Anna Bednarska, PhD
Department of Hydrobiology
Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw
at Biological and Chemical Research Centre
Żwirki i Wigury 101
02-089 Warsaw
Poland
Tel.: +48 22 55 26568
Fax.: +48 22 55 26575
Email: a.bednarska[at]uw.edu.pl
Research interests:
- ecology of zooplankton
- fito - zooplankton interaction
- adaptive response of Daphnia to environmental stress
- impact of forecasted global climate change on Daphnia - cyanobacteria interactions
- molecular basis of phenotypic plasticity
Given courses:
- Field workshop of Aquatic Ecology (for the graduate students of Department of Hydrobiology)
Grant projects
- Significance of maternal and fraternal genes set in the shaping of phenotypic responses of Daphnia from D. longispina complex induced by the presence of cyanobacteria (project leader, 2005)
- Phenotypic plasticity of Daphnia from D. longispina complex in response to the different aspects of filamentous cyanobacteria presence (project leader, 2005-2007)
- Cyanobacteria – herbivorous zooplankton interaction under forecasted global warming conditions (project leader, 2009-2012)
- Impact of cyanobacteria and global warming on reproductive related traits of planktonic cladocerans of Daphnia genus (project leader, 2016-2019)
- Ecological and molecular aspects of aging - Daphnia model (investigator, 2007-2009)
- Ecology of sex: Daphnia model (investigator, 2008-2012)
- Ecology of ageing - Daphnia model (investigator, 2010-2011
- Plankton of small astatic ponds – study of dispersal in time and space (investigator, 2011-2014)
- The effect of temperature on species composition and size structure of the lake zooplankton communities (investigator, 2011-2014)
Selected publications
- Bednarska A., Pietrzak B., i Pijanowska J. (2014) - Effect of poor manageability and low nutritional value of cyanobacteria on Daphnia magna life history performance. Journal of Plankton Research, 36: 838-847 PDF via publisher
- Bednarska A., Slusarczyk M. (2013) - Effect of non-toxic, filamentous cyanobacteria on egg abortion in Daphnia under various thermal conditions. Hydrobiologia 715:151–157 PDF via publisher
- Pietrzak B., Bednarska A., Markowska M., Rojek M., Szymanska E., Slusarczyk M. (2013) - Behavioural and physiological mechanisms behind extreme longevity in Daphnia. Hydrobiologia 715: 125-134 PDF via publisher
- Bednarska A., Łoś J., Dawidowicz P. (2011) - Temperature dependent effect of filamentous cyanobacteria on Daphnia magna life history traits. Journal of Limnology 70: 353-358 PDF
- Pietrzak B., Bednarska A., Grzesiuk M. (2010) - Longevity of Daphnia magna males and females - Hydrobiologia 364: 71-75 PDF via publisher
- Pietrzak B., Grzesiuk M., Bednarska A. (2010) - Food quantity shapes life history and survival strategies in Daphnia magna (Cladocera) - Hydrobiologia 364: 51-54 PDF via publisher
- Van Doorslaer W., Stoks R., Duvivier C., Bednarska A., De Meester L. (2009) - Population dynamics determine genetic adaptation to temperature in Daphnia - Evolution 63: 1867-1878 PDF
- Bednarska A., Dawidowicz P. (2007) - Change in filter-screen morphology and depht selection: uncoupled responses of Daphnia to the presents of filamentous cyanobacteria - Limnol.Oceanogr. 52:2358-2363 PDF
- Bednarska A.(2006) - Adaptive changes in morphology of Daphnia filter appendages in response to food stress - Pol. J. Ecol. 54:663-667 PDF
- Bednarska A. (2006) - Cyanobacteria and their influence on herbivore zooplankton (in Polish, English summary) - Wiad. Ekol. 52:58-87