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.

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

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

Researchers and research technicians

Master and bachelor students, assistants

Karthik Thrikkadeeri – Master student

Bonny Koane – Research assistant, paraecologist

Previous lab members

Sreekar Rachakonda

Adela Kotounova

Legi Sam

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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