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
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Trophic rewilding restructure the insect communities according to their functional traits 🦋
A recent study surveyed five insect groups across eleven sites rewilded by large ungulates in Czechia 🐮
Find out more 👇
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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/phdkli…
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
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/…
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.22…
Species turnover in ant assemblages is greater horizontally than vertically in the world’s tallest tropical forest onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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/ar…
New study on Overbeckia enigmatic genus from tree canopies and the story behind blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/…
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/…
Ant Research CB retweeted
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/…
A position for Postdoctoral Researcher is available to work on the project: Does competition really structure ant communities in tropical forest canopies? antscience.com/opportunities… Come to work with us on exciting canopy ants in Papua New Guinea
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. antscience.com/opportunities…
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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Have you ever wonder, how many canopy arthropods you may find per piece of a forest, across temperate and tropics? Check out our new publication in Ecology Letters that took 14 years to collect such standardized data, led by Ondrej. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
First cross-elevational comparison of canopy ant diversity, their nest habits, and community structures have been published by our students @nicplow and @MottlOndrej in Ecography onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… and Ecopshere esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi…. All open access!
