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Vojtěch Jarošík Award for 2019

We are pleased to announce the laureates of the 6th Vojtěch Jarošík Award for an excellent student-authored publication in ecology, presented jointly by the Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, and the Czech Society for Ecology.

This year, 20 first-author papers by students were submitted, all published in international peer-reviewed journals in their final form in 2019. This number breaks the record of the relatively short history of the award. However, the quality of the submitted papers has not decreased at all. After the last year’s absence of any submissions from Moravian universities and the dominance of applications from Vojtěch Jarošík’s alma mater, Charles University, this year’s competition was much more diverse. Seven submitted papers from Charles University were equalled by seven from the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, four applications came from Masaryk University in Brno, and one application each came from Palacký University in Olomouc and the Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague.

All applications were evaluated by a committee of 10 senior researchers from key Czech ecological institutions nominated by both award organisers. Each evaluator had to make a difficult choice of three best papers based on their originality and contribution to ecological knowledge. The final results were nevertheless clear. Interestingly, the three awarded papers originated in three different institutions.

The Vojtěch Jarošík Award for 2019 comes to Michael Mikát, a doctoral student from the Department of Zoology, Charles University, for his PNAS study entitled “Polyandrous bee provides extended offspring care biparentally as an alternative to monandry based eusociality”. Interestingly, five out of seven co-authors of the study are still students who helped with the project (some of them already during their high-school studies). On the second place ranked Daniel Souto-Vilarós, an alumnus of the University of South Bohemia and the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, with his Molecular Ecology publication entitled “Faster speciation of fig-wasps than their host figs leads to decoupled speciation dynamics: snapshots across the speciation continuum“. The third place belongs to Lenka Harmáčková from Palacký University for her Journal of Animal Ecology paper entitled “Specialization and niche overlap across spatial scales: Revealing ecological factors shaping species richness and coexistence in Australian songbirds“. All awardees will be invited to present their work at the next conference of the Czech Society for Ecology.

From the submitted studies, it is apparent that many doctoral students of Czech universities are able to produce excellent research publishable in the highest-ranking journals. Let’s hope this will be confirmed in the next years.

First-author student studies published in 2020 will be eligible for the Vojtěch Jarošík Award next year (submission deadline: end of April 2021). More information on the Award, including a list of previously submitted studied, can be found here: www.natur.cuni.cz/biology/ecology/VJ-award

Awardees of the Vojtěch Jarošík Award for 2019

  1. Mikát M., Janošík L., Černá K., Matoušková E., Hadrava J., Bureš V., Straka J. (2019) Polyandrous bee provides extended offspring care biparentally as an alternative to monandry based eusociality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116: 6238-6243. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810092116
  2. Souto-Vilarós D., Machac A., Michalek J., Darwell C.T., Sisol M., Kuyaiva T., Isua B., Weiblen G.D., Novotny V., Segar S.T. (2019) Faster speciation of fig-wasps than their host figs leads to decoupled speciation dynamics: snapshots across the speciation continuum. Molecular Ecology, 28: 3958-3976. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15190
  3. Harmáčková L., Remešová E., Remeš V. (2019) Specialization and niche overlap across spatial scales: Revealing ecological factors shaping species richness and coexistence in Australian songbirds. Journal of Animal Ecology 88: 1766-1776. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13073

Other submitted papers (in alphabetical order):

Biella P., Akter A., Ollerton J., Tarrant S., Janeček Š., Jersakova J. Klecka J. (2019) Experimental loss of generalist plants reveals alterations in plant-pollinator interactions and a constrained flexibility of foraging. Scientific Reports, 9: 7376. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43553-4

Bishop J., Kopalova K., Darling J.P., Schulte N.O., Kohler T.J., McMinn A., Spaulding S.A., Mcknight D.M., Van de Vijver B. (2019) Sabbea gen. nov., a new diatom genus (Bacillariophyta) from continental Antarctica. Phytotaxa, 418: 42-56. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.418.1.2

Diblíková L., Pipek P., Petrusek A., Svoboda J., Bílková J., Vermouzek Z., Procházka P., Petrusková T. (2019) Detailed large-scale mapping of geographic variation of Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella song dialects in a citizen science project. Ibis, 161: 401-414. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12621

Francová K., Šumberová K., Kučerová A., Čtvrtlíková M., Šorf M., Borovec J., Drozd B., Janauer G., Vrba J. (2019) Macrophyte assemblages in fishponds under different fish farming management. Aquatic Botany, 159: 103131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2019.103131.

