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Marcel Honza is a researcher affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular emphasis on ecology and related subfields.

The main fields of study in Honza's research include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The subfields of study they contribute to are:

  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Parasitology
  • Plant Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Honza's research covers a range of topics centered on avian ecology and behavior, as well as plant and animal interaction studies. Key thematic areas include:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Bird parasitology and diseases
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

The scientist has contributed to several journal publications, notably in venues such as:

  • Journal of Vertebrate Biology
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Journal für Ornithologie
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Vision Research

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Michal Šulc
  • Gabriela Štětková
  • Petr Procházka
  • Milica Požgayová
  • Peter Samaš

Selected recent publications by Marcel Honza include:

  • A Meta-Analysis of Avian Egg Traits Cueing Egg-Rejection Defenses Against Brood Parasitism, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Fitting different visual models to behavioral patterns of parasitic egg rejection along a natural egg color gradient in a cavity-nesting host species, 2020, Vision Research
  • Caught on camera: circumstantial evidence for fatal mobbing of an avian brood parasite by a host, 2020, Journal of Vertebrate Biology
  • Fast and furious: host aggression modulates behaviour of brood parasites, 2021, Ibis
  • Spatiotemporal patterns of egg laying in the common cuckoo, 2021, Animal Behaviour

Best Publications

  • Salmonellae in gulls and other free-living birds in the Czech Republic.

    Z Hubálek;W Sixl;M Mikuláskova;B Sixl-Voigt

  • European Cuckoo Cuculus canorus parasitism and host's rejection behaviour in a heavily parasitized Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus population

    Csaba Moskát;Marcel Honza

  • Effect of nest and nest site characteristics on the risk of cuckoo Cuculus canorus parasitism in the great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus

    Csaba Moskát;Marcel Honza

  • Constraints on host choice: Why do parasitic birds rarely exploit some common potential hosts?

    Tomáš Grim;Peter Samaš;Csaba Moskát;Oddmund Kleven

  • Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus and host behaviour at Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus nests

    Arne Moksnes;Eivin Røskaft;Lise Greger Hagen;Marcel Honza

  • Rejection of artificial cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) eggs in relation to variation in egg appearance among reed warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)

    Bård G. Stokke;Arne Moksnes;Eivin Røskaft;Geir Rudolfsen

  • The modelling of avian visual perception predicts behavioural rejection responses to foreign egg colours

    Phillip Cassey;Marcel Honza;Tomas Grim;Mark Erno Hauber

  • Behaviour of female common cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, in the vicinity of host nests before and during egg laying: a radiotelemetry study

    Marcel Honza;Barbara Taborsky;Michael Taborsky;Yvonne Teuschl

  • The risk of parasitism in relation to the distance from reed warbler nests to cuckoo perches

    I. J. Øien;M. Honza;A. Moksnes;E. Røskaft

  • Are blackcaps current winners in the evolutionary struggle against the common cuckoo

    Marcel Honza;Petr Procházka;Petr Procházka;Bård G. Stokke;Arne Moksnes

  • The spatial habitat structure of host populations explains the pattern of rejection behavior in hosts and parasitic adaptations in cuckoos

    Eivin Røskaft;Arne Moksnes;Bård G. Stokke;Csaba Moskát

  • Costs of cuckoo Cuculus canorus parasitism to reed warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus

    Ingar Jostein Oien;Arne Moksnes;Eivin Roskaft;Marcel Honza

  • Ultraviolet and green parts of the colour spectrum affect egg rejection in the song thrush (Turdus philomelos)

    Marcel Honza;Lenka Polačiková;Lenka Polačiková;Petr Procházka

  • Host species affects the growth rate of cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) chicks

    Oddmund Kleven;Arne Moksnes;Eivin Røskaft;Marcel Honza

  • Survival of Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus clutches in relation to nest position

    M. Honza;I.J. Øien;A. Moksnes;E. Røskaft

  • Serologic survey of birds for West Nile flavivirus in southern Moravia (Czech Republic).

    Zdeněk Hubálek;Jiří Halouzka;Zina Juřicová;Silvie Šikutová

  • Host density predicts presence of cuckoo parasitism in reed warblers

    Bård G. Stokke;Inge Hafstad;Geir Rudolfsen;Bruno Bargain

  • Eviction behaviour of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus chicks

    Marcel Honza;Katerina Vošlajerová;Csaba Moskát

  • Brood parasites lay eggs matching the appearance of host clutches

    Marcel Honza;Michal Šulc;Michal Šulc;Václav Jelínek;Milica Požgayová

  • Colour characteristics of the blunt egg pole: cues for recognition of parasitic eggs as revealed by reflectance spectrophotometry

    Lenka Polačiková;Lenka Polačiková;Marcel Honza;Petr Procházka;Ján Topercer

  • Do Common Whitethroats (Sylvia communis) discriminate against alien eggs

    Petr Procházka;Petr Procházka;Marcel Honza

Frequent Co-Authors

Petr Procházka
Petr Procházka Czech Academy of Sciences
Arne Moksnes
Arne Moksnes Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Eivin Røskaft
Eivin Røskaft Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Miroslav Capek
Miroslav Capek Institute of Vertebrate Biology
Tomáš Grim
Tomáš Grim Palacký University, Olomouc
Bård G. Stokke
Bård G. Stokke Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Csaba Moskát
Csaba Moskát Hungarian Natural History Museum
Mark E. Hauber
Mark E. Hauber Queens College, CUNY
Oddmund Kleven
Oddmund Kleven Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Barbara Taborsky
Barbara Taborsky University of Bern

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