Research projects:

• Current studies

  • Ecology and biogeography of testate amoebae

  • Development of testate amoebae based transfer functions for palaeoclimatic reconstructions

  • Experimental tests of response of testate amoebae to change in water table depth and climate warming through manipulative field and laboratory experiments

  • Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from peatlands with the special focus on the last millennium

  • Ecology of peatlands

• Recent projects

  
  
  • (2011-2013) Multi-proxy study of atmospheric pollution and paleoenvironmental change in two mountainous peatlands in the south-western Poland. NCN 2011/01/D/ST10/02579. Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł B. (PI), Łokas E., Gałka M., Kołaczek P., De Vleescouwer, F., Lamentowicz M.
  • (2012-2015) PSPB-013/2010 Polish-Swiss Research Programme Link entitled “Wpływ globalnego ocieplenia i susz na akumulację węgla i różnorodność biotyczną torfowisk wysokich - obecna, przeszła i przyszła perspektywa / Influence of global warming and drought on carbon sequestration and biodiversity of Sphagnum peatlands – present, past and future perspectives” Principal Investigators: dr. hab Mariusz Lamentowicz (UAM), prof. Alexandre Buttler (EPFL/WSL). Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in partnership with WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute, Laboratory of Ecological Systems - ECOS (EPFL) and Poznan University of Life Sciences (PULS) and University of Neuchâtel, Laboratory of Soil Biology.

  • (2011-2013) Słowińska S. (PI), Słowiński M., Lamentowicz M., Mitchell E.A.D., Lamentowicz Ł., Tryjanowski P. Wpływ czynników biotycznych i abiotycznych na funkcjonowanie torfowiska "Linje" - jako implikacja dla badań paleoklimatycznych. M. Lamentowicz – wykonawca. NN306060940 Minstry of Science and Higher Education.

  • (2011-2013) Mariusz Gałka (PI). M. Lamentowicz, K. Tobolski, Pim van der Knaap, M. Obremska, G. Miotk-Szpiganowicz. Wieloaspektowe badania historii rozwoju torfowisk bałtyckich w Polsce w celu wyznaczenia warunków referencyjnych na potrzeby ich ochrony. Instytucja realizująca: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza\Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych. NN305062240 Polish Minstry of Science and Higher Education.

  • (2011-2013) Krystyna Milecka (PI), Olejnik, J., Chojnicki B., J. Barabach, M. Lamentowicz, Wysokorozdzielcze badania paleośrodowiskowe torfowiska Rzecin jako podstawa interpretacji współczesnego i minionego obiegu węgla. Instytucja realizująca: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza\Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych. NN304078440 Polish Minstry of Science and Higher Education.

  • (2009-2011) Reintegration grant after KOLUMB fellowship from Foundation for Polish Science.

• Past projects

  • (2007-2010) USA National Science Foundation, DEB Division of Environmental Biology DEB 0640052. RUI - Bryophytes as Biodomes: Bryophytes and their Associated Microfaunal Diversity in Two Cloud Forests Project leader: Dr. Dimaris Acosta-Mercado, University of Puerto Rico, USA., E.A.D. Mitchell (ECOS, EPFL, WSL, Switzerland) and M. Lamentowicz (UAM, Poland, informal cooperation): analysis of testate amoebae.

  • (2008-2010) Ministry of Science and Higher Education (NN305083935)

    Przestrzenno-czasowa dynamika zanikania jezior torfowiskowych w warunkach naturalnych i modyfikowanych antropogenicznie (Spatial and temporal dynamics of floating peatlands initiation and expansion in natural and anthropogenic conditions) PI: dr Grzegorz Kowalewski, prof. Kazimierz Tobolski, dr Milena Obremska, prof. Krystyna Milecka, dr Anna Halkiewicz, Mariusz Lamentowicz - cooperation.

  • (2009-2010) Funded by Minstry of Science and Higher Education (NN305077936)

    Relationships between testate amoeba communities (Protista: Testacealobosa: Filosa) and environment in minerotrophic peatlands of western Poland, PI Łukasz Lamentowicz. Cooperation: Maciej Gąbka, Mariusz Lamentowicz.

