Unia Europejska

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Magdalena, Witek (dr)

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 Main Research Interest

  •  social parasitism in ants
  •  myrmecophily
  •  interactions between ants and fungi
  •  ant biodiversity
  •  division of labour in social insects
  •  development of personality in ants

 

 

Current projects

  • Susceptibility of ant colonies for social parasitism and the impact of social parasites on host colony fitness (NCN: UMO-2012/04/S/NZ8/00218). In this project I study the effect of social parasites on ant colony fitness and arm race between Myrmica host ants and their social parasites Maculinea butterflies. I also try to look which ant colony traits can make them more prone for social parasitism.
  • Influence of goldenrod invasion on Myrmica ant colony life history traits.
  • Relationship between Myrmica ants and their parasitic fungus Rickia wasmannii.
  • Studies on inquiline social parasite- Myrmica karavajevi.

 

Publications

Sielezniew M., Patricelli D., Rutkowski R., Witek M., Bonelli S., Buś M.M. 2015. Population genetics of the endangered obligatorily myrmecophilous butterfly Phengaris (= Maculinea) arion in two areas of its European range. Insect Conservation and Diversity doi: 10.1111/icad.12129.

 

Witek M,Barbero F., Marko B.(2014) Myrmica ants host highly diverse parasitic communities: from social parasites to microbes. Insectes Sociaux, 61: 307-323.

 

Kajzer-Bonk J., Nowicki P., Bonk M., Skórka P., Witek M., Woyciechowski M. (2013). Local populations of endangered Maculinea (Phengaris) butterflies are flood resistant. Journal of Insect Conservation 17: 1105-1112.

 

Bonelli S., Vrabec V., Witek M., Barbero F., Patricelli D., Nowicki P. (2013) Selection on dispersal in isolated butterfly metapopulations. Population Ecology 55: 469-478.

 

Lenda M., Witek M., Skórka P, Moroń D, Woyciechowski M. (2013) Invasive alien plants affect grassland ant communities, colony size and foraging behavior. Biological Invasions, 15: 2403-2414.

 

Skórka P., Nowicki P., Kudłek J., Pępkowska A., Śliwińska E.B., Witek M., Settele J., Woyciechowski M. (2013) Movements and flight morphology in the endangered Large Blue butterflies. Central European Journal of Biology, 8: 662-669.

 

Skórka P., Nowicki P., Lenda M., Witek M., Śliwińska E.B., Settele J., Woyciechowski M. (2013) Different flight behaviour of the endangered scarce large blue butterfly Phengaris teleius (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) within and outside its habitat patches. Landscape Ecology, 28: 533-546.

 

Witek M., Casacci L.P., Barbero F., Patricelli D., Sala M., Bossi S., Maffei M., Woyciechowski M., Baletto E., Bonelli S. (2013) Interspecific relationships in co-occurring populations of social parasites and their host ants. Biological Journal of Linnean Society 109: 699-709.

 

Patricelli D., Sielezniew M., Ponikwicka-Tyszko D., Ratkiewicz M., Bonelli S., Barbero F., Witek M., Bus M., Rutkowski R., Balletto E. (2013) Contrasting genetic structure of rear edge and continuous range populations of a parasitic butterfly infected by Wolbachia. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13, article number 14. 

 

Witek M., Babik H., Czechowski W., Czechowska W. 2013. Myrmica karavajevi (Arn.) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Poland: a species not as rare as it is thought to be? Fragmenta Faunistica, 56: 17–24.

 

Barbero F., Patricelli D., Witek M., Balletto E., Casacci P.L., Sala M., Bonelli S. (2012) Myrmica ants and their butterfly parasites with special focus on the acoustic communication Psyche special issue -Ants and their parasites, 2012: 11pp.

 

de Assis R.A., Bonelli S., Witek M.,  Barbero F., Casacci L.P., Balletto E., Venturino E., Ferreira W.C. (2012) A model for the evolution of parasite-host interactions based on the Maculinea-Myrmica system: Numerical simulations and multiple host behavior. Nonlinear Analysis-Real World Applications, 13: 1507-1524.

