Mgr. Kateřina Sam, Ph.D.

Maiden:Tvardíková

Job Position: Head of department - Department of Ecology , Head of Laboratory - Laboratory of Multitrophic Interactions

Contact details

Phone: +420 38 777 5279
E-mail: katerina.sam.cz@gmail.com
Web: tvardikova.weebly.com/index.html

Publications
Total found: 101 records
Ismaeel A., Tai A.P.K., Santos E.G., Maraia H., Aalto I., Altman J., Doležal J., Lembrechts J.J., Camargo J.L., Aalto J., Sam K., et al., Plichta R., Abera T., Maeda E.E. (2024) Patterns of tropical forest understory temperatures. Nature Communications 15 : article number: 549.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-44734-0
Ashe-Jepson E., Arizala Cobo S., Basset Y. F., Bladon A.J., Klečková I., Laird-Hopkins B., Mcfarlane A., Sam K., Savage A.F., Zamora A.C., Turner E., Lamarre G. (2023) Tropical butterflies use thermal buffering and thermal tolerance as alternative strategies to cope with temperature increase. Journal of Animal Ecology 92 : 1759-1770.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13970
Diez Méndez D., Bodawatta K.H., Freiberga I., Klečková I., Jonsson K., Poulsen M., Sam K. (2023) Indirect maternal effects via nest microbiome composition drive gut colonization in altricial chicks. Molecular Ecology 32 : 3657-3671.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16959
Hazell R.J., Sam K., Rachakonda S., Yama S., Koagouw W., Stewart A., Peck M.R. (2023) Bird preferences for fruit size, but not color, vary in accordance with fruit traits along a tropical elevational gradient. Ecology and Evolution 13 : article number: e9835.
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9835
Houska Tahadlová M., Mottl O., Ré Jorge L., Koane B., Novotný V., Sam K. (2023) Trophic cascades in tropical rainforests: Effects of vertebrate predator exclusion on arthropods and plants in Papua New Guinea Biotropica 55 : 70-80.
DOI: 10.1111/btp.13160

Documents to download:
Tahadlova_2022 (pdf)
Iova B., Gideon O., Novotný V., Sam K., Kigl M., Koane B., Paul L., Yama S., Jepi S. (2023) Bird Species Diversity, Distribution, and Community Composition in Different Forest Types in Papua New Guinea. Case Studies in the Environment 7 : article number: 1836576.
DOI: 10.1525/cse.2023.1836576
Jonsson K., Thomassen E.E., Iova B., Sam K., Thomsen P.F. (2023) Using environmental DNA to investigate avian interactions with flowering plants. Environmental DNA 5 : 462-475.
DOI: 10.1002/edn3.393
Kik A., Duda P., Bajzeková J., Baro N., Opasa R., Sosanika G., Ré Jorge L., West P., Sam K., Zrzavý J., Novotný V. (2023) Hunting skills and ethnobiological knowledge among the young, educated Papua New Guineans: Implications for conservation. Global Ecology and Conservation 43 : article number: e02435.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02435
Kollross J., Jančúchová Lásková J., Klečková I., Freiberga I., Kodrík D., Sam K. (2023) Nonlethal effects of predation: The presence of insectivorous birds (Parus major) affects the behavior and level of stress in locusts (Schistocerca gregaria). Journal of Insect Behavior 36 : 68-80.
DOI: 10.1007/s10905-023-09820-z
Laird-Hopkins B., Ashe-Jepson E., Basset Y. F., Cobo S.A., Eberhardt L., Freiberga I., Hellon J., Hitchcock G.E., Klečková I., Linke D., Lamarre G., McFarlane A., Savage A.F., Turner E., Zamora A.C., Sam K., Bladon A.J. (2023) Thermoregulatory ability and mechanism do not differ consistently between neotropical and temperate butterflies. Global Change Biology 29 : 4180-4192.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16797
Mrázová A., Houska Tahadlová M., Řehová V., Sam K. (2023) The specificity of induced chemical defence of two oak species affects differently arthropod herbivores and arthropod and bird predation. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 17 : 141-155.
DOI: 10.1007/s11829-023-09951-2
Nimalrathna T.S., Solina I.D., Mon A.M., Pomoim N., Bhadra S., Zvereva E.L., Sam K., Nakamura A. (2023) Estimating predation pressure in ecological studies: controlling bias imposed by using sentinel plasticine prey. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 171 : 56-67.
DOI: 10.1111/eea.13249
Sam K., Ré Jorge L., Koane B., Amick P., Sivault E. (2023) Vertebrates, but not ants, protect rainforest from herbivorous insects across elevations in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Biogeography 50 : 1803-1816.
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14686
Sivault E., Amick P., Armstrong K.N., Novotný V., Sam K. (2023) Species richness and assemblages of bats along a forest elevational transect in Papua New Guinea Biotropica 55 : 81-94.
DOI: 10.1111/btp.13161

Documents to download:
Sivault_2022 (pdf)
Amick P.K., Sam K., Drumo G., Toko P., Novotný V. (2022) Bats can reach 3626 m a.s.l. in Papua New Guinea: altitudinal range extensions for six rainforest bat species. Mammalia 86 : 150-155.
DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2020-0169
Amo L., Mrázová A., Saavedra I., Sam K. (2022) Exogenous application of methyl jasmonate increases emissions of volatile organic compounds in Pyrenean Oak Trees, Quercus pyrenaica. Biology 11 : article number: 84.
DOI: 10.3390/biology11010084
Bodawatta K.H., Klečková I., Klečka J., Pužejová K., Koane B., Poulsen M., Jønsson K.A. , Sam K. (2022) Specific gut bacterial responses to natural diets of tropical birds. Scientific Reports 12 : article number: 713.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-04808-9
Mäntylä E., Ré Jorge L., Koane B., Sam K., Segar S. T., Volf M., Weinhold A., Novotný V. (2022) Ficus trees with upregulated or downregulated defence did not impact predation on their neighbours in a tropical rainforest. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 16 : 285-296.
DOI: 10.1007/s11829-022-09892-2
Pereira C.C., Novais S., Barbosa M., Negreiros D., Gonçalves-Souza T., Roslin T., Marquis R., Marino N., Novotný V., Orivel J., Sui S., Aires G., et al., Mrázová A., Sertić Perić M., Petermann J., Ribeiro S., Sam K., Trzcinski M.K., et al., Fernandes G.W., Romero G.Q., Cornelissen T. (2022) Subtle structures with not-so-subtle functions: A data set of arthropod constructs and their host plants. Ecology 103 : e3639.
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3639
Pujolar J.M., Blom M.P.K., Reeve A.H., Kennedy J., Marki P.Z., Korneliussen T.S., Freeman B.G., Sam K., Linck E., Haryoko T., Iova B., Koane B., Maiah G., Paul L., Irestedt M., Jønsson K.A. (2022) The formation of avian montane diversity across barriers and along elevational gradients. Nature Communications 13 : article number: 268.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27858-5

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