Contact information:
RNDr. Irena Schneiderová, Ph.D.
Phone: +420 723 772 304
E-mail: irena.schneiderova@natur.cuni.cz
Room: 223
Research interests:
Acoustic communication, mammals, evidence-based practice for zoo housed animals, zoo research.
Proposed Bachelor and Master student projects to be found here.
Current projects:
Structural variability in alarm calls of the European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus), acoustic communication and its application in management and husbandry practice of nocturnal primates.
Lectures:
- Collections and their secrets (MBCPLUS005)
- Field course in zoology (MB170T24)
- Methods of Quaternary paleontology (MB170P19)
- Practicals in animal morphology (MB170C46A)
- Special zoology of vertebrates (MB170P37)
- Vertebrate zoology - practical part (MB170P13A)
Recent publications:
NEKOLNÝ L. & SCHNEIDEROVÁ I. (2023) Taxa richness differences in European zoos between 1959 and 2016: Establishment period and the Iron curtain matter. Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens 4: 751-762.
SCHNEIDEROVÁ I., SINGH N. J., BAKLOVÁ A., SMETANOVÁ M., GOMIS N. B. & LHOTA S. (2020). Northern lesser galagos (Galago senegalensis) increase the production of loud calls before and at dawn. Primates 61: 331-338.
2019
SVENSSON M. S., BUTYNSKI T. M., de JONG Y. A., BEARDER S. K., SCHNEIDEROVÁ I. & NIJMAN V. (2019). Low geographic and subspecific variation in the loud call of the widespread and phenotypically cryptic Northern lesser galago (Galago senegalensis) suggests taxonomic uniformity. Folia Primatologica 90: 1 - 19.