 

Witek M., Canterino S., Balletto E., Bonelli S. (2012) Life cycle and growth pattern of the endangered myrmecophilous Microdon myrmicae (Diptera: Syrphidae). European Journal of Entomology, 109 (3): 457-461.

 

Bonelli S., Barbero F., Casacci L.P., Cerrato C., Patricelli D., Vovlas A., Witek M., Balletto E. (2011) Butterfly diversity in a changing scenario. In: Changing diversity in changing environment, Eds. By Grill O, (Belgdar, INTECH Open Access Publisher), 99-132.

 

Particelli D., Barbero F., La Morgia V., Casacci L.P., Witek M., Balletto E., Bonelli S. (2011) To lay or not to lay: oviposition of Maculinea arion in relation to Myrmica ant presence and host plant phenology. Animal Behaviour, 82: 791-799.

 

Witek M., Skórka P., Śliwinska B.E., Nowicki P., Moroń D., Settele J., Woyciechowski M. (2011) Development of parasitc Maculinea teleius (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) in laboratory nests of four Myrmica ant host species. Insectes Sociaux, 58: 403-411.

 

Bonelli S., Witek M., Canterino S., Sielezniew M., Stankiewicz-Fiedurek A., Tartally A., Balletto E., Schӧnrogge K. (2011) Distribution, host specificity and the potential for cryptic speciation in hoverfly Microdon myrmicae (Diptera: Syrphidae), a social parasite of Myrmica ants. Ecological Entomology, 36: 135-143.

 

Witek M., Particelli D., Casacci L.P., Barbero F., Balletto E., Bonelli S. (2011) Notes on the biology and host ant specificity of the myrmecohhilous syrphis fly Microdon major (Diptera: Syrphidae), a social parasite of Formica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology, 57: 261-269.

 

Casacci L.P., Witek M., Barbero F, Patricelli D., Solazzo, G., Balletto E., Bonelli S. (2011) Habitat preferences of Maculinea arion and its Myrmica host ants: implications for habitat management in Italian Alps. Journal of Insect Conservation, 15 (1-2): 103-110.

 

Witek M., Nowicki P., Śliwinska B.E., Skórka P, Settele J, Schӧnrogge K, Woyciechowski M. (2010) Local host ant specificity of Phengaris (Maculinea) teleius butterfly, an obligatory social parasite of Myrmica ants. Ecological Entomology, 35: 557-564.

 

 

Patricelli D., Witek M., Barbero F., Casacci L.P., Bonelli S., Balletto E. (2010) Evidence

of high larval host ant specificity in the first post adoption phase for the myrmecophilous

butterfly Phengaris (Maculinea) nausithous (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Sociobiology, 55

(3): 861-870.

 

Sielezniew, M., Patricelli D., Dziekańska I., Barbero F., Casacci L.P., Witek M.,

Balletto E., Bonelli S. (2010) The first record of M. lonae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as a host of socially parasitic Blue butterfly Phengaris (Maculinea) arion. Sociobiology, 56(2): 465-475.

 

Witek M., Śliwińska E. B., Skórka P., Nowicki P., Wantuch M., Vrabec V., Settele J.,

Woyciechowski M. (2008). Host ant specificity of Large Blue butterflies Phengaris

(Maculinea) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) inhabiting humid grasslands of East-central

Europe. European Journal of Entomology, 105: 871 – 877.

 

Śliwińska E. B., Witek M., Skórka P., Osikowski A., Woyciechowski M. (2008). The

frequency of multiple paternity in Myrmica scabrinodis from southern Poland.

Entomological Science, 11, 127-129.

 

Moron D., Witek M., Woyciechowski M. (2008). Division of labour among workers

with different life expectancy in ant Myrmica scabrinodis. Animal Behaviour, 75, 345-

350.

 

Nowicki P, Pępkowska A, Kudłek J, Skórka P, Witek M, Settele J, Woyciechowski, M.

(2007). From metapopulation theory to conservation recommendations: lessons from spatial occurrence and abundance patterns of Maculinea butterflies. Biological Conservation, 140 (2), 119-129.

