Unia Europejska

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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.