The Ant Lab of Institute of Entomology BC CAS and University of South Bohemia. Ecology, evolution & biogeography of ants in New Guinea, Borneo, Czech & beyond.
Joined March 2015
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Trophic rewilding restructure the insect communities according to their functional traits š¦
A recent study surveyed five insect groups across eleven sites rewilded by large ungulates in Czechia š®
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Postdoc fellowship with me available to compete for to work on ant community ecology (and including field work in Taiwan) antscience.com/.../02/phdkliā¦
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Different feeding preferences for macronutrients across seasons and sites indicate temporal and spatial nutrient limitation in the black bog ant. Article on Formica picea to read as whole is available at: rdcu.be/dE91w
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Exciting PhD studentship opportunities (x2) to work with me on social insect-soil-plant interactions in relation to anthropogenic habitat change (further details: tomfayle.com). Fieldwork in Malaysian Borneo! Deadline 28th February 2024.
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First cross-tropical mountain comparison of changes in community structure of ants and their nutrient use with elevation and season has been published in GEB led by our lab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ā¦
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How many insects and ants are on the planet? And what do we know about ant biomass? Check out our new Commentary Arcticle in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22ā¦
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Species turnover in ant assemblages is greater horizontally than vertically in the worldās tallest tropical forest onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ā¦
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Did you ever wonder how much termites and ants change soil properties in and around their nest in tropical habitats? Here is a new study from our lab highlighting that termites are more important in this respect. sciencedirect.com/science/arā¦
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New study on Overbeckia enigmatic genus from tree canopies and the story behind blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/ā¦
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How to sample and map the dominant canopy ant structure across whole forest plots? See our new Methodological article using as an example the New Guinean ant communities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ā¦
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Can tropical mountain ants change community structure and color just in about a decade due to climate change, or it is rather a simple sampling bias? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ā¦
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24 Apr 2021
My new paper showing how aggression generates ant mosaics in canopies of primary tropical rainforest.
With Jacob Yombai, @Liklikmasalai, Maurice Leponce, George Weiblen, Petr Klimes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ā¦
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A position for Postdoctoral Researcher is available to work on the project: Does competition really structure ant communities in tropical forest canopies? antscience.com/opportunitiesā¦ Come to work with us on exciting canopy ants in Papua New Guinea
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Tom from our lab speaks of ant-plant mutualism and other interactions among plants and insects findinggeniuspodcast.com/podā¦
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Another one from prof. Laurent Keller on ant behavior is available here findinggeniuspodcast.com/podā¦