ASCR > Inst. Vertebrate Biology > Dept. Fish Ecology > Martin Reichard – Projects

 

Principal Investigator/Research Fellow

ACTIVE
2009-2013 Personalities, male mating tactics and role of females in sexual selection: studies on fish model systems.
Czech Science Foundation, 5 years, Principal Investigator

2009-2012 Demography, metapopulation dynamics and ecology of Nothobranchius fishes in Mozambique.
Czech Science Foundation, 4 years, Principal Investigator

2008-2010 The European bitterling - endangered or non-native species in Central Europe?
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 3 years, Principal Investigator.

FINISHED
2008 Reproductive isolating mechanisms in Nothobranchius annual fishes
- the roles of mate choice, ecological divergence and vicariance

Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, 7 months, Principal Investigator.

2006-2008 Reproductive isolating mechanisms in Nothobranchius fishes (Aplocheilidae)
Czech Science Foundation, 3 years, Principal Investigator.

2006-2007 Phenotypic correlates of lifetime reproductive success in the bitterling fish
British Ecological Society (Early Carrier Project Grant), 12 months, Principal Investigator.

2005-2007 The impact of mating tactics on individual reproductive success and population parameters in the European bitterling: behavioural and genetic approach
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 3 years, Principal Investigator.

2003               Sperm competition in bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus)
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 9 months, Principal Investigator.

2003 Key for identification of Chinese bitterlings (Acheilognathinae,Teleostei)
Chinese Academy of Sciences - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Exchange Programme, Visiting Scientist (hosted by Prof. Zhang Chunguang, Institute of Zoology, Beijing).

2003 Sperm quality in a freshwater cyprinid fish, the European bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus, Cyprinidae)
Royal Society - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Exchange Programme, Visiting Scientist (hosted by Prof. W.V. Holt, Institute of Zoology ZSL, UK).

2002-2003 Alternative mating tactics in the European bitterling
NATO/Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowship (United Kingdom), 12 months, Research Fellow (hosted by Dr C. Smith, QMC, University of London).

2001 Field experiments in fish ecology and their application in education
FRVS, Czech Ministry of Education, 12 months, Principal Investigator.

Named Researcher

2007-2010 Host specialization and host-race formation in the European bitterling
Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom), 3 years. (PI: Dr C. Smith, University of Leicester, UK).

2006-2008 The role of MHC in sexual selection - observational and experimental study in three model vertebrate species
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 3 years, responsible for experiments on fish (PI: Dr J. Bryja, IVB ASCR).

2004-2008 Species diversity and ecology of selected vertebrates in West Africa
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic), 5 years, responsible for the fish biology part of the project (PI: Dr P. Koubek, IVB ASCR).

2003-2005 Adaptation and coevolution in an unusual symbiosis
Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom), 24 months. (PI: Dr C. Smith, University of Leicester, UK).