Insect Communities

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Rob’s talk in Bonn

Robert TropekTuesday October 30th, 2018Tuesday October 30th, 2018 Uncategorized

On Monday, Rob gave an invited talk at the Biological Colloquium of the Institute of Zoology, University of Bonn, Germany. He summarised our results of analysing almost 50 thousands butterflies and moths recorded during our sampling along the altitudinal gradient of Mount Cameroon between 2014 and 2017. Vincent and Sylvain, the two PhD students currently responsible for the analyses, helped with the talk preparation crucially. Altogether, it was for the first time we put all the data and results together into some concise synthesis. Simultaneously, Rob met our friend and collaborator Marianne Espeland from the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, and together discussed progress on various projects.

Beautiful building of the University of Bonn where Rob gave his talk.

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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