MONIKA KARPIŃSKA – KOŁACZEK
Research interests
My research interests are focused on use of non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) and testate amoebae (TA) in palaeoecological studies conducted on peat and lacustrine sediments.
Publications
Reprint request to: monika_kk@interia.eu
Published & in press
Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Czerwiński, S., Gałka, M., Guzowski, P., Lamentowicz, M., 2022. Anthropocene history of rich fen acidification in W Poland — Causes and indicators of change. Science of The Total Environment, 838 (1), 155785.
Harrison, S.P., Villegas-Diaz, R., Cruz-Silva, E., et al., 2022. The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records. Earth System Science Data, 14, 1109–1124.
Łuców, D., Küttim, M., Słowiński, M., Kołaczek, P., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Küttim, L., Salme, M., Lamentowicz, M., 2022. Searching for an ecological baseline: Long-term ecology of a post-extraction restored bog in Northern Estonia. Quaternary International, 607, 65–78.
Kołaczek, P., Buczek, K., Margielewski, W., Gałka, M., Rycerz, A., Woszczyk, M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Marcisz, K., 2021. Development and degradation of a submontane forest in the Beskid Wyspowy Mountains (Polish Western Carpathians) during the Holocene. The Holocene, 31 (11–12), 1716–1732.
Czerwiński, S., Guzowski,P., Lamentowicz, M., Gałka, Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Poniat, R., Łokas, E., Diaconu, A.-C., Schwarzer, J., Miecznik, M., Kołaczek, P., 2021. Environmental implications of past socioeconomic events in Greater Poland during the last 1200 years. Synthesis of paleoecological and historical data. Quaternary Science Reviews, 259, 106902.
Kołaczek, P., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Czerwiński, S., Marcisz, K., Lamentowicz, M., 2021. Palinologia. [In:]
Davis, B.A.S., Chevalier, M., Sommer, P., et al. 2020. The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2. Earth System Science Data, 12, 2423–2445.
Kołaczek, P., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Gałka, M., Miotk-Szpiganowicz, G., Obremska, M., Lamentowicz, M., 2020. Do the relationships between testate amoebae and fungi reflect the variability of past water table fluctuations in the ombrotrophic peatlands of Central Europe? The Holocene, 30 (8), 1186–1195.
Sobczyk, A., Borówka, R.K., Badura, J., Stachowicz-Rybka, R., Tomkowiak, J., Hrynowiecka, A., Sławińska, J., Tomczak, M., Pitura, M., Lamentowicz, M., Kołaczek, P., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Tarnawski, D., Kadej, M., Moska, P., Krąpiec, M., Stachowicz, K., Bieniek, B., Siedlik, K., Bąk, M., van der Made, J., Kotowski, A., Stefaniak, K., 2021. Geology, stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis-bearing Quaternary palaeolake(s) of Gorzów Wielkopolski (NW Poland, Central Europe). Journal of Quaternary Sciences, 35 (4), 539–558 .
Czerwiński, S., Guzowski, P., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Lamentowicz, M., Gałka, M., Kołaczek, P., Izdebski, A., Poniat, R., 2020. Znaczenie wspólnych badań historycznych i paleoekologicznych nad wpływem człowieka na środowisko. Przykład ze stanowiska Kazanie we wschodniej Wielkopolsce. Studia Geohistorica, 7, 56–74.
Feurdean, A., Vannière, B., Finsinger, W., et al., 2020. Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe. Biogeosciences, 17, 1213–1230.
Kołaczek, P., Margielewski, W., Gałka, M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Buczek, K., Lamentowicz, M., Borek, A., Zernitskaya, V., Marcisz, K., 2020. Towards the understanding the impact of fire on the lower montane forest in the Polish Western Carpathians during the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 229, 106137.
Lamentowicz, M., Kajukało-Drygalska, K., Kołaczek, P., Jassey, V.E.J., Gąbka, M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., 2020. Testate amoebae taxonomy and trait diversity are coupled along an openness and wetness gradient in pine-dominated Baltic bogs. European Journal of Protistology, 73, 125674.
Kołaczek, P., Gałka, M., Lamentowicz, M., Marcisz, K., Kajukało-Drygalska, K., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., 2019. Increased radiocarbon dating resolution of ombrotrophic peat profiles reveals periods of disturbance which were previously undetected. Quaternary Geochronology, 52, 21–28.
