Vojtěch Novotný
Head, Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology
Head, Laboratory of Tropical Ecology
Research interests
Ecology of plant-herbivore food webs, distribution of tropical biodiversity and dynamcs of tropical ecosystems.
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Teaching activities
Tropical ecology
University of South Bohemia Ceske Budejovice, Palacky University Olomouc, Charles University Prague
Community ecology
University of South Bohemia Ceske Budejovice
Field course in tropical ecology
University of South Bohemia Ceske Budejovice, Tropical Biology Association Cambridge UK
Recent publications
Miller S.E., Hrček J., Novotný V., Weiblen G.D., Hebert P.D.N. (2013) DNA barcodes of caterpillars (Lepidoptera) from Papua New Guinea. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 115: 107-109.
Hamilton A. J., Novotný V., Waters E. K., Basset Y., Benke K. K., Grimbacher P. S., Miller S. E., Samuelson G. A., Weiblen G. D., Yen J. D. L., Stork N. E. (2013) Estimating global arthropod species richness: refining probabilistic models using probability bounds analysis. Oecologia 171: 357-365.
Novotný V., Weiblen G. D., Miller S. E., Basset Y. (2012) The role of paraecologists in twenty-first-century century tropical forest research. Pp. 154-157. In: Lowman M. D., Schowalter T. D., Franklin J. F. (eds): Methods in Forest Canopy Research, University of California Press, Berkeley, 240 pp..
Basset Y., Čížek L., Cuénoud P., Didham R. K., Guilhaumon F., Missa O., Novotný V., Ødegaard F., Roslin T., Schmidl J., Tishechkin A. K., Winchester N. N., Roubik D. W., Aberlenc H.-P., Bail J., Barrios H., Bridle J. R., Castaño-Meneses G., Corbara (2012) Arthropod diversity in a tropical rainforest Science 338: 1481-1484.
Basset Y., Eastwood R., Sam L., Lohman D. J., Novotný V., Treuer T., Miller S. E., Weiblen G. D., Pierce N. E., Bunyavejchewin S., Sakchoowong W., Kongnoo P., Osorio-Arenas M. A. (2012) Cross-continental comparisons of butterfly assemblages in tropical rainforests: implications for biological monitoring Insect Conservation and Diversity.
