The paper published in the Journal of Experimental Biology focuses on how the amount of internal ice formation at different temperatures and glass transition influence insect survival in the frozen state at extremely low temperatures.
Recently, scientists used ants as model to study historical biogeography and diversification in the Indo-Pacific.
Theoretical ecologists at the Institute of Entomology develop mathematical models to understand patterns of biodiversity as well as predict eco-evolutionary dynamics of populations exposed to a variety of environmental pressures, including diverse extinction threats. Recently published papers aim to reveal how evolution shapes mate search patterns in populations subject to Allee effects.
Recently, a team of geographers from Ostrava and entomologists from České Budějovice have worked together to trace back the past changes of floodplain forests along the lower Dyje and Morava rivers, a hot-spot of biodiversity in South Moravia nicknamed "Moravian Amazonia". The researchers have found that the most valuable veteran trees hosting hundreds of associated species, many of them...
Researchers from Institute of Entomology and their colleagues collaborate on interdisciplinary projects focusing on eco-evolutionary dynamics driving formation of plant defenses and insect diversity. Their recent work has been published in the prestigious journal, Ecology Letters.
Researchers from several disciplines, many of whom are based at the Institute of Entomology, collaborate on projects combining evolutionary history and plant chemistry to understand and predict the occurrence of herbivorous across rainforest plants. Their recent work has been published in the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The article in G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics focuses on the ability of circadian clock to adapt to various temperatures and describes conserved and unique features of circadian clock genes of two fly species and.
Researchers from the Institute of Entomology collaborate on studies of pollination systems in tropical Cameroonian mountains bringing many interesting results on rather unknown Afrotropical communities. Recently, our study on function of long nectar spur was published in a prestigious journal New Phytologist.
The paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA helps to justify our previously suggested conceptual framework of insect diapause as a dynamic succession of endogenously and exogenously driven changes in physiology.
Body size reductions of ectotherms–such as insects, fish and bacteria–are among the main responses of organisms to climate change. However, the ecological consequences of this phenomenon are little explored. An international tem lead by researchers at the Institute of Entomology of the Biology Centre CAS and University of South Bohemia has simulated long-term consequences of changes in body...
