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| 2020-03-05 | Wojciech Magowski | A1 | The Study of Species in the Era of Biodiversity: A Tale of Stupidity. Research policies ensuing from the Convention on Biological Diversity made huge funds available to study biodiversity. These were mostly dedicated to projects aimed at providing services to taxonomy via information and technology, or to develop "modern", i.e., molecular, approaches to taxonomy. | Trzópek Magdalena Maria, Łaniecki Ronald | Fenrych Marianna Jadwiga- Radwańska Anna Klara- |
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| 2020-03-05 | Wojciech Magowski | A1 | New Species in the Old World: Europe as a Frontier in Biodiversity Exploration, a Test Bed for 21st Century Taxonomy The number of described species on the planet is about 1.9 million, with ca. 17,000 new species described annually, mostly from the tropics. However, taxonomy is usually described as a science in crisis, lacking manpower and funding, a politically acknowledged problem known as the Taxonomic Impediment. | Szewczyk Magdalena Wiesława, Gostyńska Julia | Sęk Oliwia Wiktoria- Stawrakakis Krzysztof- |
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| 2020-03-31 | Wojciech Magowski | VH | Travelling through time and space on wings of beetles: A tripartite insect-fungi-nematode association
Here we report a previously undescribed symbiotic association involving spruce beetles, Dendroctonus rufipennis Kirby, several species of fungi, and a nematode, Ektaphelenchus obtusus Massey. The nematodes and fungi occur within special pocket-like structures, hereafter termed "nematangia", on the insects' hind wings | Fenrych Marianna Jadwiga, Jakubiak Paulina | Trzópek Magdalena Maria- Łaniecki Ronald- |
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| 2020-04-02 | Wojciech Magowski | A1 | Bacterial Protection of Beetle-Fungus Mutualism Southern pine beetles, Dendroctonus frontalis, engage in a beneficial symbiosis with the fungus, Entomocorticium sp. A, which provides nourishment for their developing larvae. Adult beetles carry, Entomocorticium sp. A in a specialized storage compartment called a mycangium. | Stawrakakis Krzysztof, Sęk Oliwia Wiktoria | Kowalczyk Cyprian Piotr- Gostyńska Julia- |
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| 2020-04-06 | Wojciech Magowski | A1 | Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological and palaeontological perspectives Deuterostomes are a monophyletic group of animals that include the vertebrates, invertebrate chordates, ambulacrarians and xenoturbellids. Fossil representatives from most major deuterostome groups, including some phylum-level crown groups, are found in the Lower Cambrian, suggesting that evolutionary divergence occurred in the Late Precambrian, in agreement with some molecular clock estimates. | Lisiecki Mateusz Cezary, Zielińska Martyna Anna | Szewczyk Magdalena Wiesława- Jakubiak Paulina- |
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| 2020-04-08 | Wojciech Magowski | A1 | The first metazoa living in permanently anoxic conditions This is the first evidence of a metazoan life cycle that is spent entirely in permanently anoxic sediments. The discovery of these life forms opens new perspectives for the study of metazoan life in habitats lacking molecular oxygen. | Radwańska Anna Klara, Szymaniak Adam | Zielińska Martyna Anna- Kowalczyk Cyprian Piotr- |
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| 2020-04-09 | Arnold Bernaciak | 1) Circular Economy and its Limitations
2) The Sustainable Development Index: Measuring the Ecological Efficiency of Human Development in the Anthropocene ad.1) Please focus on explaining the term circular economy, indicating the importance of circular economy for sustainable development and indicating its limitations. ad.2) Please explain what is HDI and SDI, what are differences between them and what are top 10 ranks of countries for both indexes. | check | |||||
| 2020-04-16 | Arnold Bernaciak | 1. Sustainable University: What Can be the Matter?
