Research Interests

• Diversity and taxonomy of parasitoids
• Parasitoids of caterpillars
• Multitrophic interactions

PhD thesis title

• Community structure of caterpillar parasitoids from tropical rain forest. ( Vojtech Novotny – supervisor, Jan Hrcek – co-supervisor

Publications

Szefer P., Carmona C., Chmel K., Konečná M., Libra M., Molem K., Novotný V., Segar S. T., Švamberková E., Topliceanu T., Lepš J. (2017) Determinants of litter decomposition rates in a tropical forest: functional traits, phylogeny and ecological succession. Oikos 126 : 1101-1111. DOI: 10.1111/oik.03670

Volf M., Pyszko P., Abe T., Libra M., Kotásková N., Šigut M., Kumar R., Kaman O., Butterill P. T., Šipoš J., Abe H., Fukushima H., Drozd P., Kamata N., Murakami M., Novotný V. (2017) Phylogenetic composition of host plant communities drives plant-herbivore food web structure. Journal of Animal Ecology 86 : 556-565. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12646