We are opening a call for three new PhD studentships and one postdoctoral position in our research team, all of them for the pollination biology topics. For more information, check the details here. All the questions, as well as the…
New grants for our research!
Today, the successful applications for the Czech Science Foundation grants have been announced. Our group is involved in three new projects! Stepan got a new project on revealing more details of pollination by birds on Mount Cameroon. Rob is a…
Another field sampling in Cameroon is over
Two weeks ago, Vincent and Sylvain returned from their fieldwork in Cameroon, altogether it was our group’s fourth visit to Cameroon this year. Firstly, they visited the Bimbia-Bonadikombo Community Forest, the last remaining coastal forest in the foothill of Mount…
New publication on entomological collections digitization
Jan co-authored a paper in collaboration with BINCO (NGO focusing on biodiversity conservation) where they evaluate the use of relatively inexpensive compact cameras to digitize entomological collections. Museums often lack the means and manpower to push their massive collections towards the…
Visit of botanical colections in the Netherlands
Yannick, together with Štěpán Janeček, spent the last week in the Netherlands by visiting the national herbarium of the Netherlands based at Naturalis and to visit the Hortus botanicus in Leiden. In the herbarium they were working on further identification…
Critically endangered butterfly at a fly ash deposit
Our detailed study of the Grayling (Hipparchia semele), a critically endangered butterfly with a strong recent decline in Czechia, has just been published in Polish Journal of Ecology. A few years ago, Rob discovered its population at a fly ash deposit…
Another fieldtrip to Cameroon
Vincent and Sylvain are currently in Cameroon for another shorter trip. They are mainly filling the last small gap in our dataset of lepidopteran biodiversity on Mount Cameroon. Currently, they are spending a bit more than a week in the…
Flower visitors of Impatiens burtonii
We have released a video presenting the recent study on the role of long nectar spurs in pollination of Impatiens burtonii (Vlašánková et al. 2017, New Phytologist). You can directly see how the individual common visitors reach the flower spur and how efficient…
Afrotropical Lepidoptera meeting in Krakow
Last weekend, Robert, Vincent, Sylvain, Jan and Mercy attended the Afrotropical Lepidoptera Network meeting organised by Lukasz Przybylowicz at the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals in Krakow, Poland. Together, we presented our work on butterfly and moth diversity along…
Czech Society for Ecology conference
Our group members have participated on organising of the 6th conference of the Czech Society for Ecology; Robert as the main organiser and Jan as the book of abstracts’ main editor. Several other group members presented our research in the form…