 

Witek M., Śliwinska E., Skórka P., Nowicki P., Settele J., Woyciechowski M (2006)

Polymorphic growth in larvae of Maculinea butterflies, as an example of biennialism in

myrmecophilous insects. Oecologia, 148, 729-733

 

Skórka P., Witek M., Woyciechowski M (2006) A simple and nondestructive method

for estimation of worker population size in Myrmica ant nests. Insectes Sociaux, 53: 97-

100.

 

Śliwinska, E.B., Nowicki, P., Nash, D.R., Witek, M., Settele, J &Woyciechowski, M (2006) Morphology of caterpillars and pupae of European Maculinea species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) with an identification table. Entomologica Fennica, 17: 351-358.

 

Nowicki P., Witek M., Skórka P., Woyciechowski M (2005) Oviposition patterns in

the myrmecophilous butterfly Maculinea alcon in relation to characteristic of foodplants

and presence of ant hosts. Polish Journal of Ecology, 53 (3): 409-417.

 

Nowicki P., Witek M., Skórka P., Woyciechowski M., Settele J (2005) Population

ecology of endangered butterflies Maculinea teleius and M. nausithous, and its

conservation implications. Population Ecology, 47 (3): 193-202. 

 

Dubiec A., Witek M., Cichoń M. (2005) Seasonal decline in leukocyte concentration

and reproductive output in female Great Tits. The Auk, 122 (3): 829-834.

Trigos Peral, Gema (Dr. Biology – Speciality: Ecology)

Gema Trigos Peral (dr.)

 

 

 

Gema Trigos Peral (dr.)

 

 

 

 

 

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Main research interest

  • Urbanization
  • Forest ecology
  • Community ecology
  • Invasive species
  • Ant behaviour
  • Evolutionary traits in ants

Projects

2020 – Wymiana bilateralna pomiędzy Polską a Niemcami 2020: “Wpływ urbanizacji na fenologię mrówek” [The effect of urbanization on ant phenology]. Project nr - PPN/BDE/2020/1/00016, Research Grant for bilateral collaboration Poland-Germany funded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). Principal Investigator

2019 – MINIATURA 3: “Wpływ "miejskich wysp ciepła" na aktywność sezonową i dobową pospolitych gatunki mrowek” [Influence of "urban heat islands" on the seasonal and daily activity of common ant species]. Project nr - NCN 2019/03/X/NZ8/0177, Research Grant funded by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN). Principal Investigator

2015 – GWIAZDA 2015: “Personality in ants’ risk behaviour”. Internal research grant at the Museum and Institute of Zoology (PAS) for financing individual projects. Principal Investigator

Mobility

  • Spain, University of Córdoba, Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, PhD studies, 11.2009-10.2015
  • Bulgaria, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria (1 week in 2014)
  • Romania, Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Cluj-Napoca; Babeq-Bolyai University, International project in the framework of cooperation between Polish and Romanian Academies of Sciences, (1 week in 2014, 2 weeks in 2015, one week in 2019, 1 week 2023 and 1 week 2024)
  • Seville, Estación Biológica de Doñana – CSIC, Department of Conservation Biology and GC (7 months from October 2020 till May 2021)
  • Germany, Department of Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Regensburg University (1 week in 2021) 

