Ing. Miroslav Čapek, CSc.Position: research scientistResearch topics: ecology and behaviour of birds, bird parasites Department: Department of Avian Ecology Phone: +420 543 422 538 Mobile: +420 728 152 584 E-mail: capekivb.cz BIOGRAPHYI was born and grew up in Banská Štiavnica (Central Slovakia), Czechoslovakia, where I attended elementary and high school. At an early age I was attracted to nature and cut my birding teeth in the 1970s. Following a degree in forestry at a college in Brno I started my career in academic ornithology in the late 1980s, and I have lived in the Czech Republic since.PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUNDEducation- Ing. (MSc) degree, Forestry School of Agricultural College (currently Mendel University), Brno, 1985 - graduate course in ecology, Institute of Systematic and Ecological Biology, Brno, 1988 - CSc. (PhD) degree in zoology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, 1992Work HistoryCurrent Position- 1998–present, research scientist, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v. v. i., BrnoPrevious Positions- 1987, graduate assistant, Institute of Systematic and Ecological Biology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Brno - 1987–1988, research fellowship, Institute of Systematic and Ecological Biology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Brno - 1988–1991, research assistantship, Institute of Systematic and Ecological Biology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Brno - 1991–1993, research assistant, Institute of Systematic and Ecological Biology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Brno - 1993–1995, research assistant, Institute of Landscape Ecology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno - 1995–1998, research scientist, Institute of Landscape Ecology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, BrnoUniversity Teaching and Supervising- 1997–present, lectures on Ornithology, School of Science, Masaryk University, Brno - supervisor of MSc students.Member- Rarities Committee of the Czech Ornithological Society, 1994–2004 - South Moravian Branch of the Czech Ornithological Society - IOC Standing Committee on Ornithological Nomenclature - Scientific Advisory Board under the Czech Committee for the Convention on Biological Diversity (consultative body of the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic) - Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Council No. 6 Ecological-Biological Sciences, 2005-2014National/International Collaboration- Veterinary and Pharmaceutical University, Brno, Czech Republic - Institute of Parasitology, Biology Center AS CR v. v. i., České Budějovice, Czech Republic - Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia - University of Trnava, Slovakia - University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia - Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia - National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica (INBio), Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Campo Grande, Brazil - Instituto das Águas da Serra da Bodoquena, Bonito, Brazil - Departamento de Medicina Veterinaria Preventiva e Saude Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinaria e Zootecnia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR), Vietnamese Academy of Sciences and Technology (VAST), Hanoi, Vietnam - Laboratorio de Invertebrados, Museo de Historia Natural, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, PeruField Experience and Studies- various European countries: 1983–present - Middle East: 1995, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2010 - North America: 2000, 2012 - Australia: 2002 - Southern Africa: 2005 - Western Africa: 2007 - Central America: 2004, 2009, 2010 - South America: 2006, 2011 - South East Asia: 2002, 2010 - Indian Subcontinent: 2011I have participated in 16 research projects and grants since 1993 PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES AND MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS- author/co-author/editor of 10 monographs/books, 55 articles in refereed academic journals, 11 magazine, newspaper and online articles, 36 book reviews, another 23 publications, and 38 research reports - since 1990 I have given 86 specialized lectures, lectures for the general public and conference talks - five TV and radio interviewsSelected Monographs, Books, Book Chapters, Encyclopedia EntriesČAPEK, M., 1994: Birds in Mountain Ecosystems under Pressure of Air Pollution. Acta