Doc. Dipl. Biol. Jiří Schlaghamerský, Ph.D.

BIOSKETCH AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Jiří Schlaghamerský holds a Masters (Diplom-Biologe) in Biology from the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany (Thesis: Enchytraeidae of spruce and beech forests: The effect of soil factors and acid rain, 1992, supervised by Prof. Matthias Schaefer) and a Ph.D. from the Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Czechia (Thesis: The Saproxylic Beetles (Coleoptera) and Ants (Formicidae) of South Moravian Floodplain Forests, 2000, supervised by Prof. Jaromír Vaňhara). One year of his doctoral studies was supported by a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and from 2010 to 2011 he spent seven months as a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota, investigating the effect of exotic earthworm invasion on enchytraeids in forest soils, with Dr. Lee E. Frelich (Dept of Forest Resources, Centre for Forest Ecology). He was appointed associate professor at Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, on the basis of his habilitation thesis “Annelids in soils of Europe and North America: diversity of species and assemblages in dependence on ecological factors” (2014).

  • Ecology and taxonomy of enchytraeids and other primarily soil-dwelling annelids, in particular the effect of ecological factors on community structure
  • Ecology and conservation of saproxylic (dead-wood associated) beetles (effect of factors such as forest management, inundation in alluvial forests, microhabitat, forest stand stratification)
  • Ecology of ants, in particular the saproxylic/arboricolous European velvety tree ant (Liometopum microcephalum)