Team news
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Management activities to support the biodiversity of arthropods around the Prokop Valley
March 2023: management in the Prokop valley are carried out even during the dormant season
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Zoological days with our abundant participation
February 2023: six contributions at the traditional conference were from our team
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Butterflies of Prague - Atlas of Distribution
January 2023: a new book about butterfly distributions of Prague.
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What do ecologists do in the winter?
January 2023: sorting samples and writing grant reports
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Successful habitation thesis defence by Michal Knapp
December 2022: team leader is associate professor
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Party, party, and party again
December 2022: Celebration of 150 years of the Insect Ecology Team
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The effect of environmental temperature on insect development rate does not differ between sexes
December 2022: Tiit published his meta-analysis in Evolution Letters
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Kostelecké Inspirování
November 2022: four members of our team presented their research at a traditional FES conference
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Help with active nature conservation near Innsbruck
October 2022: management activities to support diurnal butterflies and other invertebrates
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The importance of grassland islands and forest habitats for the overwintering of terrestrial arthropods in agricultural landscape
October 2022: Our multi-taxonomic study published in Biological Conservation
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Monitoring arthropods in nectareous strips successfully completed
October 2022: Data pertaining to the impact of differentially managed flower strips on arthropod communities
Our team participated in the organization of the ECCB 2022 in Prague
September 2022: European Congress of Conservation Biology
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Michal K. and Michal Ř. presented their work at ICE "2020"
July 2022: International Congress of Entomology in Helsinki
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Anička, Adam and Filip continue with their work on artificial ponds for aquatic invertebrates
July 2022: "tents" for aquatic invertebrates in Jevany
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We have new reinforcements, this time from abroad
June 2022: Dr. David Awde and Shahriar Abul Fazal, M.Sc.
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Publication in Global Change Biology and Ecology
May 2022: four team members participated in a world experiment
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Management supporting of Hipparchia semele
April 2022: work in the spring can also be so sweaty
The new TAČR project “flowery strips” is already running
April 2022: long-lived nectareous flower strips for effective biodiversity support in agricultural landscapes
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The Praha kvete project
April 2022: realization, oral presentations, and children programmes
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Publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
March 2022: ladybirds in the most traditional journal of the world
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Reservation V Bahnách under patronage FES-CZU
March 2022: Tomáš Kadlec participates in the entomological monitoring PR V Bahnách
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First year of monitoring in the project mistopromotyly.cz
February 2022: Among the target species, the most common species are Hipparchia semele and Polyommatus thersites
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Research of field defects bring well-deserved publications
February 2022: Field defects artificial and natural…
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Our team have new group members
February 2022: Tom Dvořák has first publication with our affiliation
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Christmas time in the Insect Ecology group
December 2021: This year we got the board games
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Eze is darling in Journal of Applied Ecology!
November 2021: Ezequiel pushed one of his articles to the prestigious Journal of Applied Ecology
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Managements in action
October 2021: A combination of mechanical and manual work is needed for quality care of the site
Congratulations Alfredo!
September 2021: Alfredo Venturo is just starting the second year of his PhD and has the first published article in his pocket
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A place for butterflies - we create new habitats around the Prokop Valley
August 2021: support of endangered butterfly species based on a combination of flexible habitat management and evaluation of detailed biological data
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Cooperation with the Institute of Entomology of the Biology Centre in České Budějovice
August 2021: strength of coagulation of haemolymph and resistance to nematode parasites across different ladybird species
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2021 is the year of the dragonflies
July 2021: thanks to the support of the Prague City Hall this year we launched the Prague dragonfly monitoring project
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The project “Okáčům na stopě” was launched
July 2021: involving the broad public in the study of the population ecology of the critically endangered Hipparchia semele
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Public lesson in front of the National Museum of Agriculture
June 2021: the participants learned interesting facts and news on pollinators, insect biodiversity loss in urban environments and our project Praha kvete
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Blooming of our wildflower strips received a lot of attention from the media
June 2021: finally, our wildflower strips in fields around Prague-Vinoř are in full beauty!
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The Praha kvete project expands even in 2021
May 2021: the educational project focuses on the differences between a short mowed lawn and a flowering area from an insect biodiversity perspective
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Great publication by Tiit Teder
May 2021: Why do males emerge before females? Sexual size dimorphism drives sexual bimaturism in insects
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Additional 30 hectares of wildflower strips sown in cooperation with the company VIN AGRO
April 2021: nectar-rich wildflower strips northeast of Prague
Publishing successes during spring
March 2021: in March, several of our articles were accepted for publication
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Eze’s success in the Journal of Applied Ecology
March 2021: Ezequiel González among the final candidates for the Southwood Prize for Young Scientists for his article
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Interview in the Živá univerzita (Life University) journal
December 2020: detailed description of our activities at the Dívčí hrady site
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November sampling as our last field work in 2020
November 2020: successful autumn light trapping
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We did not let our conference fall – the Kostelecké inspirování 2020 (Kostelec inspiration 2020) conference was online
November 2020: thanks to the contribution of our team members
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Conference Naše příroda 2020 (Our Nature 2020)
November 2020: Michal Knapp and Tomáš Kadlec presented our research and conservation activities at the Dívčí hrady
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Kim Jensen as a new reinforcement for our team
November 2020: Kim will be to join in our research on ladybird physiology and insect life span
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Healthy light in the TV show Nedej se! (Don't Give Up!)
October 2020: Tom in Czech TV show called Nedej se!
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Dragonflies deserve systematic monitoring
October 2020: publication in the top-ranked scientific journal Bioscience
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Alfredo Venturo became a new member of the Insect Ecology Group
October 2020: Welcome, Alfredo!
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31 hectares of flower strips were sown in collaboration with farmers from VIN AGRO s.r.o. company
September 2020: Martin as helper in a tractor
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In the footsteps of rare butterflies
September 2020: it seems that this species is currently even rarer than we thought
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The importance of forest patches for the functioning of agricultural landscapes
September 2020: article in the Journal of Applied Ecology
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Patience brings flowers: the first phase of the Praha kvete (Prague is blooming) project
August 2020: first phase is done
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Monitoring carabid beetles in arable fields from the Prague City Hall
June 2020: the impact of changes in farming management and landscape structure on carabids
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Tomáš Dvořák joins our team
May 2020: Tomáš Dvořák is the new reinforcement of the Insect Ecology Group (with a part-time position).
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Dívčí hrady … everything goes according to the plan
May 2020: reintroduced blue butterflies
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New project investigating the impacts of flower strips on invertebrate assemblages and ecosystem services provision was launched
May 2020: flower strips in agricultural landscapes
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The third year of the freshwater exclusion experiment was launched
April 2020: pond works were launched
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Nectar-rich meadow area in front of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences
March 2020: support for pollinators
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Fruitful March: several interesting publications were published
March 2020: March - behind the stove we climb (and publish)
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New project investigating the influence of black locust cover on moth communities
March 2020: first fieldwork of the year 2020 under supervision of Tomáš Kadlec was lunched
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Successful trip to the Zoological Days 2020 conference
February 2020: Zoological days - we can't miss this event :-)