SEMINARS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY 

Seminars take place every Tuesday from 3 to 4:30 PM. If allowed by presenters, the PDFs of talks will be shared later, but presentations will not be streamed live online (except when the Department of Zoology joins, as the large lecture room is out of order during the whole winter term). Note that locations of seminars vary.

If not specified otherwise, the primary language of all seminars is English.

For further information contact Tereza Petrusková (tereza.petruskova@natur.cuni.cz)

  • 1 October
    Introductory information for students: courses and events in winter semester 2024 (B2P lecture room)
  • 8 October
    Christian Tudorache (Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands) Coping with the clock - biological clock function is linked to proactive and reactive personality types. (B2P lecture room)
  • 15 October
    Walter Durka
    (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany) UFZ Nationwide assessment of genetic variation of grassland plants as basis for the development of generalized seed transfer zones, an introduction to the German RegioDiv project. (with Dept of Botany; Krajinova lecture room)
  • 22 October
    Presentations of 1st year MSc students (B2P lecture room)
  • 29 October
    Presentations of 1st year MSc students
    (B2P lecture room)
  • 5 November
    Henrik Brumm
    (Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Seewiesen, Germany) A bird's eye view on urban ecology. (online for the Dept. of Zoology; B312 lecture room)
  • 7 – 8 November
    PhD Meeting – Presentations of 1st and 3rd year PhD students
    (Kostelec nad Černými Lesy castle)
  • 12 November
    Christos Astaras
    (Forest Research Institute, Greece) Passive acoustic monitoring as a valuable addition to the toolbox of ecologists and conservationists. (B312 lecture room)
  • 19 November
    Juan Carlos Illera
    (University of Oviedo, Spain) What are we learning on speciation and extinction from Macaronesia? (online for the Dept. of Zoology; B312 lecture room)
  • 26 November
    Kateřina Sam
    (Biology Centre CAS, Czechia) How do the birds and bats serve to trees? (with Depts. of Zoology and Botany; Krajinova lecture room. Benátská)
  • 3 December
    Manuel Steinbauer
    (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Biodiversity dynamics from human dominated systems to the fossil record (with Depts. of Zoology and Botany; Krajinova lecture room, Benátská)
  • 10 December
    UNCE
    - seminar of the Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics (with Depts. of Zoology and Botany; Krajinova lecture room, Benátská)         
  • 17 December
    Department Christmas trip
  • 7 January
    Poster session – Presentation of 2nd year MSc students (location will be announced)

Seminar of the Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics

Winter Semester 2024

(presentation of “junior“ team members of UNCE SCI/006 and their research; joint seminar of the departments of ecology, botany and zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University)

Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 3 to 4:30 PM

Krajinova lecture room, Benátská 2

  • Jan Kollár (Dept. of Ecology): Diatoms and cryptic species diversity
  • Martin Hora (Dept. of Anthropology and Human Genetics): Origins of persistence hunting in hominin evolution
  • Jakub Vlček (Dept. of Botany): Whole genome duplication increases genetic diversity and load in Arabidopsis arenosa
  • Olga Vindušková (Institute for Environmental Studies): Negative response of plants, soil and soil biota to more persistent precipitation regimes

Presentations of 1st year MSc students, 22 October

  • Lucia Karasová: Temporal changes in avian community composition in the Velký and Malý Tisý Nature Reserve
  • Tereza Srpová: Effect of environmental heterogeneity on bird populations of Třeboňsko wetlands
  • Artem Leščinskij: Relationship between climatic niche width and diversification parameters

Presentations of 1st year MSc students, 29 October

  • Klečková Barbora: Invasive Daphnia species in Czech ponds and factors affecting their occurrence
  • Ervín Perthen: Do shifts of dragonflies phenology and distribution (areals) in Czechia reflect climatic change?
  • Václav Jůzek: Is climate change driving the reacidification of mountain lakes?