DBE - 'no alarms and no surprises'

Marcin Antczak , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
E-mail: antek@amu.edu.pl or shrike@centrum.cz
Phone: +48 61 8295703

Collegium Biologicum, Room 2.48

Research interest
Research interest: behavioral ecology, biology and ecology of shrikes Lannidae,
impaling behavior and food caching in shrikes - evolution, functions, costs and benefits, foraging ecology, habitat selection in birds, conservation biology.

Current Projects
Habitat selection in shrikes (Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor and Red-backed Shrike ( Lanius collurio ) in farmland landscape. In cooperation with P.Tryjanowski, M. Hromada, L. Kuczynski and S. Kuzniak.

Breeding ecology of the Great Grey Shrike in farmland landscape. In cooperation with P.Tryjanowski.

Teaching
Course in Ecology of individuals and population, biostatistcis, Methods in Ecology.

Short CV
Ph.D. in biology 2005, University of South Bohemia , Department of Zoology
Msc in biology 2001, Adam Mickiewicz University

Membership/Awards
Member of Editorial Board of Buteo.

Selected publications

Antczak M, Hromada M, Tryjanowski P. 2005 Spatio-temporal changes in Great Grey Shrike impaling behaviour: from food caching to communication signs. Ardea 93: 101-107.

Antczak M, Hromada M, Grzybek J, Tryjanowski P. 2004. Breeding biology of the Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor in W Poland . Acta Ornithol. 39: 9-14.

Hromada M, Tryjanowski P, Antczak M. 2002. Presence of the Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor affects breeding passerine assemblage. Ann. Zool. Fennici 39: 125-130.

Antczak M, Konwerski S,Grobelny S, Tryjanowski P. 2002. The food composition of immature and non-breeding White Storks in Poland. Waterbirds 25: 425-228.

Tryjanowski P. , Kuczynski L, Antczak M , Skoracki M, Hromada M. 2001. Within-clutch repeatability of egg dimensions in the Jackdaw (Corvus monedula): a study based on a museum collection. Biologia (Bratislava): 56: 213-217.

Tryjanowski P, Hromada M, Antczak M, Grzybek J, Kuzniak S, Lorek G. 2001. Which method is most suitable foe census of breeding populations of shrikes, Lanius collurio and Lanius excubitor . Ornis Hungarica 12 -13:223-228.

Tryjanowski P, Hromada M, Antczak M. 1999. Breeding habitat selection in the Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor - the importance of meadows and spring crops. Acta Ornithol. 34: 59-63.