Research Goals

Running Projects

Grant agency of the Czech Republic

Thermal niche: evaluation of current concept in ectothermic vertebrates
Investigator: Mgr. Lumír Gvoždík, Ph.D.

Biologie stárnutí a senescence: mechanizmy a dynamika u volně žijících ptáků
Investigator: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Albrecht, Ph.D.

The effects of non-native species on host-parasite relationships
Investigator: doc. RNDr. Martin Reichard, Ph.D.

Linking events through the annual cycle: the importance of carry-over effects for the ecology of migratory birds
Investigator: RNDr. Petr Procházka, Ph.D.

Post-copulatory sexual selection and the biology of sperm: within-population processes and interspecific patterns in passerine birds
Investigator: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Albrecht, Ph.D.

Host-parasite interaction as an extreme form of parent-offspring conflict
Investigator: doc. Ing. Marcel Honza, Dr.

Evolutionary-immunological and ecological aspects of parasitism in hybrid and polyploid cyprinid fish
Co-investigator: Ing. Lukáš Vetešník, Ph.D.

The evolution and life-history consequences of rapid ageing
Investigator: doc. RNDr. Martin Reichard, Ph.D.

Individual projects

The importance of migratory connectivity for the population ecology of long-distance migrants: a model study on the Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)
Investigator: RNDr. Petr Procházka, Ph.D.

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport

Evoluce pohlavních ornamentů a jejich informačního významu: srovnávací studie v populacích s divergentními signálními znaky a preferencemi
Investigator: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Albrecht, Ph.D.

Projekt: „Integrace experimentální a populační biologie pomocí nových metod v mezioborové problematice - cesta k excellenci s mladými vědci“, (reg.č.: CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0048)
Investigator: doc. RNDr. Martin Reichard, Ph.D.

Finished projects

Grant agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Grant agency of the Czech Republic

Adaptive coexistence of distinct life history strategies in fish of the genus Nothobranchius
Investigator: Mgr. Matej Polačik, Ph.D.

Populační struktura, disperze a explorační chování v zóně sekundárního kontaktu myší domácích
Co-investigator: Mgr. Kateřina Janotová, Ph.D.

The role of predator-prey interactions in coadaptation of thermal biology (2010-2013)
Investigator: Mgr. Lumír Gvoždík, Ph.D.

Toll-like receptors in passerine birds: description, characterization of polymorphism and evolutionary consequences of allelic variation
Investigator: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Josef Bryja, Ph.D.

Demography, metapopulation dynamics and ecology of Nothobranchius fishes in Mozambique
Investigator: doc. RNDr. Martin Reichard, Ph.D.

The analysis of the selected immune and physiological parameters in Carassius gibelio,species with different ploidy and atypical reproductive strategy
Investigator: Ing. Lukáš Vetešník, Ph.D.

Personalities, male mating tactics and role of females in sexual selection: studies on fish model systems
Investigator: doc. RNDr. Martin Reichard, Ph.D.

Components of sexual selection in the monogamous Grey Partridge
Co-investigator: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Albrecht, Ph.D.

Reproductive isolating mechanisms in Nothobranchius fishes (Aplocheilidae)
Investigator: doc. RNDr. Martin Reichard, Ph.D.

Genetic structure of black grouse populations in the Czech Republic (2006-2008)
Investigator: Ing. Jana Svobodová, Ph.D.

Genetics (2006-2008)
Investigator: prom. biol. Jaroslav Piálek, CSc.

Phenotypic plasticity of thermal physiology traits in newts (2006-2008)
Investigator: Mgr. Lumír Gvoždík, Ph.D.

Extra-pair fertilizations and the strength of sexual selection in socially monogamous passerine
Investigator: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Albrecht, Ph.D.

Genetic, population and reproductive variability of invazive fish species, Carassius
Investigator: Ing. Lukáš Vetešník, Ph.D.

Individual projects

International projects

Ministry of Environment