For already a few years, our group collaborates in research of a pollination system of Hypoestes aristata plant in the Cameroonian Bamenda Highlands. We have already revealed the carpenter bee Xylocopa caffra to be its most frequent and efficient pollinator among…
New invasive crayfish for Czechia
During our long-term research of freshwater communities of lignite spoil heaps in Nortwestern Bohemia, we have also found several adult females of marbled crayfish (Procambarus fallax f. virginalis) in an artificial pool at the Radovesická spoil heap. Simultaneously, our colleagues…
New office in Budejovice
Since the reconstruction of our departmental building of the Biology Centre in Ceske Budejovice is in its final stage, we have finally moved to our new office. After a few years, our last office has started to be insufficient for us…
New publication on efficient habitat restoration for newts
As a by-product of our intensive research of freshwater invertebrates at lignite spoil heaps, we have also sampled enough newts to make an analysis of their needs during restoration possible. Just recently, results of this side project have been published…
New publication on Afrotropical plant distribution
In the past year Yannick has contributed to the creation of RAINBIO during his work for the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands. The RAINBIO is a comprehensive mega-database of georeferenced records for vascular plants in continental tropical Africa. Recently a data…
(Partly) back from Africa
The majority of us are back from Africa. Yannick, Jan, Vincent and Michael Bartoš have returned, mostly unscathed, from their expedition to Mt. Cameroon on Friday. They continued with our research on pollination systems, as well as lepidopteran diversity in the…
New study on spatial dynamics and monitoring of Coenagrion ornatum
In the second publication based on results of Filip Tichanek’s master thesis, we focus on spatial ecology of threatened damselfly Coenagrion ornatum in the drainage ditches of the Radovesická spoil heap. By re-capturing of previously marked individuals, we showed the extreme sedentarity…
Packing for Africa
Currently we are preparing three different expeditions to Africa. Jan, Yannick, Vincent and our collaborator Michael Bartoš are leaving tomorrow, they will spend six weeks on the slopes of Mt. Cameroon. Robert will join an expedition with ornithologists from Prague…
Restoration Ecology in Lille
Last week Robert visited ISA Lille, a French Graduate School in Agriculture and Bioengineering. The whole Monday he gave lectures to master students of the Sustainable Management of Pollution programme. He introduced the importance of various post-industrial sites for biodiversity of (mainly) insects…
Progress in processing of Cameroonian moths
Last week, Sylvain and Vincent visited the collaborating Zoological museum of Jagellonian University in Krakow, Poland. They have carried on sorting and identifying the moths collected at lower elevations of Mt. Cameroon during our expeditions. Simultaneously, they have visited Dr. Lukasz Przybylowicz at…