Jan Klečka - aquatic food webs

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Employment
• since 2010	Laboratory of Theoretical Ecology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Entomology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Study
• since 2010	PhD studies of Ecosystem Biology at Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic PhD Thesis: The structure and dynamics of food webs of small stagnant waters. (supervisor David S. Boukal)
• 2008 - 2010	MSc studies of Ecology at Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic MSc Thesis: Predation in aquatic insects: species traits and habitat structure mediate predator-prey interactions. (supervisor David S. Boukal) (pdf)
• 2005 - 2008	BSc studies of Biology at Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic BSc Thesis: The structure and dynamics of water beetle community in a semipermanent wetland (Vrbenské rybníky NR). (supervisor David S. Boukal) (pdf)
• 1997 - 2005	Grammar school in the Česká street, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
• 1986	Born in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Society memberships
• since 2009	Czech Society for Ecology
• since 2007	British Ecological Society
• 2004 - 2007	Czech Entomological Society
Conferences
• September 2010	Annual Meeting of the British Ecological Society, Leeds, UK Poster presentation: Interacting predator and prey traits mediate predation by aquatic insects.
• August 2010	9th European Congress of Entomology, Budapest, Hungary Oral presentation: Dispersal in aquatic beetles – effects of environmental variability and species and individual traits.
• June 2010	4th Conference of the European Pond Conservation Network, Berlin, Germany Oral presentation: Lazy ecologist's guide to water beetle diversity: comparison of four major sampling methods in an alder carr.
• Februry 2010	Zoological days, Prague, Czech Republic Oral presentation: Prey selectivity of predatory aquatic insects in relation to predator and prey traits.
• September 2009	British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Hatfield, UK Poster: The effects of habitat structure and permanence on insect community assembly in newly created sandpit pools.
• April 2009	2nd National Meeting of the Czech Society for Ecology, Ostrava (Czech Republic) Oral presentation: Gargantua and Pantagruel or prey selectivity of predatory aquatic insects. Poster: Diversity and habitat selectivity of aquatic insects in a lowland rainforest (Papua New Guinea).
• Februry 2009	Zoological days, Brno, Czech Republic Oral presentation: The role of environment in dispersal of aquatic beetles. Poster: Diversity and habitat selectivity of aquatic insects in a lowland rainforest (Papua New Guinea).
• May 2008	3rd Conference of the European Pond Conservation Network, Valencia, Spain Poster: Flight activity of water beetles in a semi-permanent wetland - seasonal dynamics and effects of environmental variables.
• April 2008	Founding Meeting of the Czech Society for Ecology, Třeboň, Czech Republic Poster: Flight activity of water beetles in a semi-permanent wetland - seasonal dynamics and effects of environmental variables.
Foreign courses
• April 2011	SIZEMIC Summer School: A Practical Course in Size Structured Modeling of Population and Community Dynamics in a Changing Climate; Hamburg
• July - August 2008	Field Course of Tropical Ecology; Papua New Guinea (organized by Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia jointly with New Guinea Binatang Research Centre, Madang and PNG Institute of Biological Research, Goroka)
Grants and awards
• 2010 - 2013	Grant Agency of the Czech Republic Project: How plastic are freshwater insects? Measuring growth, phenotypic plasticity and evolution in selected taxa. (pricipal investigator: David Boukal)
• 2010	Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia Project: Habitat preferences and diurnal behaviour of mountain Erebia (Lepidoptera) along the altitudinal gradient. (principal investigator: Irena Slámová)
• 2009	Student Grant Agency of the Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia Project: The effect of habitat structural complexity on the assembly of model food web.
• 2008	Student Grant Agency of the Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia Project: The role of body size in predator-prey interactions: comparative experiments in aquatic insects (together with Luboš Havlan).
• 2007 - 2008	Mattoni Awards for Studies of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology Project: What biotic and abiotic factors influence the composition and dynamics of water insect communities?