Mgr. Richard Čtvrtečka, Ph.D.

Job Position: Research Assistant - Laboratory of Tropical Ecology

Contact details

E-mail: richard.ctvrtecka@seznam.cz

Description

insect monitoring, ecology of herbivorous insect, tropical ecology

Publications
Total found: 13 records
Souto-Vilarós D., Basset Y. F., Blažek P., Laird-Hopkins B., Segar S.T., Navarro-Valencia E., Zamora A.C., Campusano Y., Čtvrtečka R., Savage A.F., Perez F., Lopez Y., Bobadilla R., Silva J.A.R., Lamarre G. (2024) Illuminating arthropod diversity in a tropical forest: Assessing biodiversity by automatic light trapping and DNA metabarcoding. Environmental DNA 6 : article number: e540.
DOI: 10.1002/edn3.540
Basset Y. F., Blažek P., Souto-Vilarós D., Vargas G., Silva J.A.R., Barrios H., Perez F., Bobadilla R., Lopez Y., Čtvrtečka R., Šípek P., Solís A., Segar S.T., Lamarre G. (2023) Towards a functional classification of poorly known tropical insects: The case of rhinoceros beetles (Coleoptera, Dynastinae) in Panama. Insect Conservation and Diversity 16 : 147-163.
DOI: 10.1111/icad.12613
Basset Y. F., Ré Jorge L., Butterill P. T., Lamarre G., Dahl C. N., Čtvrtečka R., Gripenberg S., Lewis O., Barrios H., Brown J. W., et al., Kaman O., Klimeš P., Knížek M., Miller S., Morse G.E., Novotný V., et al., Weiblen G., Wright S., Segar S.T. (2021) Host specificity and interaction networks of insect feeding on seeds and fruits in tropical rainforests. Oikos 130 : 1462-1476.
DOI: 10.1111/oik.08152
Basset Y. F., Čtvrtečka R., Dahl C. N., Miller S., Quicke D., Segar S. T., Barrios H., Beaver R.A., et al. (2019) Insect assemblages attacking seeds and fruits in a rainforest in Thailand. Entomological Science 22 : 137-130.
DOI: 10.1111/ens.12346
Basset Y. F., Miller S., Gripenberg S., Čtvrtečka R., Dahl C. N., Leather S., Didham R. K. (2019) An entomocentric view of the Janzen – Connell hypothesis (editorial material). Insect Conservation and Diversity 12 : 1-8.
DOI: 10.1111/icad.12337
Dahl C. N., Čtvrtečka R., Gripenberg S., Lewis O., Segar S. T., Klimeš P., Sam K., Rinan D., et al., Novotný V., Basset Y. F. (2019) The insect-focused classification of fruit syndromes in tropical rain forests: An inter-continental comparison. Biotropica 51 : 39-49.
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12622
Solé R., Gripenberg S., Lewis O., Markesteijn L., Barrios H., Ratz T., Čtvrtečka R., Butterill P. T., Segar S. T., Metz M. A., Dahl C. N., Rivera M., Viquez K., Ferguson W., Guevara M., Basset Y. F. (2019) The role of herbivorous insects and pathogens in the regeneration dynamics of Guazuma ulmifolia in Panama. Nature Conservation 32 : 81-101.
DOI: 10.3897/natureconservation.32.30108
Basset Y. F., Dahl C. N., Čtvrtečka R., Gripenberg S., Lewis O., Segar S. T., Klimeš P., Barrios H., Brown J. W., Bunyavejchewin S., Butcher B., Cognato A., Davies S., Kaman O., Knížek M., Miller Scott E., Morse G. E., Novotný V., Pongpattananurak N., Pramual P., Quicke D., Robbins R. K., Sakchoowong W., Schutze M., Vesterinen E. J., Wang W., Wang Y., Weiblen G., Wright J. S. (2018) A cross-continental comparison of assemblages of seed- and fruit-feeding insects in tropical rain forests: Faunal composition and rates of attack. Journal of Biogeography 45 : 1395-1407.
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13211
Quicke D., Čtvrtečka R., Butcher B. (2018) A remarkable new genus of Braconini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae) from Papua New Guinea, reared fallen fuit. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 21 : 527-530.
DOI: 10.1016/j.aspen.2018.03.001
Sam K., Čtvrtečka R., Miller S. E., Rosati M., Molem K., Damas K., Gewa B., Novotný V. (2017) Low host specificity and abundance of frugivorous lepidoptera in the lowland rain forests of Papua New Guinea. PLoS ONE 12 : e0171843.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171843
Čtvrtečka R., Sam K., Miller S., Weiblen G. D., Novotný V. (2016) Fruit sizes and the structure of frugivorous communities in a New Guinea lowland rainforest. Austral Ecology 41 : 228-237.
DOI: 10.1111/aec.12326
Čtvrtečka R., Sam K., Brus E., Weiblen G., Novotný V. (2014) Frugivorous weevils are too rare cause Janzen-Connelll effects in New Guinea lowland rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 30 : 521-535.
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467414000406
Žďárek J., Čtvrtečka R., Hovorka O., Košťál V. (2000) Activation of gonads and disruption of imaginal diapause in the apple blossom weevil, Anthonomus pomorum (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with juvenoids in laboratory and field trials. Eur. J. Entomol. 97 : 25-31.

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Biology Centre CAS
Institute of Entomology
Branišovská 1160/31
370 05 České Budějovice

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