Our new Nature Communications paper shows that caterpillars are NOT safer in temperate regions as believed, if we consider also predation in forest canopies. tinyurl.com/catexNC1 and tinyurl.com/catexNC

Friday (soon to be) lab news — we are thrilled! Huge congrats to Jakub Pawlik for securing funding for his new project in the Belledonne mountain range, exploring how elevation and warming shape spider communities. More here 👇 multitrophicinteractions.blog/2026/03/05/g...

We are back from the conference. It is Friday ... and our new paper just went online! 🎉 The results of the work indicate substantial sub-canopy warming in Southeast Asia, posing potential risks for tropical biodiversity. The work is now out in Geophysical Research Letters.

This week’s lab highlight looks back at the Zoological Days. For our attending students, it was a great opportunity to share ideas, reconnect with colleagues, and celebrate zoology. 🎓Contratulations to Jakub Pawlik for his award for a great poster. 🏆 multitrophicinteractions.blog/.../zoologic...

🎉 Traditional Friday Highlight! Forget about papers this week! We’re are thrilled to share that Anna Mrázová has been awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship 🥳with her ORNISCOPE project! Huge congratulations, Anna — we’re so proud! 🐦✨ tinyurl.com/annaMCSF

🎉 FRIDAY IS HERE AND SO IS … OUR NEW PAPER! 🎉 I’m thrilled to share a brand‑new paper by — K. Korejs, R. Hazell, B. Koane, P. Toko and G. Sosanika. If you’re into island biogeography, functional ecology, or just love birds doing important ecological jobs, this one’s for you. tinyurl.com/Korejs2026

Last few hours for submitting your abstract for European Conference of Tropical Ecology in Passau in February. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this vibrant gathering of tropical ecologists. Act now — and don’t be like me, leaving it for 11 PM tonight! 😅 gtoe2026-passau.de/call-for-abs...

🐦⛰️ What drives dramatic elevational shifts in avian roles within ecosystems? Korejs, @czsam00.bsky.social and colleagues link feeding specialisation to functional diversity along a continuous 200–3700 m rainforest gradient in Papua New Guinea. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/jbi....

It is 300 days until our next conference European Conference of Tropical Ecology in Passau and Call for sessions just opened. gtoe2026-passau.de/call-for-ses...

This was "fun", which I do not plant to repeat .... multitrophicinteractions.blog/2025/04/22/s...

Výbor České společnosti pro ekologii (ČSPE) se ostře ohrazuje proti pozměňovacím návrhům k novele zákona č. 114/1992 Sb., které ohrožují smysl národních parků a oslabují ochranu přírody v ČR. Pokud zůstanou součástí novely, je lepší zákon vůbec neotevírat. Plné znění prohlášení:

It's Friday, after all: New publication of this week is a collaborative paper resulting from the project Oak Bodyguards. multitrophicinteractions.blog/2025/04/11/n.... Thanks to Bastien and Elena for pushing this forward and keeping me on board for years.

Finalizing the work with students, while kicking out the field work ... these days are busy (and the transition between grant-writing and the approaching submission is painful). multitrophicinteractions.blog/2025/04/03/s...

Because it is Friday, and what better way to celebrate than with another scientific revelation? We present a new contribution to science. This time, fresh from the hands of "our" postdoc Áňa Máňa and her current collaborators in France. multitrophicinteractions.blog/2025/03/14/n...

Our lab's typical Friday publication with little delay on Sunday ... this time about PNG birds and effect of fragmentation on them. By Kryštof Korejs. multitrophicinteractions.blog/2025/03/10/n... The full story here: journal.afonet.org/vol96/iss1/a...

Beautiful summary of our #ECTE photo competition by Pia Parolin youtube.com/shorts/FLO54...

Day 3 : Our next keynote speaker Emma J. Sayer @panemma.bsky.social will talk about tropical forest productivity, element cycling and greenhouse gasses 🌿

First keynote speaker : the Archeologist, José Iriarte. Let's discover past Amazonian landscapes #ECTE2025

3-5 Sept 2025: 5th International Conference on Community Ecology is coming to Budapest, Hungary! www.akcongress.com/comec/

Trophic interactions can be important drivers of avian functional diversity on tropical mountains. Kryštof Korejs, from laboratory of Multitrophic Interactions, and co-authors, present a new study from Papua New Guinea. multitrophicinteractions.blog/2025/02/10/n...

The PhD student conference was going well. Many nice talks and progress reports. Thanks to Jakub and Krystof for representing our work with their good talks. And finally, for the purpose of many more conferences happening in coming month, we also updated our lab logo.

A few more days to apply! Together with @jcsvenning.bsky.social and as part of @econovoau.bsky.social we're offering this fab 2-yr postdoc position: international.au.dk/about/profil...

Society for Tropical Ecology has the account here too. Follows us for the news regarding to upcoming conference: @soctropecol.bsky.social

New publication from our lab to Animal Behaviour: We reviewed experiments on avian foraging behaviour influenced by olfaction, we described significant biases in bird taxa, geographical focus and methodology, and we suggest future research directions.

New research shows insects consume 6% of leaf biomass in South African savanna-forest mosaics, a hidden force shaping ecosystems! #Ecology #InsectHerbivory #SavannaResearch onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

As the member of the Czech Society for Ecology, I will be re-sharing the take-home messages of the presentations from our last conference - today by Vojtech Lanta.