Publications 

  1. Trigos-Peral G., Witek M., Csata E., Chudzik P., Heinze J. 2024. Urban diet as potential cause of low body fat content in female ant sexuals. Myrmecological News 34: 181-190.
  1. Maák I., Trigos-Peral G., Rutkowski T., Czechowski W. 2024. Peculiar Polydomy in Wood Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): An Auxiliary Nest Seven Metres Underground. Annales Zoologici 74 (3): 511-524.
  1. Vidal-Cordero J.M., Trigos-Peral G. 2024. Primera cita de Nylanderia jaegerskioeldi (Mayr, 1904) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) para Sevilla (Andalucía, España) y actualización de su distribución en la península ibérica. Boletín de la Sociedad Andaluza de Entomología 34
  1. Castro-Cardoso M., Trigos-Peral G., Chiara V., Cordero-Rivera A., Sanmartín-Villar I. Adaptation to new resources: interaction between introduced psyllids and native and exotic ants in Eucalyptus plantations in NW Spain. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 18 (2): 287-297.
  1. Trigos-Peral G., Maák I., Schmid S., Chodzik P., Czaczkes TJ., Witek M., Casacci LP., Sánchez-Garcia D., Lörincz A., Kochanowski M., Heinze J. 2024. Urban abiotic stressors drive changes in the foraging activity and colony growth of the black garden ant Lasius niger. 2024. Science of The Total Environment, 915: 170157.
  1. Trigos-Peral G., Maák I., Ślipiński P., Witek M. 2023. Behavioral and morphological traits influencing variation in task performance of Camponotus vagus ants. Insectes Sociaux 70 (4): 451-461.
  1. Czechowski W., Trigos-Peral G., Savolainen R., Vepsäläinen K. 2023. Intricacies of the biology of Dolichoderus quadripunctatus (L.)(Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annales Zoologici 73 (2), 235-244.
  1. Czechowski W., Trigos-Peral G., Savolainen R., Vepsäläinen K. 2022. Alate gynes of Dolichoderus quadripunctatus (L.) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on foraging frails – A peculiar way of dispersal Annales Zoologici 72(2): 235-245.
  1. Maák I., Trigos-Peral G., Ślipiński P., Grześ I.M., Horváth G., Witek M. 2021. Habitat features and colony characteristics influencing ant personality and its fitness consequences. Behavioral Ecology 32 (1): 124–137.
  1. Maák I., Sondej I., Juhász O., Trigos-Peral G., Tenyér A., Camera J., Czechowski W. 2021. Unexpected distribution of subordinates around nests of the wood ants. Acta Oecologica 110: 103709.
  1. Trigos-Peral G., Abril S., Angulo E. 2021. Behavioral responses to numerical differences when two invasive ants meet: the case of Lasius  neglectus and Linepithema humile. Biological Invasions 23: 935–953.
  1. Gorczak M., Trigos-Peral G. 2021. Solving a long-standing enigma: Myrmicinosporidium durum belongs to Blastocladiomycota, a phylum of primarily aquatic fungi. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 184: 107640.
  1. Ślipiński P., Trigos-Peral G., Maák I., Wojciechowska I., Witek M. 2021. The influence of age and development temperature on the temperature-related foraging risk of Formica cinerea ants. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75: 107.
  1. Maziarz M., Broughton R.K., Casacci L.P., Hebda G., Maák I., Trigos-Peral G., Witek M. 2021. Interspecific attraction between ground-nesting songbirds and ants: the role of nest-site selection. Frontiers in Zoology 18: 43. 
  1. Trigos-Peral G., Juhász O., Kiss P.J., Módra G., Tenyér A., Maák I. 2021. Wood ants as biological control of the forest pest beetles Ips spp. Scientific Reports 11: 17931. 
  1. Juhász O., Bátori Z., Trigos-Peral G., Lőrinczi G., Módra G., Bóni I., Kiss P.J., Aguilon D.J., Tenyér A., Maák I. 2020. Large- and small-scale environmental factors drive distributions of ant mound size across a latitudinal gradient. Insects 11: 350.
  1. Trigos-Peral G., Rutkowski T., Witek M., Ślipiński P., Babik H., Czechowski W. 2020. Three categories of urban green areas and the effect of their different management on the communities of ants, spiders and harvestmen. Urban ecosystems 23: 803 – 818.
  1. Trigos-Peral G., Gómez K., Reyes-López J. L. 2020. Contribution to the knowledge of the invasive species in Andalusia: First records of exotic ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Axarquía (Torre del Mar, Málaga, Spain). Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología 44 (1-2): 239–244.
