušnohorská spoil heap, one of the largest…
Our field project in fly ash lagoons has started
Last week, a part of us have spent in the field by checking and selecting potential localities for our new project on biodiversity of human-made freshwater habitats. Pavel and Rob accompanied several members of David Boukal’s group in their 1,600…
Biodiversity of naturally burnt forests
In the last weekend, Pavla has started with sampling of material for her master thesis. She focuses on influence of forest fires on biodiversity of moths, she thus samples material in several burnt openings in pine forests in the Kokořínsko…
New publication on biodiversity of Bimbia forest
We have collaborated on a recently published study on biodiversity of the Bimbia Bonadikombo Community Forest (BBCF) in southwestern Cameroon. BBCF is one of the very last remnants of a unique Afrotropical habital of coastal forests, making it an important…
Marianne Espeland visited us
Recently, Marianne Espeland from the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn has visited our group. Marianne is head of their Lepidoptera section and an old friend. At both Charles University and Institute of Entomology, she gave seminars on her hottest…
Vincent and Sylvain at Afrotropical Lepidoptera Workshop
Last week, Vincent and Sylvain attended the 3rd Afrotropical Lepidoptera Worshop meeting organised in the Centre ValBio, a research station close to the Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Vincent presented our research of patterns of lepidopteran biodiversity along the Mount Cameroonian…