C.V.:
- 2002: Ph.D. at University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Biological Oceanography
- 2001 - present: research scientist at Institute of Oceanology PAN, Department of Marine Ecology
- 1997: M.Sc. at University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Biological Oceanography
Main scientific interests:
- Arctic Peracarida (Amphipoda, Cumacea)
- Ecology of polar scavenging fauna
- Trophic behaviour of Amphipoda
- Benthic food webs
Projects:
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2014-2017: DWARF - Declining size - a general response to climate warming in Arctic fauna? (Polish-Norwegian Research Programme, coordinator: dr Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk)
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2013-2016: Growing of the Arctic Marine Ecosystem (Polish National Science Center, contract no: 2012/04/A/NZ8/00661 – coordinator: prof. Jan Marcin Węsławski)
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2013-2016: Spatial variability of benthic food web - structure and functioning of Arctic communities of low and high diversity. (Polish National Science Center, contract no: 2012/05/B/NZ8/02652 – coordinator: dr Joanna Legeżyńska)
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2011 - 2013: Organic matter sources and sinks in high Arctic fiord. (Polish National Science Center, contract no: 2011/01/B/ST10/06985 – coordinator: dr Monika Kędra)
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2009-2011: Diversity of the ecological niches of Amphipoda in the face of the climate change in the Arctic. (Polish National Science Center, contract no: 0252/B/PO1/2009/36 – coordinator: dr Joanna Legezyńska)
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2009 - 2010: WinAMP: Winter and summer amphipods' feeding strategies. (European Centre for Arctic Environmental Research in Ny-Alesund, ARCFAC V, 2008 EC contract no. 1033/ARCFAC/2009/7 – coordinator dr Monika Kędra)
Publications:
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Węsławski JM., Dragańska-Deja K., Legeżyńska J., Walczowski W, 2018, Range extension of a boreal amphipod Gammarus oceanicus in the warming Arctic, Ecology and Evolution 8: 7624-7632
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Legeżyńska J., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M., Głuchowska M., Ormańczyk M., Kędra M., Węsławski JM, 2017, The malacostracan fauna of two Arctic fjords (west Spitsbergen): the diversity and distribution patterns of its pelagic and benthic components. Oceanologia 59: 541-564.
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Zaborska A., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M., Legeżyńska J., Jankowska E., Winogradow A., Deja K., 2018, Sedimentary organic matter sources, benthic consumption and burial in west Spitsbergen fjords – Signs of maturing of Arctic fjordic systems?, Journal of Marine Systems 180: 112-123.
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Mazurkiewicz M., Gromisz S., Legeżyńska J., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M., 2017, First record of Lacydonia eliasoni Hartmann-Schröder, 1996 (Polychaeta: Phyllodocida) in the European Arctic. Polish Polar Research 38(2): 173-183.
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Węsławski JM., Urbański J., Głuchowska M., Grzelak K., Kotwicki L., Kwaśniewski S., Legeżyńska J., Wiktor J., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M., Zaborska A., Zajączkowski M., Stempniewicz L. 2017. Can seabirds modify carbon burial in fjords? Oceanologia 59, 603-611.
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Balazy P., Kuklinski P., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M., Barnes D., Kędra M., Legeżyńska J., Węsławski J.M., 2015, Hermit crabs (Pagurus spp.) at their northernmost range: distribution, abundance and shell use in the European Arctic, Polar Research 34, 21412
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Berge, J., Daase, M., Renaud, P.E., Ambrose, W.G., Darnis G, Last, K.S., Leu, E., Cohen, J.H., Johnsen, G., Moline, M.A., Cottier, F., Varpe, Ø., Shunatova,
N., Bałazy, P., Morata, N., Massabuau, J-C., Falk-Petersen, S., Kosobokova, K., Hoppe, C.J.M., Węsławski, J.M., Kukliński, P., Legeżyńska, J., Nikishina, D., Cusa, M., Kędra, M., Włodarska-Kowalczuk, M., Vogedes, D., Camus, L., Tran, D., Michaud, E., Gabrielsen, T.M., Granovitch, A., Gonchar, A., Krapp, R., Callesen, T.A. (2015) Unexpected Levels of Biological Activity during the Polar Night Offer New Perspectives on a Warming Arctic. Current Biology 25, 1-7
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Legeżyńska J., Deja K., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M. 2015 First record of the family Dexaminidae and species Guernea (Prinassus) nordenskioldi in the west
Spitsbergen fjords (Svalbard, Greenland Sea) Marine Biodiversity Records
8, 1-5
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Kuliński K., Kędra M., Legeżyńska J., Głuchowska M., Zaborska A, 2014, Particulate organic matter sinks and sources in high Arctic fjord, Journal of Marine Systems, 139: 27-37.
