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Czech TV broadcast on post-industrial sites restoration

Robert TropekTuesday September 6th, 2016 Uncategorized

Robert Tropek speaking on restoration of quarries. © Česká televize

In spring, our group has collaborated on shooting of Nedej se!, the environmentalistic broadcast of the Czech national television. On the last Sunday, there was a premiere of the broadcast. We intensively discuss the current practice of various post-industrial sites restoration with a special focus on contrasting technical reclamation and spontaneous succession. From the points of view of biodiversity conservation, and economic and aesthetic aspects, using of natural processes in the disturbed sites restoration is much more efficient. We prove it by various examples in the broadcast. Although the whole broadcast is in Czech only, anybody interested can find more details for example in our English popular book or in some of our scientific papers.

Zvereva E.L., Adroit B., Andersson T., Barnett C.R.A., Branco S., Castagneyrol B, Chiarenza G.M., Dáttilo W., del-Val E., Filip J., Griffith J., Hargreaves A.L., Hernández-Agüero J.A., Silva I.L.H., Hong Y., Kietzka G., Klimeš P., Koistinen M., Kruglova O., Kumpula S., Lopezosa P., March-Salas M., Marquis R.J., Marusik Y.M., Moles A.T., Muola A., Murkwe M., Nakamura A., Olson C., Pagani-Núñez E., Popova A., Rahn O., Reshchikov A., Rodriguez-Campbell A., Rytkönen S., Sam K., Sounapoglou A., Tropek R., Wenda C., Xu G., Zeng Y., Zolotarev M., Zubrii N., Zverev V., Kozlov M.V. (in press) Predation on live and artificial insect prey shows different global latitudinal patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Janeček Š., Uceda-Gómez G., Janečková P., Tropek R., Fominka N.T., Njie M.M., Mlíkovský J., Kamga S.M., Molua L.L., Ewome F.L. (in press) Food resource partitioning between males and females of Volcano Sunbird Cinnyris preussi on Mount Cameroon. Journal of Ornithology.

Čuda J., Pyšková K., Hejda M., Foxcroft L. C., MacFadyen S., Storch D., Tropek R., Zambatis G. & Pyšek P. (2024) Habitat modifies the relationship between grass and herbivore species richness in a South African savanna. Ecology and Evolution 14: e11167.

Ustjuzhanin P., Kovtunovich V., Delabye S., Maicher V., Sáfián Sz., Streltzov A., Tropek R. (2024) Magnifying the hotspot: Description of nine new species of many-plumed moths (Lepidoptera, Alucitidae), with an identification key to all species known from Cameroon. Zookeys 1193: 25-48.

Uceda-Gómez G., Chmel K., Janečková P., Mlíkovský J., Klomberg Y., Ewome F.L., Molua L.L., Njie M.M., Tropek R., Janeček Š. (2024) Drivers of sunbird-plant interactions on Mount Cameroon: between neutrality and niche-based processes. Biotropica 56: 138-146.

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