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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.
Ceske Budejovice, Czech Rep
Joined March 2015
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:
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RT @tomfayle: Exciting PhD studentship opportunities (x2) to work with me on social insect-soil-plant interactions in relation to anthropog…
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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
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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
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Species turnover in ant assemblages is greater horizontally than vertically in the world’s tallest tropical forest
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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.
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New study on Overbeckia enigmatic genus from tree canopies and the story behind
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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
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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?
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RT @OndrejMottl: My new paper showing how aggression generates ant mosaics in canopies of primary tropical rainforest. With Jacob Yombai,…
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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? 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
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Another one from prof. Laurent Keller on ant behavior is available here
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Some popularisation of our ant lab in Czech Rep., and the ant science' peculiarities, and beyond.
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New exciting positions (1 postdoc and 3 phds) are available at our lab to work on new ant-related projects in New Guinea and Borneo: Deadline to apply 15th January, 2021.
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More caterpillars in the temperate forests than in tropical rain forests.
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Benefits of ant occupation for ant-trees are reduced in oil palm compared with heavily logged forest in Sabah, Borneo, found our postdoc Mickal Houadria in his project at S.A.F.E.
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