Niebieszczański, J., Hildebrandt-Radke, I., Vouvalidis, K., Syrides, G., Andreou, S., Czebreszuk, J., Pappa, M., Tsourlos, P., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Rzodkiewicz, M., Kołaczek, P., 2019. Geoarchaeological evidence of landscape transformations at the Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement of Nea Raedestos in the Anthemous River valley, central Macedonia, Greece. Quaternary Research (United States), 91 (2), 584–599.
Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Woszczyk, M., Stachowicz-Rybka, R., Obidowicz, A., Kołaczek, P., 2018. The impact of climate changes during the last 6000 years on a small peatland in North-Eastern Poland: A multi-proxy study. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 259, 81–92.
Dietze, E., Theuerkauf, M., Bloom, K., Brauer, A., Dorfler, W., Feeser, I., Feurdean, A., Gedminiene, L., Giesecke, T., Jahns, S., Karpinska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Lamentowicz, M., Latałowa, M., Marcisz, K., Obremska, M., Pędziszewska, A., Poska, A., Rehfeld, K., Stancikaite, M., Stivrins, N., Swięta-Musznicka, J., Szal, M., Vassiljev, J., Veski, S., Wacnik, A., Weisbrodt, D., Wiethold, J., Boris, V., Słowiński, M., 2018, Holocene fire activity during low-natural flammability periods reveals scale-dependent cultural human-fire relationships in Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews, 201, 44–56.
Kołaczek, P., Płóciennik, M., Gałka, M., Apolinarska, K., Tosik, K., Gąsiorowski, M., Brooks, S.J., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., 2018. Persist or take advantage of global warming: A development of Early Holocene riparian forest and oxbow lake ecosystems in Central Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews, 200, 191–211.
Coffinet, S., Huguet, A., Bergonzini, L., Pedentchouk, N., Williamson, D., Anquetil, C., Gałka, M., Kołaczek, P., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Majule, A., Laggoun-Défarge, F., Wagner, T., Derenne, S., 2018. Impact of climate change on the ecology of the Kyambangunguru crater marsh in southwestern Tanzania during the Late Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 196, 100–117.
Goulson, D., Frey, H., Tzinieris, S., Colin, M.-E., Marchand, P.A., Bastian, S., Richard, F.-J., Early, R., Herrick, S., Arlettaz, R., Wubs, E.R.J., Sitters, J., Seidl, I., Potthast, T., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Bücking, E., Vittoz, P., Lundgren, J.G., Stöcklin, J., Guisan, A., Hufty, M., Moretti, M., Aragno, M., Forney, J., Todorov, M.T., Gilbert, D., Geisen, S., Lara, E., Seppey, C.V.W., Kudryavtsev, A., Theurillat, J.-P., Wilkinson, D.M., Leadbeater, E. and others, 2018. Call to restrict neonicotinoids. Science, 360 (6392), 973.
Kołaczek, P., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Marcisz, K., Gałka, M., Lamentowicz, M., 2018. Palaeohydrology and the human impact on one of the largest raised bogs complex in the Western Carpathians (Central Europe) during the last two millennia. The Holocene, 28, 595–608.
Kołaczek, P., Gałka, M., Apolinarska, K., Płóciennik, M., Gąsiorowski, M., Brooks, S.J., Hutchinson, S.M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., 2018. A multi-proxy view of exceptionally early postglacial development of riparian woodlands with Ulmus in the Dniester River valley, western Ukraine. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 250, 27–43.
Kołaczek, P., Margielewski, W., Gałka, M., Apolinarska, K., Płóciennik, M., Gąsiorowski, M., Buczek, K., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., 2017. Five centuries of the Early Holocene forest development and its interactions with palaeoecosystem of small landslide lake in the Beskid Makowski Mountains (Western Carpathians, Poland) — High resolution multi-proxy study. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 244, 113–127.
Kołaczek, P., Gałka, M., Apolinarska, K., Gębica, P., Superson, S., Michno, A., Harmata, K., Szczepanek, K., Płóciennik, M., Gąsiorowski, M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., 2017. Lost in dating – Problems with the absolute chronologies and sedimentation rates of Late Glacial and Early Holocene oxbow lake deposits in Central Europe. Quaternary Geochronology, 41, 187–201.
