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MSc. Karolína Jackwerth

Research focus:

– Pollination networks
– Altitudinal and latitudinal pollination patterns in tropical Africa and temperate
– Herbivory in meadow communities

Contact:

e-mail: k.jackwerth@seznam.cz
tel.: +420 720 406 937

 

 

CV

Education:

– since 2018: Ph.D. in Entomology, University of South Bohemia
Doctoral thesis: Vztahy rostlin, opylovačů a bezobratlých herbivorů podél altitudinálního gradientu
Supervisor: RNDr. Jan Klečka Ph.D.

– 2016 – 2018: MSc. in Botany (Population and community ecology), University of South Bohemia
Master’s thesis: Selected aspects of the impact of invertebrate herbivores on grassland communities
Supervisor: prof. RNDr. Jan Lepš, CSc.

– 2013 – 2016: BSc. in Biology, University of South Bohemia.
Bachelor’s thesis: Herbivory of terrestrial gastropods as a factor influencing
composition of a meadow community – effect on seedlings.
Supervisor: prof. RNDr. Jan Lepš, CSc.

Professional appointments:

– Since 2019: Institute of Entomology, Biology centre CAS
– 2016–2018: Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia (technician)
– 2016: Summer job at Crocodile ZOO Protivín

Internships and field experience:

– 2018 – Mt. Cameroon, Cameroon; forest pollination networks research (7 weeks)
– 2017 – International Course of Tropical Ecology, Papua New Guinea; insect feeding experiments (5 weeks)
– 2010–2012, Open Science program for high school students, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Science, České Budějovice, Czechia (Impact of predation of caterpillars on their parasitoids’ larvae, supervisor: Mgr. Jan Hrček Ph.D.)

Teaching

PřF JU:
– Introductory course for first-year students (KBE/024, co-instructor)
– Plant-animal interactions (KBE/049, co-instructor)

Conferences:

– Zoologické dny Olomouc 2020 – Pollination networks along elevational gradient Krkonoše: Preliminary results (poster)
– Konference Ekologie 2019, Česká společnost pro ekologii, Olomouc – Specialization of pollination networks along an elevational gradient in the Krkonoše Mts. – Project introduction (poster)

References:

Laboratory of integrative ecology

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