Michal Kratochvíl, MSc.

Biology Centre of the AS CR, v.v.i.
Institute of Hydrobiology

Na Sádkách 7
37005 České Budějovice  
Czech Republic
phone: +420 387 775 831
GSM: +420 723 331 847 
email: Michal.Kratochvil@bf.jcu.cz

Date and place of birth:
18.01.1982, Kaplice, Czechoslovakia

 

Education and academic employment:

2000-2003  BSc. at Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Ecology and Hydrobiology (Bathypelagic period in early ontogeny of Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis, L.), supervisor: Doc. RNDr. Jan Kubečka, CSc.)

since 2001 occupation at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice as a student assistant worker

2003-2006  MSc. at Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Ecology and Hydrobiology (Spatio-temporal distribution and feeding patterns of young percids (Percidae) in reservoirs with different regimes, supervisor: Doc. RNDr. Josef Matěna, CSc.)

since 2006 PhD. degree at Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Ecology and Hydrobiology (Distribution and feeding of fry in different habitats of the reservoir, supervisor: Doc. RNDr. Josef Matěna, CSc.)

 

Conferences:

2007 - Fish Stock Assessment Methods for Lakes and Reservoirs (FSAMLR), České Budějovice, Czech Republic; contribution: Boat electrofishing catch relative to electrode arrangement (oral presentation)

2006 - The Fifth International Conference on Reservoir Limnology and Water Quality (ResLim), Brno, Czech Republic; contribution: Vertical distribution and feeding patterns of perciform fry in a shallow, well-mixed reservoir (oral presentation)

2004 - Behaviour and Ecology of Freshwater Fish, Silkeborg, Denmark; contribution: Survival strategies of three sympatric ecological groups of larval and juvenile percids (poster presentation)

2003 - Biodiversity of ichthyofauna of the Czech and Slovak Republics; contribution: Distribution and diversity of fish fry in different habitats of the Slapy reservoir (oral presentation, in Czech)

 

Scientific and professional experience:

Present job (part time): PhD. researcher at the Department of Plankton and Fish Ecology of the Hydrobiological Institute, Biological Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice.

 

2007 - Project “Habitats´ preferences and feeding patterns of littoral 0+ fish assemblages”, Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia” (Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia), applicant M. Kratochvíl

2006 - Visiting researcher, Mississippi State University (Department of Wildlife and Fisheries), Mississippi (cooperation with Prof. L. E. (Steve) Miranda, electrofishing)

since 2006 - Participation in the project “Patterns and reasons of different pelagic behaviour of perch fry: novel insight into the declared ecological plasticity of a species” (GA CR), awarded to Dr. Martin Čech

Research interests include ecology of larval and juvenile fish, their foraging strategies and generally fish-zooplankton interactions; diet and morphometric analyses; trawling; electrofishing.

 

Skills and interests:
- languages - English - advanced, German - intermediate, Spanish - basic

- computer skills: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and Internet Browser; Statistic programs: Statistica, CANOCO; Graphics programs: Sigma Plot, GraphPad Prism, Photoshop, Coreldraw

- working with the electricity equipment, electrofishing, electric field theory

interests: soccer, ice hockey, fishing, rock-climbing, animals, mountains, travelling – visited countries (out of Europe): 2004 - Venezuela, Tunisia; 2005 - USA (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York); 2006 - Thailand, Cambodia, USA (Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama); 2008 - Egypt

 

Scientific publications (impact papers):

Hladík, M., Kubečka, J., Mrkvička, T., Čech, M., Draštík, V., Frouzová, J., Hohausová, E., Matěna, J., Matěnová, V., Kratochvíl, M., Peterka, J., Prchalová, M. & Vašek, M. (2008). Effects of the construction of a reservoir upon the fish assemblage in an inflow river. Czech Journal of Animal Sciences 53(12), 534-547.

Kratochvíl, M., Peterka, J., Kubečka, J., Matěna, J., Vašek, M.,Vaníčková, I., Čech, M. & Seďa, J. (2008). Diet of larvae and juvenile perch, Perca fluviatilis performing diel vertical migrations in a deep reservoir. Folia Zoologica 57(3), 313-323.

Miranda, L. E. & Kratochvíl, M. (2008). Boat electrofishing relative to electrode arrangement. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137, 1358-1362.

Prchalová, M., Kubečka, J., Vašek, M., Peterka, J., Seďa, J., Jůza, T., Říha, M., Jarolím, O., Tušer, M., Kratochvíl, M., Čech, M., Draštík, V., Frouzová, J. & Hohausová, E. (2008). Distribution patterns of fishes in a canyon-shaped reservoir. Journal of Fish Biology 73, 54-78.

Prchalová, M., Kubečka, J., Čech, M., Frouzová, J., Draštík, V., Hohausová, E., Jůza, T., Kratochvíl, M., Matěna, J., Peterka, J., Říha, M. & Vašek, M. (2008). The effect of depth, distance from dam and habitat choice on the spatial distribution of fish in a canyon-shaped reservoir. Ecology of Freshwater Fish (accepted).

Prchalová, M., Kubečka, J., Říha, M., Mrkvička, T., Vašek, M., Jůza, T., Kratochvíl, M., Peterka, J., Draštík, V. & Křížek, J. (2008). Size selectivity of standardized multimesh gillnets in sampling coarse European species. Fisheries Research (accepted).

