After showing the unxepectedly great potential of drainage ditches of the Radovesická spoil heap for conservation of communities of headwaters dragonflies and damselflies, Filip has focused in more detail on the endangered damselfly Coenagrion ornatum, the most threatened odonate species found. Just…
Two new butterflies from Mt. Cameroon
Recently, our description of two new butterfly species has been published in the Zootaxa journal. Both newly described butterflies were discovered during our projects at the middle elevations of Mt. Cameroon, neither of them are known to occur anywhere else in the world. Ceratrichia…
Filip got the Dean’s award!
Together with the Master of Sciences (Mgr. in Czech) degree, Filip was also awarded with the Dean’s award for his outstanding master thesis. Congratulations! Currently, the first manuscript from his thesis focused on use and restoration of secondary habitats of the endangered damselfly Coenagrion…
Jan’s work in Krakow
This whole week, Jan is working in collections of the Zoological Museum, Jagellonian University in Krakow. He is processing numerous specimens of hawkmoths, skippers and papilionids which we have collected on the slopes of Mt. Cameroon and which our close…
New paper on sunbird hovering
Besides insects, some members of our group are collaborating on the project focused on relationships between flowers and their bird pollinators supervised by our close collaborator Dr. Štěpán Janeček. Already in 2011, we have been collaborating on a study revealing that…
Fruit-feeding butterflies and moths
In Mount Cameroon, bait trapping is one of the main methodological approaches. As we are sometimes exposing 180 traps baited in the same time we consider our sampling as the most intensive ever. At the moment, we are finishing the…
New moth records from Cameroon
Cameroonian biodiversity is incredibly rich but still quite unknown. Even basic distribution data are often missing and any faunistic surveys can help towards our understanding of Cameroonian nature. Recently, the most ineresting of our records of moth species have been published. In…
Our research in media
In the last two weeks our findings that recreational activities in sandpits are beneficial for their biodiversity was reported in various Czech media. Our results were popularised by the national TV (thanks to Dr. David Boukal for kind and unexpected…
Back from the Zelezne hory Mts.
A large part of our research team has spent more than two weeks in the Zelezne hory Mts. collaborating on the project led by Dr. Michael Bartoš and Dr. Štěpán Janeček. In collaboration of several research institutions the project focuses…
Recreational activities in sandpits help to conserve their biodiversity
Sandpits are well known strongholds of numerous vanishing species specialised for open sands. Many of such sandy species are, however, endangered by successional overgrowing of abandoned mining places as we have already shown. A just published study, with a contribution…