Hydrobiologist
Josef Matěna
- matena@hbu.cas.cz
- +420 387 775 840, +420 737 134 469
Soil & Water Research Infrastructure
- Biology Centre CAS
- Na Sádkách 7, 370 05 České Budějovice
- Czech Republic
Specialisation – Hydrobiology, fish diet under natural conditions, macrozoobenthos, Chironomids
Education and Academic Positions
- 1998-2012 Director of the Hydrobiological Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- 2001 Doc. (associated profesor), University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- 1984 CSc. (Ph.D.) in Hydrobiology, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
- 1976 RNDr. (M.Sc.), Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
- 1975 Diploma in Biology, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Research Interests
- rearing of fish fry in ponds
- intensification of fisheries in inland waters
- feeding biology of fish
- freshwater food web structure, RP5
Teaching Interests
- External supervisor and external examiner of M.Sc. theses Charles University, Prague
- Regular participation in teaching of the Field Workshop on Fish Pond Limnology, the UNESCO Post-Graduate Course on Limnology Třeboň
- Supervisor of the working group "Benthos and Fish
- External lecturer at the Pedagogical faculty, University of South Bohemia (biology of fish, aquarium-keeping of fish)
- Supervisor of Ph.D. students
- Lectures "Special zoology of anamniote vertebrates", "Ichthyology", "Fisheries and fishing techniques" Biological faculty University of South Bohemia
Outputs
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08/06/2016
Who Is Who: An Anomalous Predator-Prey Role Exchange between Cyprinids and Perch
Piscivory in cyprinids (Cyprinidae) is extremely rare. Specifically, common bream (Abramis brama) and common carp (Cyprinus carpio) are...
12/02/2014
Towards a better understanding of small scale distribution of littoral age-0 fish in a deep-valley reservoir: day or night surveys?
The effect of diel period and littoral habitats on the distribution of age-0 fish was tested in a deep-valley reservoir using boat-modified point...
10/06/2012
Littoral age 0+ fish distribution in relation to multi-scale spatial heterogeneity of a deep-valley reservoir
Littoral age 0+ fish were studied with respect to spatio-temporal heterogeneity in the deep-valley Římov Reservoir (Czech Republic) from June to...
06/12/2011
The influence of the trawl mouth opening size and net colour on catch efficiency during sampling of early stages of perch (Perca fluviatilis) and pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) in the bathypelagic layer of a canyon-shaped reservoir
The efficiency of different sized (0.5 m × 2 m, 1 m × 2 m, 2 m × 2 m, 4 m × 2 m) and coloured (black, white) ichthyoplankton trawl nets was...