Position: Assistant Professor
Email: sylwia.pustkowiak@amu.edu.pl
Room: 1.20
Research Interests
- agricultural landscape ecology
- the impact of landscape heterogeneity and social information on the occurrence and distribution of birds
- the effect of urbanization on animal behaviour
- vocal mimicry in birds
- ecology of pollinating insects
Current Projects
- Biodiversity as the source of heterospecific social information: the effect on territory selection, song complexity and vocal mimicry in the Marsh Warbler (National Science Centre grant no. 2019/33/N/NZ8/02840, Principal Investigator)
Completed Projects
- Interactive effects of the social information and landascape structure on the behaviour and distribution of animals (National Science Centre grant no. 2014/14/E/NZ8/00165, 2015 – 2020, PhD student)
- The importance of singular point elements in the agricultural landscape for maintaining the diversity of farmland birds (grant for PhD students and young scientists financed by the Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2016, Principal Investigator)
Career History
- 2023 – to date: Assistant Professor at the Population Ecology Lab, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University
- 2022: PhD in Biology at the Institute of Nature Conservation Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2021 – 2022: Documentary specialist for GIS and scientific data at the Mammal Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2020 – 2021: Engineering and technical employee at the Institute of Nature Conservation Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2015: Engineer in Environmental Protection at Poznan University of Life Sciences
- 2012: MSc in Biology at Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University
- 2010: BSc in Biology at Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University
Honors & awards
- second place in the competition for the best poster at the Student Conference on Conservation Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (2019)
Classes
- Monitoring of wildlife populations
- Statistical methods in environmental protection
- Ecological modelling
- Research methods in environmental biology
- Science and practice in nature conservation
2023
Bełcik, M., Lenda, M.L., Pustkowiak, S., Woźniak, B., & Skórka, P. (2023). Social information modifies the associations between forest fragmentation and the abundance of a passerine bird. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 21386. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-48512-8
2021
Skórka, P., Banach, A., Banasiak, M. et al., (2021). Congruence between the prioritisation of conservation problems at the local and national scale: an evaluation by environmental scientists in Poland. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28(27), 35317-35326. DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-14741-5
Pustkowiak, S., Kwieciński, Z., Lenda, M., Żmihorski, M., Rosin, Z. M., Tryjanowski, P., & Skórka, P. (2021). Small things are important: the value of singular point elements for birds in agricultural landscapes. Biological Reviews. 96(4), 1386-1403. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12707
2018
Pustkowiak, S., Banaszak-Cibicka, W., Mielczarek, Ł. E., Tryjanowski, P., & Skórka, P. (2018). The association of windmills with conservation of pollinating insects and wild plants in homogeneous farmland of western Poland. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25(7), 6273-6284. DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-0864-7
External Activities
- reviews for the journals: Journal for Nature Conservation, Conservation Science and Practice, Urban Ecosystems, PeerJ
