List of articles from archive in month: April 2014
Social anthropologist Luděk Brož: dedicated to the Altai Republic
Having first travelled to the Altai Republic, a land in the middle of Siberia with wild landscape and idiosyncratic inhabitants, Mgr. Luděk Brož, M.Phil., Ph.D. was so enchanted by the genius loci and culture of the region that he abandoned his chemistry studies and became a social anthropologist.
Helena Zdráhalová, 22 April 2014
Invasive plants v. birds: scientists looking for birds in black locust
One topic that is closely followed by ecologists is the spontaneous spread of non-native species in the countryside. Amongst the most well-known of these in the Czech Republic is the black locust tree or bush, which in some areas creates unbroken, impenetrable ‘forests’, destroying the original vegetation. Dr. Jiří Reif and his team from the CU Faculty of Science are currently starting a new study which aims to clarify the effect that invasive plants have on birdlife in the Czech Republic.
Helena Zdráhalová, 16 April 2014
ISSN 1214-5726
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