DIVISION OF MARINE PLANKTON RESEARCH

Head – Professor Maria Iwona Żmijewska

tel: +48 58 523 6847, fax: +48 58 523 6678

e-mail: maria.iwona.zmijewska@ug.edu.pl

Website: http://www.ocean.ug.edu.pl/pages/pl/o-instytucie/zaklady/zbpm/zespol.php

Research areas:

• The influence of environmental factors on pelagic fauna of boreal and polar seas
• Seasonality in pelagic ecosystems: short-term and long-term changes in zooplankton
• Biodiversity of pelagic fauna in polar waters
• Morphological, morphometric and genetic studies of common zooplankton species, especialy gelaninous fauna
• Life and behavioural strategies, especially of copepods in polar waters
• Human pressure on marine ecosystems – alien species, pathogenic changes in planktonic crustaceans in the coastal zone of the Baltic Sea
• The interaction within common species of zooplankton and the bottom communities (meroplankton) in polar regions