This review in the special issue of Advances in Ecological Research summarizes existing arthropod monitoring schemes and consider some innovative avenues for future research that promise to improve monitoring of insects in tropical ecosystems.
This special issue of Advances in Ecological Research brings together papers describing these anthropogenic threats, including the impacts of habitat change, altered fire regimes and climate change.
Our study published in prestigious journal Molecular Biology and Evolution thoroughly describes evolution of insect insulin receptors, origin of two groups of decoys of insulin receptors and experimentally explores role of insulin signaling in wing polymorphism.
This article explores an intriguing behavioral program enabling the giant silkworm (Hyalophora cecropia) to successfully construct its complex silk cocoon to survive the harsh overwintering conditions.
Our new paper, published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, brings the very first insight into the evolution of aquatic insects in the Caucasus.
The article in Frontiers in Zoology reports isolation of genes expressed in enigmatic organs of insect embryos called pleuropodia. Our data bring a transcriptomic support for the eighty years-old hypothesis that the pleuropodia secrete enzymes that digest a part of the egg envelopes and thus enable the larva to get out of the egg.
Fig.: Sample two sheets from a book Hanč et al. (2019).: The Meleager's blue is rare in South Bohemia. It used to be more widespread in the past, currently the species occupies only two faunistic grid-squares. The book shows distribution of 144 Lepidoptera species recorded in South Bohemia, Czech Republic. Whereas the region is regarded as a romantic place with natural landscapes,...
The study in Ecography investigates the effects of elevation on tropical arboreal ant communities for the first time. It reveals a strong mid-elevation peak in ant species diversity in rainforest canopies, mediated by shifts in the interspecies competition and nesting preferences.
In order to develop an understanding of the role of adjuvants in a popular glyphosate-based herbicide – Roundup® Concentrate Plus (RCP), on non-target organisms, the effects of pure glyphosate [N-(phosphonomethyl)-glycine], RCP and a non-ionic surfactant – polyethoxylated tallowamine (POEA) were studied in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
The article in Ecology Letters show the phenology changes of European and American butterflies towards latitude.
