[Publications] [Research Interests]

Assoc.Prof. Zdeněk Adámek, Ph.D.

Tel: +420 543 422 523

Fax: +420 543 211 346

Email: Zdeněk Adámek

Address

Department of Fish Ecology

Institute of Vertebrate Biology

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Kvetna 8

Brno 

603 65

Czech Republic

Research interest

My research activities are conducted with particular effort on understanding the role of fish in the development of water environment attributes and vice versa - how the water quality influences fish and macroinvertebrate communities. Current research activities are focused on studies of the response of riverine benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages upon longitudinal progression of water quality attributes. The research in the Labe (Elbe) and Bílina rivers is concetrated to define water quality hot spots using benthic macroinvertebrates as indicators of contamination and accumulation of polluting agents. Research in fish food biology aims at studies of food habits both in native and non-indigenous fish species. Amongst last mentioned, priority interest is focused on the food habits and ecology of expanding gobiid species.

For more information see my research interest page with following content:

• Macrozoobenthos assemblages of the Labe (Elbe) and Bílina rivers with respect to pollution from the industrial enterprises
• Food habits of gobiids in the Danube River and its tributaries

Representative publications

Adámek Z., Sukop I., Moreno Rendón P., Kouřil J. (2003):

Food competition between 2+ tench (Tinca tinca L.), common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) and bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus Val.) in pond polyculture. J.Appl.Ichthyol., 19:165-169.

Šetlíková I., Adámek Z. (2005):

Feeding selectivity and growth of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus L.) fed on temperate-zone aquatic macrophytes. Czech J.Anim.Sci., 49(6): 271-278.

Gavel A., Maršálek B., Adámek Z. (2005):

Viability of Microcystis colonies is not damaged by silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) digestion. Algological Studies 113, Arch. Hydrobiol. Suppl. 153: 189-194.

Adámek Z., Opačak A. (2005):

Prey selecitivity in pike (Esox lucius), zander (Sander lucioperca) and perch (Perca fluviatilis) under experimental conditions. Biologia, Bratislava, 60(5): 567-570.

Collaborators

Georg Wolfram, Wien, Austria

Claus Orendt, Leipzig, Germany

José Martín Gallardo, Badajoz, Spain

Paloma Moreno Rendón, Badajoz, Spain

Ivan Bogut, Osijek, Croatia