World’s lakes losing oxygen rapidly as planet warms2. 6. 2021 Oxygen levels in the world’s temperate freshwater lakes are declining rapidly – faster than in the oceans— a trend driven largely by climate change that threatens freshwater biodiversity and...
We support Budejovice Barracudas Cricket Club31. 5. 2021 The Biology Centre is supporting the Budejovice Barracudas Cricket Club in the upcoming season. Most of Barracudas´ players are BC employees and university students.
Dramatic decline in languages and indigenous biological knowledge in Papua New Guinea, the world's most linguistically diverse nation27. 5. 2021 Around the world, more than 7,000 languages are spoken, most of them by small populations of speakers in the tropics. Papua New Guinea (PNG), where nine million people speak 850 languages, is the...
Rewilding a former military training area by large ungulates boosts local butterfly fauna14. 5. 2021 Return of large native herbivores to selected areas is increasingly advocated as a cost-efficient approach to managing natural biotopes that depend on disturbance-succession dynamics and are...
Biology Centre hosts two new MSCA fellows15. 4. 2021 Ahamed Khan and Mingxi Zhou are two postdoctoral researchers who succeeded with their project proposals in a competitive European call for MSCA Individual Fellowship. A total of 11,573 proposals...
Reactive signalling molecules help plants fight disease12. 4. 2021 Each cell produces during metabolic processes various by-products, including molecules possessing reactive oxygen (so called “reactive oxygen species”, ROS). Such a molecules react very readily...
Counting the cost of invasive species31. 3. 2021 Biological invasions — the introduction and spread of a species outside its native habitat — have resulted in at least US$1.288 trillion (2017 US dollars) in associated costs worldwide between 1970...
Silk Road: not only goods, but also plant viruses29. 3. 2021 Plant viruses can spread over long distance by different ways. In the modern history, their expansion was driven mainly by human when trading with plants and their fruits. That has been recently...
Tracking invasions with digital data22. 3. 2021 Large online data sources are increasingly important to understand biological invasions. Emerging fields of conservation culturomics and iEcology have a great potential to inform invasion science...
Fish scales as archives of environmental change19. 3. 2021 Scales have been widely used to determine the age and growth status of fish. As a result, extensive collections of archived fish scales are stored in numerous fisheries agencies, research...
