This and next week, Marketa collects half of her 3-year long experiment. During the last three years, she treated her plots by insecticides, fungicides and manipulated access of large mammals or predators tot he plots. Today, I was invited also to see and assists and become a feeder for billion of mosquitoes. We helped Marketa to collect the biomass, locate all saplings which she was marking throughout the experiment. After a week of work in four or five people, she still has two more localities to visit and collect.
(by Katka)
Treatments in trays after two years 
Seedling to be collected and measured 
Half of each treatment was sampled 
Seedlings packed individually 
Mosquito love this swampy forest of Motovidlo 
Thanks to all who help – many different people every day 
Monitoring of seedlings in the treatment plots – from their first appearance to their death (or collection)
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