Laboratory of Evolutionary Ecology

Martin was awarded the Award of the Czech Academy of Science

7/27/2022

Martin Volf, head of Laboratory of Evolutionary Ecology, was awarded the Award of the CAS for young scientific employees for outstanding results of scientific work. He showed that branch-localized induction creates a chemical mosaic in canopy trees, promoting variation in tree chemistry, predation, and herbivore abundance across forest canopies.

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Gibson joins our team!

7/25/2022

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Gibson Aubona has joined our team as a new doctoral student. Gibson has gained his MSc. degree at the University of Goroka where he studied environmental toxicology. He has already collaborated with our lab on several projects on chemical ecology of plant-insect interactions in Papua New Guinea. During his doctoral studies, he will now focus on the chemical defences and biotic interactions associated with temperate and tropical tree species from the willow family.

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New Publications

Mezzomo, P., Weinhold, A., Aurová, K., Jorge, L. R., Kozel, P., Michálek, J., Nováková, N., Seifert, C. L., Volfová, T., Engström, M., Salminen, J.-P., Sedio, B. E., & Volf, M. (2023). Leaf volatile and nonvolatile metabolites show different levels of specificity in response to herbivory. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e10123. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10123
Volf M, Volfová T, Seifert CL, Ludwig A, Engelmann RA, Jorge LR, Richter R, Schedl A, Weinhold A, Wirth C, van Dam NM. A mosaic of induced and non-induced branches promotes variation in leaf traits, predation and insect herbivore assemblages in canopy trees. Ecology Letters. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13943

Leong JV, Jorge LR, Seifert CL, Volf M. Quantity and specialisation matter: Effects of quantitative and qualitative variation in willow chemistry on resource preference in leaf-chewing insects. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12559

Volf M, Weinhold A, Seifert CL, Holicová T, Uthe H, Alander E, Richter R, Salminen JP, Wirth C, van Dam NM. Branch-localized induction promotes efficacy of volatile defences and herbivore predation in trees. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 2021. 47:99-111. DOI: 10.1007/s10886-020-01232-z

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