doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Adámek, CSc.


Position: grant funded researcher
Research topics: ecology of fish
Department: Research facility Brno
Phone: +420 543 422 523
Mobile: +420 728 006 599
E-mail: adamekivb.cz

Personal webpage

Research interests

  • fish feeding ecology,
  • fish and environment impacts and relationships,
  • applied hydrobiology.

Education

  • 1967-1974: undergraduate study - J.E. Purkyně University Brno, Faculty of Science, Biology, specialization zoology. Diploma thesis: The impact of warm effluent waters upon the biology of the Oslava River, (supervisor F. Kubíček).
  • 1974-1976: specialization Fisheries - University of Agriculture Brno. Thesis: Condition and haematological parameters in common carp fingerlings during the period of overwintering, (supervisor J. Jirásek).
  • 1977–1980: PhD study - Feeding biology of herbivorous fish and their impact upon the conditions of water environment.

Employment

  • 1991-present: South Bohemiam University, České Budějovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters USB, Laboratory of Pond Aquaculture - research scientist,
  • 2005–present: Institute of Vertebrate Biology, ASCR Brno - research scientist.

Current Ph.D. student

  • Libor Mikl: Food competition between the species of the family Gobiidae and native fish species of the lower Morava River drainage area.

Publications

2013

Adámek Z., Zahrádková S., Jurajda P., Bernardová I., Jurajdová Z., Janáč M., Němejcová D.: The response of benthic macroinvertebrate and fish assemblages to human impact along the lower stretch of the rivers Morava and Dyje (Danube basin, Czech Republic), Croatian Journal of Fisheries 71 (2013) 93-115.


2012

Orendt C., Wolfram G., Adámek Z., Jurajda P., Schmitt-Jansen M.: The response of macroinvertebrate community taxa and functional groups to pollution along a heavily impacted river in Central Europe (Bilina River, Czech Republic), Biologia 67 (2012) 180-199.

Wolfram G., Höss S., Orendt C., Schmitt C., Adámek Z., Bandow N., Grossschartner M., Kukkonen J. V. K., Leloup V., López Doval J. C., Munoz I., Traunspurger W., Tuikka A., Van Liefferinge C., von der Ohe P. C., de Deckere E.: Assessing the impact of chemical pollution on benthic invertebrates from three different European rivers using a weight-of-evidence approach, Science of the Total Environment 438 (2012) 498-509.


2010

Adámek Z., Orendt C., Wolfram G., Sychra J.: Macrozoobenthos response to environmental degradation in a heavily modified stream: case study the Upper Elbe River, Czech Republic, Biologia 65 (2010) 527-536.

Georg W., Orendt C., Höss S., Grossschartner M., Adámek Z., Jurajda P., Traunspurger W., de Deckere E., Van Liefferinge C.: The macroinvertebrate and nematode community from soft sediments in impounded sections of the river Elbe near Pardubice, Czech Republic, Lauterbornia 69 (2010) 87-105.

Jurajda P., Slavík O., Adámek Z.: Monitoring ryb v tekoucích vodách ČR v souvislosti s rámcovou směrnicí 2000/60/ES: plůdek nebo dospělé ryby?, Vodní hospodářství 2010 (2010) 6-8.

Jurajda P., Adámek Z., Janáč M., Valová Z.: Longitudinal patterns in fish and macrozoobenthos assemblages reflect degradation of water quality and physical habitat in the Bílina river basin, Czech Journal of Animal Science 55 (2010) 123-136.

Jurajda P., Slavík O., White S.M., Adámek Z.: Young-of-the-year fish assemblages as an alternative to adult fish monitoring for ecological quality evaluation of running waters, Hydrobiologia 644 (2010) 89-101.


2009

Polačik M., Janáč M., Jurajda P., Adámek Z., Ondračková M., Trichkova T., Vassilev M.: Invasive gobies in the Danube: invasion success facilitated by availability and selection of superior food resources, Ecology of Freshwater Fish 18 (2009) 640-649.


2008

Loyka P., Adámek Z., Janáč M., Huml J.: Nová horní hranice výskytu hrouzka Kesslerova (Gobio kessleri Dybowski, 1862) v řece Moravě (ČR), Bulletin VÚRH Vodňany 44 (2008) 44-47.


2007

Adámek Z., Andreji J., Gallardo J. M.: Food habits of four bottom-dwelling gobiid species at the confluence of the Danube and Hron rivers (South Slovakia), International Review of Hydrobiology 92 (2007) 554-563.

Kortan D., Adámek Z., Poláková S.: Winter predation by otter, Lutra lutra on carp pond system in South Bohemia (Czech Republic), Folia zoologica 56 (2007) 416-428.

Musil J., Adámek Z., Baranyi Ch.: Seasonal dynamics of fish assemblage in a pond canal, Aquaculture International 15 (2007) 217-226.