Current projects
Modelling individual life histories and population dynamics of predatory
aquatic insects: the role of body size (PI, 2009-2012)
Combination of laboratory and mesocosm experiments and mathematical models with
the aim to better understand the ecological and evolutionary processes that
shape life histories and community dynamics of predatory freshwater insects in
small fishless water bodies in Central Europe.
Funding: Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant
How plastic are freshwater insects? Measuring growth, phenotypic plasticity
and evolution in selected taxa (PI, 2010-2013)
In collaboration with the members of the
PapLab, we aim to obtain data on life-history variation in several
groups of freshwater insects. We will analyze existing datasets on bugs and mayflies
and carry out several laboratory experiments to disentangle plastic and genetic
components of observed variation in age and size at life-history transitions in
several model taxa.
Funding: Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
Size selection and energy budgets: a unified model of evolutionary responses to predation risk (co-PI,
2010-2011)
Collaboration with a fairly self-explanatory title. A little joint venture with
Andrew Beckerman's group
in Sheffield, UK.
Funding: International Joint Projects, Royal Society, UK
Recent projects
Monitoring man-made lakes: what can fisheries data and models tell us? (PI,
2009-2010)
Collaboration with the FishEcU group
at the Institute of Hydrobiology in Ceske
Budejovice and Institute of Marine Research in
Bergen, Norway. This project has summarized what is known on the long-term
dynamics of several fish stocks in selected Czech man-made lakes and linked
these data to models of optimal exploitation based on stakeholder preferences
and models of fisheries-induced life history evolution. Link to the project website
is here.
Funding: EEA Grants + Norway Grants
Contact information:
Biology Centre AS CR, Institute of Entomology, Laboratory of Theoretical Ecology
Branisovska 31, CZ-37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
tel: +420 387 772 327, fax: +420 387 775 367
email: my_surname AT entu dot cas dot cz
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