Ondřej Kauzál

Mgr. Ondřej Kauzál

Position: PhD student
Research topics: ecological and evolutionary endocrinology
Department: External research facility Studenec
Phone: +420 560 590 607
E-mail: okauzalgmail.com

Personal webpage

Research topic:

• effect of avian life-histories on steroid hormones concentrations,
• to help get rid off the “temperate zone bias” in avian ecology.

Education:

Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science (Prague, Czech Republic)

• Bachelor in Ecological and Evolutionary Biology (2012 – 2015), thesis topic: Female choice based on coloration and song performance in passerines with sexual dichromatism.
• Master’s in Ecology (Terrestrial Ecology; 2015 – 2017), thesis topic: Signaling function of plumage coloration in Yellowhammer males.
• Ph.D. in Ecology (since 2017), thesis topic: Steroid hormone concentrations, feather growth and life history strategies of passerine birds.

Publications:

2018

Pyšek, P., Skálová, H., Čuda, J., Guo, W., Suda, J., Doležal, J., Kauzál, O., Lambertini, C., Lučanová, M., Mandáková, T., Moravcová, L., Pyšková, K., Brix, H. & Meyerson, L. A. (2018). Small genome separates native and invasive populations in an ecologically important cosmopolitan grass. Ecology, 99(1): 79–90. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2068

2016

Pyšková, K., Storch D., Horáček I., Kauzál O. & Pyšek P. (2016). Golden jackal (Canis aureus) in the Czech Republic: the first record of a live animal and its long-term persistence in the colonized habitat. ZooKeys, 641:151–163. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.641.10946