Kolar V., Boukal D.S., Sentis A. (2019) Predation risk and habitat complexity modify intermediate predator feeding rates and energetic efficiencies in a tri‐trophic system. Freshwater Biology 64, 1480-1491. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13320

Konečná V., Nowak M. D., Kolář F. (2019) Parallel colonization of subalpine habitats in the central European mountains by Primula elatior. Scientific Reports, 9: 3294. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39669-2

Kukla J., Whitfeld T., Cajthaml T., Baldrian P., Veselá‐Šimáčková H., Novotný V., Frouz J. (2019) The effect of traditional slash‐and‐burn agriculture on soil organic matter, nutrient content, and microbiota in tropical ecosystems of Papua New Guinea. Land Degradation & Development, 30: 166-177. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3203

Lastra González D., Baláž V., Solský M., Thumsová B., Kolenda K., Najbar A., Najbar B., Kautman M., Chajma P., Balogová M., Vojar J. (2019) Recent findings of potentially lethal salamander fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 25: 1416-1418. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2507.181001

Macek M., Kopecký M., Wild J. (2019) Maximum air temperature controlled by landscape topography affects plant species composition in temperate forests. Landscape Ecology 34: 2541-2556. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00903-x

Michálek O., Kuhn-Nentwig L., Pekár S. (2019) High specific efficiency of venom of two prey-specialised spiders. Toxins, 11: 687. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins11120687

Mottl O., Plowman N.S., Novotny V., Gewa B., Rimandai M., Klimes P. (2019) Secondary succession has surprisingly low impact on arboreal ant communities in tropical montane rainforest. Ecosphere, 10: e02848. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2848

Procházková L., Remias D., Řezanka T., Nedbalová L. (2019) Ecophysiology of Chloromonas hindakii, sp. nov. (Chlorophyceae), causing orange snow blooms at different light conditions. Microorganisms, 7: 434. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7100434

Šímová A., Pánek T., Gałka M., Zernitskaya V., Hájková P., Brodská H., Jamrichová E., Hájek M. (2019) Landslides increased Holocene habitat diversity on a flysch bedrock in the Western Carpathians. Quaternary Science Reviews 219: 68–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.07.009

Singh P., Těšitel J., Plesková Z., Peterka T., Hájková P., Dítě D., Pawlikowski P., Hájek M. (2019) The ratio between bryophyte functional groups impacts vascular plants in rich fens. Applied Vegetation Science, 22: 494-507. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12454

Thierry M., Hrček J., Lewis O.T. (2019) Mechanisms structuring host–parasitoid networks in a global warming context: a review. Ecological Entomology, 44: 581-592. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12750

Tuma J., Fleiss S., Eggleton P., Frouz J., Klimes P., Lewis O.T., Yusah K.M., Fayle T.M. (2019) Logging of rainforest and conversion to oil palm reduces bioturbator diversity but not levels of bioturbation. Applied Soil Ecology, 144: 123–133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2019.07.002

Večeřa M., Divíšek J., Lenoir J., Jiménez‐Alfaro B., Biurrun I., Knollová I., Agrillo E., Campos J. A., Čarni A., Jiménez G.C., Ćuk M., Dimopoulos P., Ewald J., Fernández‐González F., Gégout J.-C., Indreica A., Jandt U., Jansen F., Kącki Z., Rašomavičius V., Řezníčková M., Rodwell J.S., Schaminée J.H.J., Šilc U., Svenning J.-C., Swacha G., Vassilev K., Venanzoni R., Willner W., Wohlgemuth T., Chytrý, M. (2019) Alpha diversity of vascular plants in European forests. Journal of Biogeography, 46: 1919–1935. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13624

Published: Aug 25, 2020 03:30 PM

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