Doc. Mgr. Alice Exnerová, Ph.D.

Institution:

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Vinicna 7, CZ 128 44, Praha 2, Czech Republic

 

E-mail: alice.exnerova@natur.cuni.cz

 

Research interests:

Ornithology, Animal Behaviour, Animal Cognition, Antipredatory strategies, Aposematism and Mimicry

 

Current projects:

Behaviour of Avian Predators towards Aposematic Prey, Comparative Cognition in Tits and Chickadees, Evolution of Aposematism and Mimicry in True Bugs (Heteroptera)

 

Model taxa:

Passerine Birds, True Bugs

 

Lectures and courses:

General Ornithology; Systematic Ornithology, Cognitive Ethology, Ethology and Sociobiology, Practical Course in Ethological Methods, Practical Course in Vertebrate Morphology

 

Selected publications:

Zvereva E.L., Doktorovova L., Svadova K., Zverev V., Stys P., Adamova-Jezova D., Kozlov M. V., Exnerova A. 2018: Defence strategies of Chrysomela lapponica (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) larvae: relative efficacy of secreted and stored defences against insect and avian predators. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 124(3): 533-546.

Kraft F.L., Forstova T., Urhan A.U., Exnerova A., Brodin A. 2017: No evidence for self-recognition in a small passerine, the great tit (Parus major) judged from the mark-mirror test. Animal Cognition 20(6): 1049-1057.

Landova E., Svadova K., Fuchs R., Stys P., Exnerova A. 2017: The effect of social learning on avoidance of aposematic prey in juvenile great tits (Parus major). Animal Cognition 20(5): 855-866.

Raska J., Stys P., Exnerova A. 1017: How variation in prey aposematic signals affects avoidance learning, generalization and memory of a salticid spider. Animal Behaviour 130: 107-117.

Adamová-Ježová D., Hospodková E., Fuchsová L., Štys P., Exnerová A. 2016: Through experience to boldness? Deactivation of neophobia towardsnovel and aposematic prey in three European species of tits (Paridae). Behavioural Processes 131: 24-31.

Krajíček J., Havlíková M., Bursová M., Ston M., Čabala R., Exnerová A., Štys P., Bosáková Z. 2016: Comparative analysis of volatile defensive secretions of three species of Pyrrhocoridae (Insecta: Heteroptera) by gas chromatography-mass spectrometric method. PLoS ONE 11(12): e0168827. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0168827.

Exnerová A., Ježová D., Štys P., Doktorovová L., Rojas B., Mappes J. 2015: Different reactions to aposematic prey in 2 geographically distant populations of great tits. Behavioral Ecology 26(5): 1361-1370.

Fabricant S. A., Exnerová A., Ježová D., Štys P. 2014: Scared by shiny? The value of iridescence in aposematic signalling of the hibiscus harlequin bug. Animal Behaviour 90: 315-325.

Hotová Svádová K., Exnerová A., Štys P. 2014: Gregariousness as a defence strategy of moderately defended prey: experiments with Pyrrhocoris apterus and avian predators. Behaviour 151: 1617-1640.

Hotová Svádová K., Exnerová A., Kopečková M., Štys P. 2013: How do predators learn to recognize a mimetic complex: Experiments with naive Great tits and aposematic Heteroptera. Ethology 119: 814 – 830.

Bohlin T., Gamberale-Stille G., Merilaita S., Exnerová A., Štys P., Tullberg B. S. 2012: The detectability of the colour pattern in the aposematic firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus: an image-based experiment with human ‘predators’. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105: 806 – 816.

Kristenová M., Exnerová A., Štys P. 2011: Seed preferences of Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae): Are there specialized trophic populations? European Journal of Entomology 108: 581-586.

Kryštofková M., Fousová P., Exnerová A. 2011: Nestling diet of the Common Magpie (Pica pica) in urban and agricultural habitats. Ornis Fennica 88: 1 – 9.

Kryštofková M., Haas M., Exnerová A. 2011: Nest defense in Blackbirds Turdus merula: effect of predator distance and parental sex. Acta Ornithologica 46: 55-63.

Klvaňová A., Hořáková A., Exnerová A. 2011: Nest defence intensity in House Sparrows Passer domesticus in relation to parental quality and brood value. Acta Ornithologica 46: 47-54.

Exnerová A., Hotová Svádová K., Fučíková E., Drent P., Štys P. 2010: Personality matters: individual variation in reactions of naive bird predators to aposematic prey. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277: 723-728.

Johansen A. I., Exnerová A., Hotová Svádová K., Štys P., Gamberale-Stille G., Tullberg B. S. 2010: Adaptive change in protective coloration in adult striated shieldbugs Graphosoma lineatum (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae): test of detectability of two colour forms by avian predators. Ecological Entomology 35: 602–610.

Hotová Svádová K., Exnerová A., Kopečková M., Štys P. 2010: Predator dependent mimetic complexes: Do passerine birds avoid Central European red-and-black Heteroptera? European Journal of Entomology 107: 349-355.

Svádová K., Exnerová A., Štys P., Landová E., Fučíková A., Valenta J., Socha R. 2009: Role of different colours of aposematic insects in learning, memory and generalization of naïve bird predators. Animal Behaviour 77: 327-336.

Exnerová A., Štys P., Fučíková E., Veselá S., Svádová K., Prokopová M., Jarošík V., Fuchs R., Landová E. 2007: Avoidance of aposematic prey in European tits (Paridae): learned or innate? Behavioral Ecology 18: 148-156.

Albrecht T., Schnitzer J., Kreisinger J., Exnerová A., Munclinger P. 2007: Extrapair paternity and the opportunity for sexual selection in long-distant migratory passerines. Behavioral Ecology 18: 477-486.

Sedláček O., Fuchs R., Exnerová A. 2007: Differences in the nestling diets of sympatric Redstarts Phoenicurus phoenicurus and Black Redstarts P. ochruros: Species-specific preferences or responses to food supply? Acta Ornithologica 42: 99–106.

Exnerová A., Svádová K., Štys P., Barcalová S., Landová E., Prokopová M., Fuchs R., Socha R. 2006: Importance of colour in the reaction of passerine predators to aposematic prey: An experiment with mutants of Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 88: 143-153.

Exnerová A., Landová E., Štys P., Fuchs R., Prokopová  M.,  Cehláriková P. 2003: Reactions of passerine birds to aposematic and non-aposematic firebugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus; Heteroptera). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 78: 517-525.

 

 

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