Sc. Nat. Brno 28 (4): 1-46. ČAPEK, M., Jr., 1994: Birds of Prey, Cuckoos, Gallinaceous Birds, Herons, Ibises, Storks and Allies, Nightjars, Pigeons and Doves, Waders. In: Poleno, Z., Morávek, F. & Sýkora, P. (eds.): Encyclopedia of Forestry. Vol. I: A-O. Ministerstvo zemědělství, Praha: pp. 30, 64, 143, 282, 440, 465, 527 (in Czech). ČAPEK, M., Jr., 1995: Birds, Granivorous Birds, Insectivorous Birds, Owls, Passerines, Swans, Geese and Ducks, Woodpeckers. In: Poleno, Z., Morávek, F. & Sýkora, P. (eds.): Encyclopedia of Forestry. Vol II.: P-Ž. Ministerstvo zemědělství, Praha: pp. 28, 178-179, 329, 418, 560 (in Czech). DANKO, Š., ČAPEK, M, Jr., 2002: Aquatic Warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola). In: Danko, Š., Darolová, A. & Krištín, A (eds.): Birds Distribution in Slovakia. Veda, Bratislava, pp. 497-498 (in Slovak with a summary in English). TRNKA, A., ČAPEK, M., Jr., 2002: Moustached Warbler (Acrocephalus melanopogon). In: Danko, Š., Darolová, A. & Krištín, A (eds.): Birds Distribution in Slovakia. Veda, Bratislava, pp 495-497 (in Slovak with a summary in English). TRNKA, A., ČAPEK, M., Jr. & KLOUBEC, B., 2003: Birds of the National Nature Reserve Parížske močiare Marsh. Veda, Bratislava. 163 pp. (in Slovak with a summary in English) HUDEC, K., ČAPEK, M., Jr., HANÁK, F., KLIMEŠ, J. & PAVÍZA, R., 2003: World Bird Species Checklist: Scientific and Czech Names. Muzeum Komenského, Přerov. 462 pp. (in Czech with a summary in English). KOVALIK, P., PAČENOVSKÝ, S., ČAPEK, M., TOPERCER, J., 2010: Slovak Names for the Birds of the World. SOS/BirdLife Slovensko, Bratislava, 398 pp. (in Slovak with a summary in English). ČAPEK, M., KLOUBEC, B., FOLK, Č., ŠŤASTNÝ, K., PIKULA, J., HAVLÍN, J., 2011: Species accounts (sections on habitat, breeding and food) of 18 passerine species: Corvus corax, representatives of the genera Loxia (3 species) and Emberiza (12 species), Calcarius lapponicus, and Plectrophenax nivalis. In: Šťastný, K., Hudec K. (eds.) Fauna of the Czech Republic, Birds 3/II. 2nd. ed. Academia, Praha: 883-888, 1036-1037, 1044-1047, 1051-1052, 1078-1080, 1085-1089,1092, 1095-1097, 1102-1105, 1108-1109, 1111,1113-1114, 1117, 1120, 1122-1123, 1130-1134, 1137-1138, 1142-1143 (in Czech with a summary in German). KLOUBEC, B., ČAPEK, M., 2011: Seasonal and diel patterns of calling activity in 67 passerine species (introductory chapter Singing activity, text on Field Identification – section on seasonal and diel rhythms of calling activity): representatives of the genera Lullula (1 species), Alauda (1), Motacilla (1), Anthus (2), Troglodytes (1), Prunella (1) Turdus (4), Luscinia (2), Erithacus (1), Phoenicurus (2), Saxicola (2), Muscicapa (1), Ficedula (2), Regulus (2), Locustella (3), Acrocephalus (5), Hippolais (1), Phylloscopus (3), Sylvia (5), Panurus (1), Poecile (2), Periparus (1), Lophophanes (1), Parus (1), Cyanistes (1), Sitta (1), Certhia (2), Remiz (1), Oriolus (1), Garrulus (1), Nucifraga (1), Sturnus (1), Passer (2), Fringilla (1), Serinus (1), Carduelis (4), Loxia (1), Coccothraustes (1) and Emberiza (2 species). In: Šťastný, K., Hudec K. (eds.) Fauna of the Czech Republic, Birds 3/I a 3/II. 2nd. ed. Academia, Praha: 12-13, 48, 56-57, 126, 155-156, 164-165, 206-207, 226-227, 238, 246-247, 280-281, 291, 317-318, 330, 342-343, 352-353, 362, 373, 380-381, 402, 420, 428-429, 438, 444-445, 458-459, 465-466, 471-472, 481-482, 492-493, 502, 512, 520-521, 537, 546-547, 555-556, 571,594-595, 605-606, 614-615, 622-623, 631, 655-656, 677, 684, 691, 699, 706, 716-717, 728-729, 744-745, 751-752, 758-759, 769-770, 814, 831, 895-896, 907-908, 919, 935-936, 953-954, 964, 972-973, 982, 993-994, 1039-1040, 1064-1065, 1083-1084, 1126-1127 (in Czech with a summary in German).ProjectsEctoparasites associated with mountain birds in Costa Rica: linking ecology, biodiversity and geneticsTTM PROJECT Publications20122011 2010 2009 2008 2007 A. V. BOCHKOV, I. LITERÁK, M. ČAPEK: Neharpyrhynchus baile n. sp. (Prostigmata: Harpirhynchidae) parasitizing Turdus leucomelas Vieillot (Aves: Turdidae) from Brazil, International Journal of Acarology 33 (2007) 35-39. 2006 F. DUSBÁBEK, I. LITERÁK, M. ČAPEK, M. HAVLÍČEK: Three species of the genus Pellonyssus (Acari: Macronyssidae) including a new species from Costa Rican birds, International Journal of Acarology 32 (2006) 175-178. 2005 2004 2003 V. MRLÍK, M. ČAPEK JR.: Jeřábek lesní (Bonasa bonasia) ve vrcholových částech Moravskoslezských Beskyd, Crex - Zpravodaj Jihomoravské pobočky ČSO 21 (2003) 114-119. |