Sam Finnie

sam.c.finnie@gmail.com

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 1760, CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Research Interests

Hymenopteran parasitoid diversity
Host-parasitoid interactions
Community ecology
Solitary wasps
Biological pest control

PhD thesis title

Trophic cascades across a latitudinal gradient: The effect on caterpillar-parasitoid interactions

Projects

I am responsible for parasitoid-host component of the global food-web project: LIFE WEBS

Publications

Sottas, C., Reif, J., Kreisinger, J., Schmiedová, L., Sam, K., Osiejuk, T. S., & Reifová, R. (2020). Tracing the early steps of competition‑driven eco‑morphological divergence in two sister species of passerines. Evolutionary Ecology.

Bodawatta, K.H., Synek, P., Bos, N., Garcia‐del‐Rey, E., Koane, B., Marki, P.Z., Albrecht, T., Lifjeld, J., Poulsen, M., Munclinger, P. and Sam, K., (2020). Spatiotemporal patterns of avian host‐parasite interactions in the face of biogeographical range expansions. Molecular Ecology.

Bodawatta, K. H., Freiberga, I., Puzejova, K., Sam, K., Poulsen, M., & Jønsson, K. A. (2020). Flexibility and resilience of Great tit (Parus major) gut microbiomes to changing diets.

Garg, K. M., Chattopadhyay, B., Koane, B., Sam, K., & Rheindt, F. E. (2020). Last Glacial Maximum led to community-wide population expansion in a montane songbird radiation in highland Papua New Guinea. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 20(1), 1-10.

Sam, K. & Koane, B. (2020). Biomass, abundances, and abundance and geographical range size relationship of birds along a rainforest elevational gradient in Papua New Guinea. PeerJ.

Volf, M., Laitila, J. E., Kim, J., Sam, L., Sam, K., Isua, B., … & Weiblen, G. D. (2020). Compound Specific Trends of Chemical Defences in Ficus Along an Elevational Gradient Reflect a Complex Selective Landscape. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 1-13.

Castagneyrol, B., Valdés-Correcher, E., Bourdin, A., Barbaro, L., Bouriaud, O., Branco, M., … Mrazova, A. … Sam, K., … Tahadlova, M., … & Eötvös, C. B. (2020). Can School Children Support Ecological Research? Lessons from the Oak Bodyguard Citizen Science Project. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 5(1).

Bodawatta, K. H., Puzejova, K., Sam, K., Poulsen, M., & Jønsson, K. A. (2020). Cloacal swabs and alcohol bird specimens are good proxies for compositional analyses of gut microbial communities of Great tits (Parus major). Animal Microbiome, 2(1), 1-13.

Aslam, M., Nedvěd, O., & Sam, K. (2020). Attacks by predators on artificial cryptic and aposematic insect larvae. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata.

McCaig, T., Sam, L., Nakamura, A., & Stork, N. E. (2020). Is insect vertical distribution in rainforests better explained by distance from the canopy top or distance from the ground?. Biodiversity and Conservation, 1-23.

K. Sam, B. Koane, L. Sam, A. Mrazova, S. Segar, M. Volf, M. Moos, P. Simek, M. Sisol, V. Novotny (2020) Insect herbivory and herbivores of Ficus species along a rainforest elevational gradient in Papua New Guinea. Biotropica.

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