Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech republic (map).
Roman Fuchs
Personal data
Surname: Roman
Last name: Fuchs
Born: 1959, Prague, Czech
Republic
Nickname: Štetke
Contacts
E-mail: fuchs@prf.jcu.cz
Phone: +4200389022243
Occupation
University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Faculty of Science, assistant professor
Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Sciences, assistant professor
Special skills
Languages -
English
Hobbies – book collector and
beer and wine connoisseur possessing a rich vocabulary and sonorous voice
Lectures
Vertebrate biology, Zoogeography, Ornithology, Ecology of vertebrates
Selected publications
Tvardikova K, Fuchs R 2011
Do birds behave according to dynamic risk assessment theory? A feeder experiment
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 65(4): 727-733 (pdf 0,2MB)
Tvardikova K, Fuchs R 2010
Tits use amodal completion in predator recognition: a field experiment
ANIMAL COGNITION,
13(4): 609-615 (pdf 0,5 MB).
Prokopová M, Veselý P, Fuchs
R, Zrzavý J (2010)
The role of size and colour
pattern in protection of developmental stages of the red firebug (Pyrrhocoris
apterus) against avian predators
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2010,
100, 890–898 (pdf 0,5MB)
Dolenská M, Nedvěd O, Veselý P, Tesařová M, Fuchs R 2009
What constitutes the warning signals of aposematic
ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) to birds: colour, pattern or general
appearance?
Biological Journal of The Linnean Society,98 (1), 234-242.
(pdf 0,3MB)
Veselý P and Fuchs R 2009
Newly emerged Batesian mimicry protects only unfamiliar
prey.
Evolutionary Ecology, DOI 10.1007/s10682-008-9281-1
(pdf 0,3MB)
Veselý P, Veselá S, Fuchs R, Zrzavý J (2006)
Are gregarious red-black shieldbugs, Graphosoma
lineatum (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), really aposematic? An experimental approach
Evolutionary Ecology Research, 2006, 8: 881–890
(pdf 0,2MB)
Posters and abstracts
Syrová M, Bendová L, Poláková S, Němec M, Fuchs R
(2011)
Artificial dummies as stimuli in field mobbing experiments
The Association for the Study of Animal
Behaviour; Summer Conference 2011; St Andrews, Scotland. 18-19 August 2011;
Collection of abstracts, pp. 53 (pdf 1,5MB)
Němec M, Součková T, Poláková S, Fuchs R (2011)
Cognitive abilities of
red-backed Shrike
The Association for the Study of Animal
Behaviour; Summer Conference 2011; St Andrews, Scotland. 18-19 August 2011;
Collection of abstracts, pp. 53 (png 3,2MB)
Beránková J, Poláková S, Fuchs
R (2011)
How to recognize a
predator: to use key features or concept?
ASAB summer meeting, August 2011, St. Andrews, UK (png
3MB)
Veselý P, Fuchs R (2011)
Field
experiments: a potential in animal cognition research
ASAB summer meeting, August 2011, St. Andrews, UK (pdf
0,5MB).
Karlíková Z, Veselý P, Fuchs R (2011)
Recognition and discrimination of prey by great tits (Parus major)
ASAB summer meeting, August 2011, St. Andrews, UK.
Cibulková A, Veselý P, Fuchs R (2011)
Passerine birds' ability to
recognize warning signal and Batesian mimicry
The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour;
Summer Conference 2011; St Andrews, Scotland. 18-19 August 2011; Collection of
abstracts, pp. 27 (pdf, 1,5MB)
Průchová A, Luhanová D, Prášková M, Veselý P, Fuchs R (2011)
Pattern
as a key feature in recognition of warningly coloured prey
2nd ToK conference of CompCog meeting, July 2011, Prague, Czech
Republic
Veselý P, Cibulková A, Fuchs R (2009)
Importance of color in dangerous prey recognition in great tits
31st International Ethological Conference, August 2009, Rennes, France.
Tvardíková K, Fuchs R (2009)
Tits use amodal completion in predator recognition.
31st International Ethological Conference, August 2009, Rennes, France.
Němec M, Fuchs R (2009)
Shrikes vs. Corvids: Nest
defense of red backed strike (Lanius collurio)
31st International Ethological Conference, August 2009, Rennes, France. (png
2,5MB)
Poláková S, Rozsypal J, Fuchs R (2009)
2D presentation: Useful tool for testind cognitive abilities of birds?
31st International Ethological Conference, August 2009, Rennes, France. 371.
Bažant M, Fuchs R, Poláková S (2008)
Credibility of predators in
field antipredator experiments: Are birds more afraid of mobile models?
European Conference on Behavioural Biology (ECBB) 2008, Dijon, Francie,
18.-20.7.2008 (pdf 7,3MB)
Milan L, Poláková S, Fuchs R (2008)
Eurasian siskin and Greenfinch
as a model species in recognition and categorization of predators in cage
experiments
European Conference on Behavioural Biology (ECBB) 2008, Dijon, Francie,
18.-20.7.2008 (pdf 3,6MB)
Poláková S, Rozsypal J, Fuchs R (2008)
Cage experiments - a
potentiality to study predator recognition in birds
European Conference on Behavioural Biology (ECBB) 2008, Dijon, Francie,
18.-20.7.2008 (pdf 2,3MB)
Tumová P, Poláková S, Fuchs R (2008)
Does starvation support courage
by Great tits?
European Conference on Behavioural Biology (ECBB) 2008, Dijon, Francie,
18.-20.7.2008 (pdf 4,7MB)
Veselý P., Fuchs R. a S. Veselá (2006)
Visual antipredatory
signalization of red cotton bu – Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera,
Pyrrhocoridae)
VIIIth European Congress of Entomology, September 2006, Izmir, Turkey.
Tesařová M, Dolenská M, Nedvěd O, Fuchs R, Veselý R (2006)
Antipredatory signalization of
ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
VIIIth European Congress of Entomology, September 2006, Izmir, Turkey. (pdf
0,5MB)
Prokopová M, Fuchs R, Zrzavý J (2004)
The role of black pattern
elements in the anti-predator warning signal in pyrrhocoroid bugs
10th International Congress in Behavioural Ecology ISBE, July 2004, Jyväskylä,
Finland. (ppt, 1MB)
Veselý P., Barcalová S., Fuchs R. a J. Zrzavý (2004)
Reaction of blue tit (Parus
caeruleus) and Great tit (Parus major) to the shield bug (Graphosoma
lineatum)
10th International Congress in Behavioural Ecology ISBE, July 2004, Jyväskylä,
Finland. (pdf 0,5MB)
Barcalová S, Fučíková E, Veselý P, Landová E, Prokopová M, Exnerová A, Fuchs R,
Zrzavý J (2004)
Pattern of reaction to
aposematic and artificially non-aposematic Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera:
Pyrrhocoridae) within two genera of insectivorous birds (Parus, Sylvia)
10th International Congress in Behavioural Ecology ISBE, July 2004, Jyväskylä,
Finland. (pdf 0,5MB)