BIENNIAL REPORT 2015-2016

A periodical continuation of the Institute's previous bulletins: Vertebratologicke Zpravy (1969-1987), Zpravy USEB (1988-1991) and the ILE Biennial Report (1993-1994).

Edited by Josef Bryja, Alena Fornuskova, Jan Zima, Hana Slabakova, and Marcel HonzaPublished by the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the CAS, v. v. i., BrnoEnglish correction by Kevin RocheLayout and pre-press by Jin KalacekPrinted by H.R.G. Litomysl© Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i.

Front cover: Smooth newt, Lissotriton vulgaris, as a model system for behavioural thermoregulationresearch in ectothermic vertebrates. (Photo by L. Gvozdik) Back cover:

a) Aerial respirometry system for measuring energy metabolism in small vertebrates. (Photo by L. Gvozdik)

b) Water temperature measurements over an aquatic thermal gradient, photographed using a thermal imaging camera. (Photo by L. Gvozdik)

ISBN 978-80-87189-22-1