Insect Communities

Insect Community Ecology Group

The pilot transplant experiment successfully finished

Robert TropekMonday October 29th, 2018Monday October 29th, 2018 Uncategorized

Processing of transplaned organisms at Prunéřov fly ash lagoon. ©A. Landeira-Dabarca

Recently, we have finished the pilot experiment of transplant of zygopteran larvae and algae communities between a fly ash deposit and a sandpit. We were lucky to collect all cages during one of the last warm and sunny days of this autumn. All cages seemed alright, as well as their inhabitants. Although Andrea is still preparing the preliminary results, it seems we will be able to perform the full experiment next year!

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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