Staff:
- Head of the Department:
- Professor Zofia Piotrowska-Seget (curator)
- Academic Teachers:
- Professor Stanisław Cabała (Emeritus Professor);
- Professor Stanisław Wika (Emeritus Professor);
- Professor Piotr Skubała
- Zbigniew Wilczek, PhD, DSc
- Ryszard Ciepał, PhD, DSc
- Izabella Franiel, PhD, DSc
- Aleksandra Nadgórska-Socha, PhD, DSc
- Anna Orczewska, PhD, DSc
- Bernard Palowski, PhD, DSc
- Aldona Uziębło, PhD, DSc
- Gabriela Barczyk, PhD
- Karolina Bierza, PhD
- Marta Kandziora-Ciupa, PhD
- Joanna Kohyt, PhD
- Wojciech Zarzycki, PhD
- Technical Staff:
- Alicja Barć, PhD
- Dorota Kopeć, MSc
- Ewa Skipirzepa, MSc
Main field of research:
- ecological processes and the diversity of vegetation in natural ecosystems and subjected to strong anthropogenic pressure;
- the influence of anthropogenic factors on the structure and dynamics of ecosystems and plant and animal populations;
- structure and dynamics of vegetation communities;
- processes and mechanisms driving the biotic diversity in forest communities;
- secondary succession and regeneration of the herb layer in post-agricultural and post-fire forest communities;
- age an origin of forests and their importance for biodiversity of forest communities;
- climate change and current transformation of forest communities;
- geobotanical apects of nature conservation;
- the impact of invasive plants on the formation of communities of soil mites (Acari);
- communities of soil mites in the gradient of contamination;
- bioaccumulation of heavy metals in different species of mites;
- succession of mites in dead wood;
- behavior and vocal communication in bats (Chiroptera);
- macro- and microelements content in plants at organic and conventional tillage systems;
- biomonitoring and selected trace metals accumulation in the soil and in plants on industrial sites and protected areas;
- oxidative stress enzymes and the antioxidants accumulation in plants grown under different levels of anthropogenic stress;
- soil enzymatic activities of polluted and relatively pollutants free ecosystems;
- methods in comparative plant population ecology;
- environmental education and environmental ethics.
For students:
- Erasmus +:
- Bioethics
- Vegetation ecology
- Statistical methods in natural sciences
- Environmental education
- Ordination methods in vegetation science with CANOCO package
- Restoration ecology
- Human impact on the Białowieża Forest
- Ecology and behaviour of bats
- Contemporary methods in monitoring the history of contamination of the natural environment
- Methods in ecophysiological research
- Nature of the Upper Silesia
- PhD studies on Advanced methods in biotechnology and biodiversity:
- Advanced statistical methods in natural sciences;
- Contemporary methods monitoring the history of contamination of the natural environment;
- Population and succession studies ofCentral Europeanlowland ecosystems;
- Advanced methods in ecophysiological research.