  • (2009-2010) Funded by Minstry of Science and Higher Education (NN305320436)

    Biochemical processes in the acrotelm of peat-forming systems of fens and bogs (Ocena przemian chemicznych i biochemicznych akrotelmu i katotelmu torfowisk niskich i wysokich na tle uwarunkowa? przyrodniczych środowisk torfotwórczych). Principal Investigator: prof. dr hab. Lech Szajdak: Polish Academy of Sciences: Lech Szajdak. Grant of the Minstry of Science and Higher Education (7 participants), Mariusz Lamentowicz - testate amoebae biology and palaeoecology.

  • (2008-2009) Fellowship for Mariusz Lamentowicz from the Foundation for Polish Science (KOLUMB)

    for the visit in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne, Laboratory of Ecological Systems (ECOS), WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research) Wetlands Study Group. Project title: How global warming and human impact affect testate amoebae (Protists) in Sphagnum peatlands. An experimental approach. Seasonal nutrient partitioning between plants and microbial communities in alpine peatlands -PI- Luca Bragazza (Department of Biology and Evolution - University of Ferrara, Italy PI), Alexandre Buttler ( EPFL/WSL, Switzerland), Edward A.D. Mitchell (EPFL/WSL, Switzerland), Mariusz Lamentowicz (EPFL/WSL, Switzerland & Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

  • (2008-2009) RESEARCH GRANT OF THE MINISTRY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

    Two kyrs record of atmospheric supplies in Western (Hautes Fagnes, Belgium) and Eastern Europe (Poland): Impacts of regional pollution in peatbogs. PI Anna Pazdur (Instytut Fizyki, Politechnika Śląska, Wydział Matematyczno-Fizyczny, Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki) & Nathalie Fagel (Department of Geology, University of Liege). Mariusz Lamentowicz - palaeoecology.

  • (2007-2009) N N305 3259 33 Peatlands and buried lakes of Suwalki Landscape Park - a source of palaeoecological data, dr Galka Mariusz (PI), Mariusz Lamentowicz - testate amoebae analysis.

  • (2006-2010) European climate of the last millennium Millennium Sub-Priority 6.3 Global Change and Ecosystems SUSTDEV-2004-3.1.4.1

    The past climate and its dynamics. Integrated Project Co-ordinator: Prof. Danny McCarroll University of Wales Swansea. 40 partners. One of the partners is the Institute of Plant Sciences from University of Bern (Switzerland), coordinator - professor Martin Grosjean. Mariusz Lamentowicz works with team from University of Bern on a Sphagnum mire from Swiss Alps - analysis of testate amoebae.

  • (2006-2009) Swiss National Science Foundation project Addressing challenges in the ecology, biogeography, and taxonomy of testate amoebae for their use as paleoclimatic indicators. Principal Investigators: Edward A.D. Mitchell, Jan Pawlowski (Co-PI); Partnership: Håkan Rydin, U. Uppsala SE; Mariusz Lamentowicz, U. Poznan, PL; Harri Vasander, U. Helsinki, FIN; Ralf Meisterfeld, U. Aachen, D; Alexey Smirnov, U.St.-Petersburg, RU; Louis Beyens, U. Antwerp, BE; Bjartmar Sveinbjörnsson, U. of Alaska Anchorage, U.S.A.

  • (2006 - onwards) Funded from the budget of Polish Geological Institute. Climatic and environmental changes of Gdańsk Balic shore in the Holocene – interdisciplinary study. Principal Investigator dr Grażyna Miotk-Szpiganowicz; cooperation Mariusz Lamentowicz – field work and quantitative testate amoebae analysis.

  • (2005-2007) RESEARCH GRANT OF THE MINISTRY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (2P04G04929)

    Palaeoecological reconstruction of wetlands transformation caused by building of Żur dam lake (Tuchola Pinewoods), Principal Investigator: Milena Obremska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland); Mariusz Lamentowicz - field work and testate amoebae analysis.

