Katka Sam represented the laboratory recently at several events:

In October, she talked about the gender and problems of women in science to Czech TV in a program Bilance – Women in offside (only in Czech).

Just few days after, she presented our most recent work at the Ecology seminar at University of South Bohemia. Abstract: Trophic interactions play a crucial role in maintaining balance and promoting diversity in natural ecosystems. Dis-balance in predator-prey interactions might affect nutrient cycling and even carbon sequestrations, via they change the prey causes on the plants, when the tom-down control from predators disappears. Bats, birds, and ants belong arguably between the most prominent insectivorous predators, which are affected by a climatic conditions and habitat characteristics and whose disappearance might affect the prey populations and later on also plants. But do we really observe such strong effects of the predators on the ecosystem functioning? We tried to answer this question in various systems, in tropics as well as in temperate, in the forest interiors as well at the tops of the trees.

Just few weeks before that, she talked in a main-screening time program about insect, within the program of Czech national TV – FOCUS of Vaclav Moravec (Ze života hmyzu – only in Czech). There, she discussed the topic together with Stanislav Komarek, Jan Frouz, Robert Tropek, Katerina Pixlova and David Storch.