Team

Our research group consists of researchers and students from the Laboratory of Multitrophic Interactions, Czech Academy of Sciences in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic and Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia and Binatang Research Centre, Madang, Papua New Guinea.

Katerina Sam – Head of the laboratory

Sreekar Rachakonda – Postdoc

Marketa Tahadlova – PhD student

Elise Sivault – PhD student

Sam Finnie – PhD student

Anna Mrazova – PhD student

Xue Xiao – PhD student

Heveakore Maraia – PhD student

Amelia Joyce Philip – PhD student

Sara Fernádez Garzón – PhD student

Ondrej Mottl – PhD student (part time working for our lab)

Jan Kollross – PhD student

Martin Libra -PhD student (part time working for our lab)

Researchers

Irena Kleckova – Researcher

Jitka Laskova – Researcher

Legi Sam – Researcher

Matthias Weiss – Researcher

Master and bachelor students, assistants

Jan Lenc – Bachelor student

Katerina Puzejova – Master student

Veronika Rehova – Bachelor student

Bonny Koane – Research assistant, paraecologist

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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