  • (June 2005 - 2007). RESEARCH GRANT OF THE MINISTRY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (2P04G03228)

    Climatic changes in Pomerania (N Poland) in the last millennium based on the multiproxy high-resolution studies. Principal Investigator - Mariusz Lamentowicz; Associated Partners: dr. A. Cedro (University of Szczecin, Poland), dr. K. Milecka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland), prof. K. Tobolski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) and dr. E.A.D. Mitchell (EPFL & WSL-AR, Switzerland).

  • (June 2005 - 2007). RESEARCH GRANT OF THE MINISTRY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (2P04E02228)

    Changes in the Natural Environment of Wzniesienia Łódzie in the Vistulian and Holocene in the light of interdisciplinary palaeoecological research of the Żabieniec mire; Principal Investigator: dr. Jacek Forysiak (University of Łódź, Poland); Associated Partners: dr Juliusz Twardy (University of Łódź, Poland); prof. dr hab. Sławomir Żurek (Świętokrzyski University, Poland); mgr Zofia Balwierz, (University of Łódź, Poland); dr Piotr Kittel (University of Łódź, Poland); dr Marek Kloss (Polish Akademy of Sciences, Poland), Centrum Badań Ekologicznych; dr Joanna Żelazna-Wieczorek (University of Łódź, Poland); Mariusz Lamentowicz - testate amoebae analysis, palaeoecology.

  • (September 2004 - 2007). RESEARCH GRANT OF THE MINISTRY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (2P04G06627)

    Origin and dynamics of small lake-mire ecosystems on moraine and outwash plain areas of Pomerania. Principal Investigator: prof. Kazimierz Tobolski (Adam Mickiewicz University); Associated Partners: Prof. dr hab. Józef Szmeja (University of Gdańsk, Dep. of Plant Ecology), Prof. dr hab. Sławomir Żurek (HolyCross Academy of J. Kochanowski in Kielce, Institut of Geography, Department of Quaternary Paleogeography and Nature Protection.), dr inż. Krystyna Milecka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Department of Biogeography and Palaeoecology), dr Grzegorz Kowalewski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Department of Biogeography and Palaeoecology), dr Katarzyna Bociag (University of Gdańsk, Dep. of Plant Ecology), dr Krzysztof Banaś (University of Gdańsk, Dep. of Plant Ecology), dr Krzysztof Gos (University of Gdańsk, Dep. of Plant Ecology), Mariusz Lamentowicz - testate amoebae analysis, palaeoecology.

  • (2004 - 2005) Financed by: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

    Plant Survival in Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems http://www.unine.ch/nccr/ The survival of plants is of fundamental importance to guarantee the biodiversity in natural areas and a sustainable agriculture. The sub-project (below NCCR Plant Survival) is: Pattern and long-term changes in pasture-woodlands: Complex interactions in a traditional type of agro-forestry (project 6). prof. Brigitta Ammann & Per Sjoegren (University of Bern, Institute of Plant Sciences) palaeoecology part is to assess the vegetation history from natural archives, Mariusz Lamentowicz - analyses of testate amoebae and plant macrofossils.

  • (2001-2004) RESEARCH GRANT OF THE MINISTRY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (3P04G04323). Development and origin of the mires situated in Stążka Valley in Tuchola Landscape Park. Principal Investigator: Mariusz Lamentowicz, Adam Mickiewicz University.

  • (1999-2002) RESEARCH GRANT OF THE STATE FORESTS

    Functions of natural and seminatural peatlands in nature and management structure of Tuchola Pinewoods, Principal Investigator: prof. Kazimierz Tobolski Adam Mickiewicz University; Mariusz Lamentowicz responsible for - Geology and vegetation study of mires of Tuchola Forestry Management.

  • (2001-2003) RESEARCH GRANT OF THE THE MINISTRY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (6P04G02921)

    History of oligotrophic lakes and mires of Tuchola Pinewoods based on chosen objects at protected areas, Principal Investigator dr inż. Krystyna Milecka (Adam Mickiewicz University), Mariusz Lamentowicz; field sampling of lake sediments, laboratory analysis of plant macrofossils.