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J. Legeżyńska, M Kędra, W. Walkusz 2014 Identifying trophic relationships within the high Arctic benthic community: how much can fatty acids tell? Mar Biol (2014) 161:821–836
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M. Ronowicz, J. Legeżyńska, P. Kukliński, M. Włodarska-Kowalczuk, 2013, Kelp forest as a habitat for mobile epifauna, case study of Caprella septentrionalis Kröyer, 1838 (Amphipoda, Caprellidae) in an Arctic glacial fjord, Polar Research, 21037, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v32i0.21037
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J. M. Węsławski, M. Włodarska-Kowalczuk, M. Kędra, J. Legeżyńska, L. Kotwicki, 2012, Eight species that rule today's European Arctic fjord benthos,
Polish Polar Research 33: 225-238
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M. Kędra, K. Kuliński, W. Walkusz and J. Legeżyńska , 2012 The shallow benthic food web structure in the high Arctic does not follow seasonal
changes in the surrounding environment, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf
Science, 114:183-191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2012.08.015
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J. Legeżyńska, M. Kędra and W. Walkusz, 2012, When season does not matter: summer and winter trophic ecology of Arctic amphipods., Hydrobiologia,
684:189–214
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M. Kędra, J. Legeżyńska, W. Walkusz, 2011, Shallow winter and summer macrofauna in high Arctic fjord (79° N, Spitsbergen), Marine Biodiversity,
41:425-439
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JM. Węsławski, MA. Kendall, M. Włodarska-Kowalczuk, K. Iken, M. Kędra, J. Legeżyńska, MK. Sejr, 2011, Climate change effects on Arctic fjord and coastal macrobenthic diversity. Marine Biodiversity 41, 71-85
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JM. Węsławski, A. Opanowski, J. Legeżyńska, B. Maciejewska, M. Włodarska- Kowalczuk, M. Kędra, 2010, How many roles can a species play? Hidden diversity in Arctic crustaceans,
Polish Polar Research 31: 205- 216.
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M. Kędra, S. Gromisz, R. Jaskuła, J. Legeżyńska, B. Maciejewska, E. Malec, A. Opanowski, K. Ostrowska, M. Włodarska-Kowalczuk, JM. Węsławski, 2010, Soft bottom makrofauna of an All Taxa Biodiversity Site: Hornsund (77ºN, Svalbard), Polish Polar Research, 31(4): 309 – 326
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MK. Sejr, M. Włodarska-Kowalczuk, J. Legeżyńska, ME. Blicher, 2010, Macrobenthic species composition and diversity in the Godthaabsfjord system, SW Greenland. Polar Biology 33(4):421-431.
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M. Włodarska-Kowalczuk, P. Kuklinski,
M. Ronowicz, J. Legeżyńska, S. Gromisz, 2009. Assessing species richness of macrofauna associated with macroalgae in Arctic kelp forests (Hornsund,
Svalbard), Polar Biology,32: 897-905.
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J. Legeżyńska, 2008, Food resource partitioning among Arctic sublittoral lysianassoid amphipods in summer,
Polar Biology: 31: 66-670.
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C. d'Udekem d'Acoz, W. Vader, J.
Legeżyńska, 2007, On a new diminutive Rhachotropis species from the North Sea, with a key to European Rhachotropis (Crustacea, Amphipoda,
Eusiridae). Bolletino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturalne di Verona, Botanica Zoologia, 31:31-49.
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H. Kaczmarek, M. Włodarska-Kowalczuk, J. Legeżyńska, M. Zajączkowski, 2005, Shallow sublittoral macrozoobenthos
in Kongsfjord, West Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Polish Polar Research 26 (2): 137-155.
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JM Węsławski, M Włodarska-Kowalczuk,
J Legeżyńska, 2003, Occurrence of soft bottom macrofauna along the depth gradient in High Arctic, 79 °N, Polish Polar Research 24: 72-88.
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JM. Węsławski J. Legeżyńska,
2002, Chances for Arctic Survival: Greely's Expedition Revisited, Arctic 5 (4): 373-379.
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JM Węsławski, J. Legeżyńska, 2002, Life cycles of some Arctic amphipods, Polish Polar Research 23 (3-4):
253-264.
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J. Legeżyńska, 2001, Feeding and distrbution patterns of Lysianassoid amphipods in Arctic fiord, Polish Polar Research 22(3-4): 173-186.
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M. Zajączkowski, J. Legeżyńska,
2001, Estimation of plankton mortality caused by an Arctic glacier outflow, Oceanologia, 43 (3): 341-351.
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JM. Węsławski, K. Opaliński, J.
Legeżyńska, 2000, Life cycle and production of Onisimus litoralis (Crustacea Amphipoda): The key species in the Arctic soft sediment littoral, Polish
Archives of Hydrobiology 47 (3-4): 585-596.
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J. Legeżyńska, JM. Węsławski, P. Presler, 2000, Benthic scavengers collected by baited traps in the high Arctic, Polar Biology 23: 539-544.
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JM. Węsławski, J. Legeżyńska, 1998, Glaciers caused zooplankton mortality?, Journal of Plankton Research 20: 1233-1240.
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