Kołaczek, P., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Madeja, J., Kalinovych, N., Szczepanek, K., Gębica, P., Harmata, K., 2016. Interplay of climate–human–vegetation on the north-eastern edge of the Carpathians (Western Ukraine) between 7500 and 3500 calibrated years BP. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 119 (3), 609–629.
Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Stachowicz-Rybka, R., Obidowicz, A., Woszczyk, M., Kołaczek, P., 2016. A lake-bog succession vs. climate changes from 13,300 to 5900 cal. BP in NE Poland in the light of palaeobotanical and geochemical proxies. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 233, 199–215.
Marcisz, K., Colombaroli, D., Jassey, V.E.J., Tinner, W., Kołaczek, P., Gałka, M., Karpinska-Kołaczek, M., Słowiski, M., Lamentowicz, M., 2016. A novel testate amoebae trait-based approach to infer environmental disturbance in Sphagnum peatlands. Scientific Reports, 6, 33907.
Kołaczek, P., Gałka, M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Lutyńska, M., 2015. Late Pleniglacial and Late Glacial lake-mire transformations in south-eastern Poland reflected in aquatic and wetland vegetation changes. Quaternary International, 388, 39–50.
Kołaczek, P., Mirosław-Grabowska, J., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Stachowicz-Rybka, R., 2015. Regional and local changes inferred from lacustrine organic matter deposited between the Late Glacial and mid-Holocene in the Skaliska Basin (north-eastern Poland). Quaternary International, 388, 51–63.
Kołaczek, P., Gałka, M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., 2015. Succession of arboreal taxa during the Late Glacial in south-eastern Poland: Climatic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 421, 1–14.
Davis, B.A.S., Zanon, M., Collins, P., Mauri, A., Bakker, J., Barboni, D., Barthelmes, A., Beaudouin, C., Bjune, A.E., Bozilova,?E., Bradshaw, R.H.W., Brayshay, B.A., Brewer, S., Brugiapaglia, E., Bunting, J., Connor, S.E., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Edwards , K., Ejarque, A., Fall, P., Florenzano, A., Fyfe, R., Galop, D., Giardini, M., Giesecke, T., Grant, M.J., Guiot, J., Jahns, S., Jankovska, V., Juggins, S., Kahrmann M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Kühl, N., Kuneš, P., Lapteva, E.G., Leroy, S.A.G., Leydet, M., Lopez Saez, J.A., Masi, A., Matthias, I., Mazier, F., Meltsov, V., Mercuri, A.M., Miras, Y., Mitchell, F.J.G., Morris, J.L., Naughton, F., Nielsen, A.B., Novenko, E., Odgaard, B., Ortu, E., Overballe-Petersen, M.V., Pardoe, H.S., Peglar, S.M., Pidek, I.A., Sadori, L., Seppä, H., Severova, E., Shaw, H., Święta-Musznicka, J., Theuerkauf, M., Tonkov, S., Veski, S., van der Knaap, W.O., van Leeuwen, J.F.N., Woodbridge, J., Zimny, M., Kaplan, J.O., 2013. The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 22, 521–530.
Kołaczek, P., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Petera-Zganiacz, J., 2012. Vegetation patterns under climate changes in the Eemian and Early Weichselian in Central Europe inferred from a palynological sequence from Ustków (central Poland). Quaternary International, 268, 9–20.
Ejsmond, M.J., Wrońska-Pilarek, D., Ejsmond, A., Dragosz-Kluska, D., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Kozłowski, J., 2011. Does climate affect pollen morphology? Optimal size and shape of pollen grains under various desiccation intensity. Ecosphere, 2 (10), 1–15.
Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Heise, W., Worobiec, G., 2010. Tetraploa aristata Berkeley & Broome (Fungi, Pleosporales), a new taxon to Poland. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 79 (3), 239–244.
Articles in other peer-reviewed journals without impact factor:
Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Stachowicz-Rybka, R., Obidowicz, A., 2013. Palaeobotanical studies on Late Glacial and Holocene vegetation development and transformations of the 'Wielkie Błoto’ mire near Gołdap (north-eastern Poland). Acta Palaeobotanica, 53 (1), 53–67.