Říha, M., Kubečka, J., Mrkvička, T., Prchalová, M., Čech, M., Draštík, V., Frouzová, J., Hladík, M., Hohausová, E., Jarolím, O., Jůza, T., Kratochvíl, M., Peterka, J., Tušer, M., & Vašek, M. (2008). Efficiency of beach seine of different length. Aquatic Living Resources 21, 411-418.

Čech, M., Kubečka, J., Frouzová, J., Draštík, V., Kratochvíl, M. & Jarošík, J. (2007). Impact of flood on distribution of bathypelagic perch layer along the longitudinal profile of large canyon-shaped reservoir. Journal of Fish Biology 70, 1109-1119.

Čech, M., Kubečka, J., Frouzová, J., Draštík, V., Kratochvíl, M., Matěna, J. & Hejzlar, J. (2007). Distribution of the bathypelagic perch fry layer along the longitudinal profile of two large canyon-shaped reservoirs. Journal of Fish Biology 70, 141-154.

Čech, M., Kratochvíl, M., Kubečka, J., Draštík, V. & Matěna, J. (2005). Diel vertical migrations of bathypelagic perch fry. Journal of Fish Biology 66, 685-702.

 

Publications with no IF:

Kubečka, J., Matěna, J., Čech, M., Draštík, V., Frouzová, J., Hohausová, E., Jarolím, O., Jůza, T., Kratochvíl, M., Muška, M., Peterka, J., Prchalová, M., Říha, M., Tušer, M., Vašek, M. (2007). Jak vlastně studovat rybí obsádky našich velkých nádrží? [How shall we study the fish stock of our large water reservoirs?]. In: Švátora, M. (ed.), X. česká ichtyologická konference, sborník referátů z vědecké konference s mezinárodní účastí, Praha, June 26–27, 2007. Univerzita Karlova, Praha, ISBN 978–80–86561–82–0: pp. 92–94.

Draštík, V., Kubečka, J., Jůza, T., Jarolím, O., Hladík, M., Kratochvíl, M., Prchalová, M., Říha, M. & Tušer, M. (2006). Diverzita a prostorová distribuce tohoročního plůdku v nádržích vltavské kaskády [Fish diversity and spatial distribution of YOY fish in Vltava cascade reservoirs]. In: Lusk, S., Lusková, V., Halačka, K. (eds.): Biodiversity of fishes in the Czech Republic (VI). – Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno 2006, 29-34. (in Czech with English summary).

Jůza, T., Kubečka, J., Čech, M., Vašek, M., Peterka, J., Draštík, V., Jarolím, O., Prchalová, M., Kratochvíl, M. & Frouzová, J. (2006). Open water fish fry community in late summer. In: Book of Abstracts, The 5th International Conference on Reservoir Limnology and Water Quality, Brno, August 2006, 98-100.

Kratochvíl, M., Matěna, J., Čech, M., Kubečka, J., Seďa, J.
(2006) Vertical distribution and feeding patterns of perciform fry in a shallow, well-mixed reservoir: a 24-hour study. In: Book of Abstracts, 5th International Conference on Reservoir Limnology and Water Quality, Brno, August 27–31, 2006. Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Hydrobiology, České Budějovice; Centre for Cyanobacteria and Their Toxins, Masaryk University Brno. ISBN 80–86188–23–X: pp. 88.

Kubečka, J., Čech, M., Říha, M., Jůza, T., Frouzová, J., Draštík, V., Hladík, M., Kratochvíl, M., Prchalová, M., Tušer, M. & Vašek, M. (2006). Rybí obsádka nádrže Orlík po prvních létech provozu jaderné elektrárny Temelín. In: Hanslík J. a Miller B. (eds.), Radionuklidy a ionizující záření ve vodním hospodářství, Sborník XIX. konference. Česká vědeckotechnická vodohospodářská společnost, Praha 2006, 85-96.

Kratochvíl, M., Kubečka, J. & Matěna, J. (2004). Distribution and diversity of fish fry in different habitats of the Slapy reservoir. In: Lusk, S., Lusková, V., Halačka, K. (eds.): Biodiversity of fishes in the Czech Republic (V). – Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, pp 107-112 (in Czech with English summary).

Matěna, J., Čech, M., Draštík, V., Frouzová, J., Kratochvíl, M., Kubečka, J., Peterka, J. & Vašek, M. (2003). Distribution of Young-of-the-year percids in European reservoirs. PERCIS III. The third international percid fish symposium, July 20-24 2003, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Hladík, M., Kubečka, J., Pokorný, P., Čech, M., Draštík, L., Kratochvíl, M., Peterka, J., Prchalová, M. & Vašek, M. (2002). Giant traps for fishing in the inflow-zone of the Římov reservoir. In Spurny, P., ed. The 5th Czech Conference of Ichthyology. Brno: Mendel Univ. of Agriculture & Forestry, pp. 126-131.

 

Others

Kratochvíl, M., Kubečka, J., Vašek, M., Jůza, T., Draštík, V., Frouzová, J. & Jarolím, O. (2008). Ichtyologický průzkum největšího rakouského jezera. Rybářství 7, 76-78.

Kratochvíl, M. (2007). Za rybami do Kambodžského království. Rybářství 4, 84-87. 

Kubečka, J., Kratochvíl, M., Čech, M., Matěna J. & Draštík, V. (2004). Za tajemstvím slapských odrazových vrstev. Rybářství 2, 36-37.