Big-data world brings revolution to movement ecology18. 2. 2022 Have you ever been interested in what fish do at night, where they hide in winter, or where that bird that frequently visits your bird feeder flies? The current revolution in animal movement...
Forgotten species go extinct twice15. 2. 2022 We live in an age of mass extinction, with biological extinctions predominantly caused by various human actions. However, in tandem with this process, and sometimes in advance of it, the loss of...
Job: Director of the Biology Centre CAS 9. 2. 2022 Board of the Biology Centre CAS (BC) announces a selection procedure for the position of the Director of the BC.
Trees call for help from birds and predatory insects8. 2. 2022 Forest trees emit scents when attacked by caterpillars and other herbivores. They use these to attract predatory insects and even birds, thus getting rid of their pests. This had only been...
Remembering E.O. Wilson. 30. 12. 2021 Edward Osborne Wilson (1929–2021) a biologist, naturalist, writer, one of the greatest scientific minds of the 20th century, passed away this week. On that occasion here is a personal remembrance...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year22. 12. 2021 Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences wishes you Merry Christmas and in the new year 2022 we wish you good health, happiness, success and a lot of inspiration in both professional and...
Book Applied ecology published in English by Springer16. 12. 2021 Book Applied ecology by Jan Frouz and Jaroslava Frouzova, published in Czech by Karolinum Press, Charles University, has been published in English by Springer. The book discusses specialized...
Monitoring of the post-mining lakes in the North Bohemia. New study focused on microorganisms and phosphorus. 15. 12. 2021 Crystal-clear water and dense algal mats covering the lakebed – that is how the littoral zones of newly emerged post-mining lakes in the North Bohemia look like. Water quality and development of...
The Mentoring program 202213. 12. 2021 Biology Centre is launching a new mentoring program, which will start in February 2022. This program lasts 10 months and is appropriate for active Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows working at...
How plants refrain the ''sunstroke'' of photosynthetic apparatus9. 12. 2021 For plants, the only source of energy for all life functions is the light of our Sun. Transformation of light into a form usable by plants is ensured by the so-called light-harvesting complexes...
