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Main unit: Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology

Head of Section: dr hab. Michał Grabowski, prof. nadzw. UŁ

Contact:
Gmach Biologii, 90-237 Lodz, ul. Banacha 12/16
e-mail:michalg(at)biol.uni.lodz.pl
Tel:+48(0)42 6354296

Staff:
dr Anna Drozd
prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Jażdżewski
mgr Ewa Janowska
dr Radomir Jaskuła
dr Alicja Konopacka
dr Iwona Krysiak
dr Agnieszka Soszynska-Maj

Research topics:

• Range extension, biology and ecology of invasive crustaceans (Amphipoda, Decapoda).

• Risk assessment and alteration of structure and functioning of benthic communities due to invasive of alien species.

• Alien invertebrate species in aquatic trophic networks.

• Biogeography, ecology and taxonomy of fresh- and brackishwater Amphipoda (Crustacea) in Western Palearctic (particularly Balkan Peninsula, Middle East).

• Zoogeography, biology, ecology and taxonomy of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae).

• Role of protected areas in preserving species diversity of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae).

• Zoogeography and ecology of aquatic beetles  (Coleoptera aquatica) in Central Europe and Balkan Peninsula.

• Contribution of various insect groups to the diet spectrum of bats (Chiroptera) in Poland.

• Biology and ecology of threatened terrestrial clausiliid gastropods (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae).

• Life cycles and reproductive strategies of terrestrial snails (Gastropoda terrestria).

• Condition of woodland gastropod assemblages within protected areas in Central Poland.

• Taxonomy and distribution of empidid flies (Empididae: Clinocerinae, Hemerodromiinae) in Poland.

• Biology and ecology of aquatic Empididae (Diptera) in Western Carpathians.

• Biology and ecology (feeding strategies) of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae).

• Biodiversity and ecology of winter-active entomofauna and arachnofauna (Insecta, Arachnida).

• Role of winter field-work for studies upon entomofauna of Poland.

• Relationship between winter activity of invertebrates and atmospheric factors (with stress on climat warming and snow cover disappearance).

• Role of woodlands in preserving diversity of nival fauna within urban and suburban areas.