Insect Communities

Last weekend Rob and Yannick were in the Železné hory Mts. for the first this-year fieldwork in Czechia. Together with Michael Bartoš, Štěpán Janeček and Jana Jersáková, we continued the collection of data on characteristics of pollination networks in the fragmented…

Our collaborator Michael Bartoš has written a popular paper on our joint research of pollination networks in the Zelezne hory Mts. Although it was published in a Czech journal Moderní včelař (“Modern Beekeeper”), any non-Czech speaker can still enjoy Sylvain’s pictures…

BMC Biology journal has released a short video propagation on a recent paper co-authored by Yannick:  

Recently, Yannick has spent a few days at the Botanical Institute of the Czech Academy of Science in Třeboň. There, together with Štěpán Janeček, he focused on pollen tubes of Hypoxis camerooniana, a common plant of montane grasslands of Mt. Cameroon. We selected this…

For her Master thesis, Lucka will be sampling communities of arthropods at the relatively recently abandoned training bombing ranges in the Brdy Mts. Since 1930s the whole mountain range served as a military training area, especially target ranges for bombing created…

Yesterday, a small part of our group has left to Cameroon again. Vincent, Sylvain and Pavel will spend two months in the field, presumably finishing our sampling of both butterflies and moths along the altitudinal gradient of Mt. Cameroon. During…

Last weekend, our group, together with a few close collaborators, met in the Ruda field station belonging to the Zoological Department of Charles University in South Bohemia. We have discussed our plans for the coming field seasons in both Czechia…

Recently our group, with Yannick as the principal investigator, has successfully applied for a student grant by the Grant Agency of the Charles University (GAUK).  The project is entitled “The importance of seasonality in shaping plant-pollinator networks in tropical montane…

This week a new publication on the floristic diversity in the afrotropics, co-autored by Yannick, has been published in BMC Biology using the RAINBIO database. In this paper, spatial variation in floristic diversity and data collection is shown. Furthermore, it also shows the difficulties…

Rob, Jan, Yannick, Pavel and our close collaborator Štěpán Janeček have returned, mostly unscathed, from our dry season expedition on Mt. Cameroon. They continued with our research on pollination systems, as well as lepidopteran diversity in the three higher elevations…