Department of Plant Ecology and Environmental Protection

Jan Holeksa

Job Title:	Professor
Room:	1.03F
E-mail:	janhol@amu.edu.pl
Tel:	+48 61 829 5743

Research Interests

Structure and dynamics of forest ecosystems
Ecological disturbances in forest ecosystems
Ecology of dead wood
Regeneration of trees in forests
Interactions between plants and animals
Conservation of forest ecosystems in protected areas and manager stands

Brief CV

I am a graduate of the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Before becoming an employee of the Department of Plant Ecology and Environmental Protection at the Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, I worked at the Białowieża Geobotanical Station of the University of Warsaw under the direction of Professor Janusz Bogdan Falinski, at the management of the Tatra National Park in Zakopane, in the Department of Geobotany and Nature Conservation at the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection of the University of Silesia in Katowice and at the Institute of Botany PAS in Cracow. My scientific activity is connected with mountain forests of the Tatra Mountains, Babia Góra, Silesian Beskids and in the Polana Massif in central Slovakia. I have also conducted research in lowland forests of the Białowieża and Niepołomice Primeval Forests. I initiated the establishment of several forest nature reserves: in the Białowieża Primeval Forest, in Silesian Beskid and in northern Mazovia. I am a co-author of the protection plans for a dozen or so forest reserves in Silesian and Żywiec Beskids, as well as the protection plan for the Babia Góra National Park. I am a member of the State Council for Nature Protection and scientific councils of two national parks: Babia Gora National Park and Saint Cross National Park.

Teaching

Ecology
Ecology and conservation of forest ecosystems
Ethics in nature conservation
Plant cover of mountains
Plant cover of Wielkopolska

Selected Publications

Blicharska M., Angelstam P., Giessen L., Hilszczański J., Hermanowicz E., Holeksa J., Jacobsen J.B., Jaroszewicz B., Konczal A., Konieczny A., Mikusiński G. Mireki Z., Mohren F., Muys B., Niedziałkowski K., Sotirov M., Stereńczak K., Szwagrzyk J., Winder G.M., Witkowski Z., Zaplata R., Winkel G. 2020. Between biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest management – A multidisciplinary assessment of the emblematic Białowieża Forest case. Biological Conservation 248, 108614. https:/doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108614
Milne-Rostkowska F., Holeksa J., Bogdziewicz M., Piechnik Ł, Seget B., Kurek P., Buda J., Żywiec M. 2020. Where can palatable young trees escape herbivore pressure in a protected forest? Forest Ecology and Management 472, 118221. https:/doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118221
Kapusta P., Kurek P., Piechnika Ł., Szarek-Łukaszewskaa G., Zielonka T., Żywiec M., Holeksa J. Natural and human-related determinants of dead wood quantity and quality in a managed European lowland temperate forest. Forest Ecology and Management 459, 117875. https:/doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117845
Żywiec M, Fedriani JM, Kurek P, Holeksa J. Non‐trophic plant–animal interactions mediate positive density dependence among conspecific saplings. Oikos 128, 1041-1050. https:/doi.org/10.1111/oik.06071
Holeksa J., Jaloviar P., Kucbel S., Saniga M., Svoboda M., Szewczyk J., Szwagrzyk J., Zielonka T., Żywiec M. 2017. Models of disturbance driven dynamics in the West Carpathian spruce forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 388: 79-89. https:/doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.08.026
Kulakowski D., Seidl R., Holeksa J., Kuuluvainen T., Nagel T.A., Panayotov M., Svoboda M., Thorn T., Vacchiano G., Whitlock C., Wohlgemuth T., Bebi P. 2017. A walk on the wild side: Disturbance dynamics and the conservation and management of European mountain forest ecosystems. Forest Ecology and Management 388: 120-131. https:/doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.07.037
Holeksa J., Zielonka T., Żywiec M., Fleischer P. 2016. Identifying the disturbance history over a large area of larch-spruce mountain forest in Central Europe. Forest Ecology and Management 361: 318-327. https:/doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.11.031

prof. dr hab. Jan Holeksa - kierownik zakładu

Jan Holeksa

Research Interests

Brief CV

Teaching

Selected Publications

Department Team

Jan Holeksa

Professor

Witold Wachowiak

Professor

Andrzej Brzeg

Professor

Marek Jan Kasprowicz

Professor

Maria Wojterska

Professor

Anna Bujakiewicz

Senior Professor

Maria Lisiewska

Senior Professor

Lidia Trocha

Assistant

Przemysław Kurek

Assistant

Fiona Milne-Rostkowska

PhD student

Julia Zaborowska

PhD student

Bartosz Łabiszak

PhD student

Anna Durska

PhD student

Magdalena Ciupińska

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