  1. Trigos-Peral G. 2020. Estrategias reproductivas en hormigas: adaptarse o morir. Iberae 4: 40–43.
  1. Trigos-Peral G., Witek M., Czechowski W. 2020. Mrówki w Warszawie. Prace i Studia Geograficzne 65.1: 73–82.
  1. Rutkowski T., Trigos-Peral G. 2020. Pająki i kosarze Pola Mokotowskiego w Warszawie – dane wstępne. Prace i Studia Geograficzne 65.1: 61–65.
  1. Maák I., Camera J., Casacci L. P., Barbero F., Trigos‐Peral G., Ślipiński P., Bonelli S., Zaccagno M., Witek M. 2019. The influence of colony traits on the collective behaviour of Myrmica scabrinodis ants. Insect Conservation and Diversity 12: 481–491.
  1. Czechowski W., Trigos-Peral G., Maák I., Vepsäläinen K. 2019. Alate gyne of the ant Dolichoderus quadripunctatus (L.)(Hymenoptera, Formicidae) follows foraging trail to aphids. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 71: 241–248.
  1. Rutkowski T., Maák I., Vepsäläinen K., Trigos-Peral G., Stephan W., Wojtaszyn G., Czechowski W. 2019. Ants trapped for years in an old bunker; survival by cannibalism and eventual escape. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 72: 177–184.
  1. Trigos-Peral G., Casacci L. P., Ślipiński P., Grześ I. M., Moroń D., Babik H., Witek M. 2018. Ant communities and Solidago plant invasion: Environmental properties and food sources. Entomological Science 21 (3): 270-278.
  1. Grześ I. M., Ślipiński P., Babik H., Moroń D.,  Walter B., Trigos-Peral G., Witek M. 2018. Colony size and brood investment of Myrmica rubra ant colonies in habitats invaded by goldenrods. Insectes Sociaux 65, 275–280.
  1. Trigos-Peral G. 2018. Conociendo a una de las joyas de la mirmecología: Las hormigas tejedoras del género Oecophylla Smith 1860. La marabunta digital 1: 11–13.
  1. Trigos Peral G., Rutkowski T., Wojtaszyn G.., Espadaler S. 2017. Myrmicinosporidium durum in Poland: a new location for this fungal ant endoparasite and updated world distribution. Acta Parasitologica 62: 875–879.
  1. Sánchez-García D., Cuesta-Segura A. D., Aleix Herraiz J., Trigos Peral G., García García F., Catarineu C., Arcos González J., Fernández Martínez J. A. 2017. Listado actualizado de las hormigas de la península ibérica e islas baleares (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Iberomyrmex 9: 74.
  1. Trigos-Peral, G., Marko, B., Babik, H., TǍuşan, I., Maák, I., Pálfi, Z., Ślipiński, P., Czekes, Z., & Czechowski, W. (2016). Differential impact of two dominant Formica ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) on subordinates in temperate Europe. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 50: 97-116.
  1. Trigos-Peral G., Reyes-López J.L. 2013. Primera relación de los formícidos (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) de la Reserva natural Lagunas de Campillos (Málaga). Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología 37 (3-4): 217-224.

Molak-Tomsia, Martyna (Dr)

Pracownia Technik Molekularnych i Biometrycznych

Pokój 314

Tel. 22 629 32 21, wewn. 156

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Zainteresowania:

Kopalny DNA, genetyka populacyjna człowieka, archeogenetyka, antropologia

 

Wykształcenie:

2011-2014 studia doktoranckie i stopień naukowy doktora – School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney

2007-2009 studia magisterskie i dyplom magistra – Instytut Genetyki i Biotechnologii, Wydział Biologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski

2004-2007 studia licencjackie i dyplom licencjata – Instytut Genetyki i Biotechnologii, Wydział Biologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski

 

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Patrzyk, Monika (mgr inż.)

Monika Patrzyk

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Phone: +48(22) 629 32 21, wew. 156

Research interests:

population genetics

 

Research projects:

  • 2016 – prezent

Conducting genetic research within the framework of  “Stabilization of the deer population in Bory Stobrawskie based on transplantation from the Kluczbork forest district `s  breeding “

  • 2013-2015

Study of morphological and metabolic changes accompanying the cell death induced by kinetin within the framework of “Characterisation of some metabolism components accompanying cell death induced by kinetin in 2-cm root apical fragments of Vicia faba ssp. minor seedlings”