Specialization

I am interested in soil food webs, functional traits, polar ecology, forest ecology, ecology and physiology of microscopic metazoans - especially tardigrades and effect of microplastic particles on soil animals.

Topic of my disertation: Relation of tardigrade diet, functional traits on their feeding apparatus and environmental conditions. Supervisor is RNDr. Miloslav Devetter, PhD.

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Publications:

Majekova M., Paal T., Plowman N.S., Bryndová M., Kasari L., Norberg A., Weiss M.K., Bishop T.R., Luke S.H., Sam K., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Lepš J., Götzenberger L., de Bello F. 2016. Evaluating functional diversity: Missing Trait Data and the Importance of Species Abundance Structure and Data Transformation. PLoS ONE 11(2):e0149270

Bryndová M., Stec D., Ralph O. Schill, Devetter M. & Michalczyk Ł., 2020. Dietary preferences and diet effects on life history traits in tardigrades. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188(3): 865-877.