2. Tension in the Sustainability of Higher Education - the Case of Finnish Universities | check | |||||
| 2020-04-23 | Arnold Bernaciak | 1. Venice: the Problem of Overtourism and the Impact of Cruises
2. Overtourism: Between the Right to Travel and Residents' Rights ad.2) Please focus on the sections 3 and 4. | ||||||
| 2020-05-21 | Kokociński Mikołaj | JC 1 | e-learning | Freshwater diatom transfer to clothing: Spatial and temporal influences on
trace evidence in forensic reconstructions | Kowalczyk Cyprian Piotr | |||
| 2020-05-28 | Kokociński Mikołaj | JC 1 | e-learning | Drought impacts on the water quality of freshwater systems; review
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| 2020-06-02 | Kokociński Mikołaj | JC 1 | Hot and toxic: Temperature regulates microcystin release
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| 2020-06-18 | Maciej Nowak | JC 1 | Modeling potential tree belt functions in rural landscapes using a new GIS tool The increasing human pressure on the environment requires effective protection activities. One way to stop the degradation of natural resources is the presence of woody vegetation networks, mainly linear in character, called linear woody features, greenways or tree belts. These objects, thanks to the many natural and economic functions they serve, enable the realization of sustainable development policy. To properly design a greenway network, the natural conditions and degree of environmental degradation in a given area must first be evaluated. Based on these data, it is possible to determine appropriate afforestation needs. To evaluate the ability of a given area to meet the requirements of greenway functions, we propose a new computer modeling system - a tree belt modeling (TBM). TBM defines the availability of tree belt functions in the planned network and is one of preparation stages in the design of an optimal greenway structure. In this work, to analyze the studied area potential, application of a cadastral dataset was proposed. Thanks to this approach, the obtained results may be related to specific plot borders, which is optimal for greenway construction. To automatize the process of analysis, the TBM was implemented into an ArcGIS toolbox. The result of using this toolbox is a tree belt functions geodatabase. This database contains information about the available functions in the analyzed lines that are potential sites for afforestation. This solution, both at the methodological and technological levels, may significantly increase the effectiveness of greenway planning and thus contribute to more effective activities for sustainable development. | Sęk Oliwia Wiktoria, Gostyńska Julia, Trzópek Magdalena Maria | Łaniecki Ronald- Szymaniak Adam- |
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| 2020-06-24 | Maciej Nowak | JC 1 | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in environmental biology: A review Acquiring information about the environment is a key step during each study in the field of environmental biology at different levels, from an individual, species to community and biome. However, obtaining information about the environment is frequently difficult due to, for example, the phenological timing, spatial distribution of a species or limited accessibility of particular area for the field survey. Moreover, remote sensing technology, which enables the observation of the Earth's surface and is currently very common in environmental research, has many limitations such as, insufficient spatial, spectral and temporal resolution, and a high cost of data acquisition. Since the 1990s, researchers are exploring the potential of different types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for monitoring Earth's surface. The present study reviews recent scientific literature dealing with the use of UAV in environmental biology. Among numerous papers, short communications and conference abstracts we selected 110 original studies of how UAVs can be used in environmental biology and which organisms can be studied in this manner. Most of these studies concerned the use of UAV to measure the vegetation parameters such as crown height, volume, number of individuals (14) and to quantify the spatio-temporal dynamics of vegetation changes (12). UAVs were also frequently applied to count birds and mammals, especially those living in the water. Generally, the analytical part of the present study was divided into following chapters: (1) detecting, assessing and predicting threats on vegetation, (2) measuring the biophysical parameters of plants/vegetation, (3) quantifying the dynamics of changes in plants and habitats, (4) population and behaviour studies of animals. At the end, we also synthesised all the information showing, among others, the advances in environmental biology due to UAV application. Considering that 33% of studies found and included in this review was published in 2017 and 2018, it is expected that the number and variety of applications of UAVs in environmental biology will increase in the future. | Lisiecki Mateusz Cezary, Kowalczyk Cyprian Piotr | Radwańska Anna Klara- Zielińska Martyna Anna- |
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| 2020-06-25 | Maciej Nowak | JC 1 | Lidar-Derived Tree Crown Parameters: Are They New Variables Explaining Local Birch (Betula sp.) Pollen Concentrations? Birch trees are abundant in central and northern Europe and are dominant trees in broadleaved forests. Birches are pioneer trees that produce large quantities of allergenic pollen efficiently dispersed by wind. The pollen load level depends on the sizes and locations of pollen sources, which are important for pollen forecasting models; however, very limited work has been done on this topic in comparison to research on anthropogenic air pollutants. Therefore, we used highly accurate aerial laser scanning (Light Detection and Ranging?LiDAR) data to estimate the size and location of birch pollen sources in 3-dimensional space and to determine their influence on the pollen concentration in Poznań, Poland. LiDAR data were acquired in May 2012. LiDAR point clouds were clipped to birch individuals (mapped in 2012?2014 and in 2019), normalised, filtered, and individual tree crowns higher than 5 m were delineated. Then, the crown surface and volume were calculated and aggregated according to wind direction up to 2 km from the pollen trap. Consistent with LIDAR data, hourly airborne pollen measurements (performed using a Hirst-type, 7-day volumetric trap), wind speed and direction data were obtained in April 2012. We delineated 18,740 birch trees, with an average density of 14.9/0.01 km2, in the study area. The total birch crown surface in the 500?1500 m buffer from the pollen trap was significantly correlated with the pollen concentration aggregated by the wind direction (r = 0.728, p = 0.04). The individual tree crown delineation performed well (r2 ? 0.89), but overestimations were observed at high birch densities (> 30 trees/plot). We showed that trees outside forests substantially contribute to the total pollen pool. We suggest that including the vertical dimension and the trees outside the forest in pollen source maps have the potential to improve the quality of pollen forecasting models. | Jakubiak Paulina, Stawrakakis Krzysztof | Fenrych Marianna Jadwiga- Szewczyk Magdalena Wiesława- |
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