Kołaczek, P., Kupryjanowicz, M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Szal, M., Winter, H., Danel, W., Pochocka-Szwarc, K., Stachowicz-Rybka, R., 2013. The Late Glacial and Holocene development of vegetation in the area of a fossil lake in the Skaliska Basin (north-eastern Poland) inferred from pollen analysis and radiocarbon dating. Acta Palaeobotanica, 53 (1), 23–52.
Kołaczek, P., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Worobiec, E., Heise, W., 2012. Debarya glyptosperma (De Bary) Wittrock 1872 (Zygnemataceae, Chlorophyta) as a possible airborne alga – A contribution to its palaeoeocological interpretation. Acta Palaeobotanica 52 (1), 139–146.
Kołaczek, P., Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, B., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Gałka, M., 2010. The last two millennia of vegetation development and human activity in the Orawa-Nowy Targ Basin (southern Poland). Acta Paleaeobotanica, 50 (2), 133–148.
Chapters in monographs:
Niebieszczański, J., Gałka, M., Hildebrandt-Radke, I., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Lamentowicz, M., Rzodkiewicz, M., 2021. When archaeology meets environmental sciences: the Bruszczewo site revisited. [In:] D. Żurkiewicz (Ed.), Treasures of Time: Research of the Faculty of Archaeology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Faculty of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań: 218-235. ISBN 978-83-946591-9-6.
Kołaczek, P., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Czerwiński, S., Marcisz, K., Lamentowicz, M., 2021. Palinologia. [In:] Kurzawska A., Sobkowiak-Tabaka I. (Eds). Mikroprzeszłość. Badania specjalistyczne w archeologii. Wydział Archeologii UAM: 13-28.
Madeja, J., Harmata, K., Kołaczek, P., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Piątek, K., Naks, P., 2009. Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn), mistletoe (Viscum album (L.)) and bladder-nut (Staphyllea pinnata (L.)) – mysterious plants with unusual applications. Cultural and ethnobotanical studies. [In:] Morel J-P., Mercuri A. M (Eds). Plants and Culture: seeds of the Cultural Heritage of Europe. Centro Europeo per i Beni Culturali Ravello, Edipuglia Bari: 207-215. ISBN 978-88-7228-574-9.
Research projects – Current projects
(2020-2023) Grant of the National Science Centre 2019/33/B/HS3/00193 „Living by the lake: a history of human – environment relations on the basis of geoarchaeological study of Bruszczewo microregion (Central Poland)”. Principal Investigator: Dr Jakub Niebieszczański (Faculty of Archaeology, AMU, Poznań). Scope of work: non-pollen palynomorph (NPP) analysis.
Research projects – Past projects
(2017-2022) Grant of the National Science Centre 2017/25/B/ST10/00111 „Życie i śmierć wymarłego nosorożca (Stephanorhinus sp.) z zachodniej Polski w świetle interdyscyplinarnych badań paleośrodowiskowych”. Principal Investigator: Dr Krzysztof Stefaniak (Faculty of Biological Sciences, University in Białystok) . Scope of work – non-pollen palynomoprph (NPP) analysis.
(2016-2019) Project financed by the National Programme for the Development of Humanities, grant 2bH 15 0154 83 „W poszukiwaniu transdyscyplinarnej synergii: przełomy gospodarcze Polski z perspektywy historyczno-przyrodniczej na tle europejskim”.Principal Investigator: Dr Piotr Guzowski (Faculty of History and International Relations, University of Wrocław). Scope of work: testate amoebae (TA) analysis.
(2016-2021) Grant of the National Science Centre 2015/17/B/ST10/01656 “Problem synchroniczności pożarów i susz w gradiencie kontynentalizmu w Polsce północnej w ostatnich 4000 lat: wysokorozdzielcze, wielowskaźnikowe badania torfowisk”. Principal investigator: Prof. Mariusz Lamentowicz (Department of Biogeography and Palaeoecology, AMU, Poznań). Scope of work: preparation of a manuscript summarising the results of the research.
(2016-2021) Project of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education IUVENTUS PLUS V 0342/IP1/2016/74 „Klimat-człowiek-pożary-patogeny, a rozwój lasów polskiej części Karpat Zachodnich w ostatnich 8000 lat”. Principal investigator: Dr Piotr Kołaczek (Department of Biogeography and Palaeoecology, AMU, Poznań). Scope of work – analysis of non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs).
(2015-2018) Grant of the National Science Centre 2014/13/B/ST10/02091 “Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) as valuable indicators of changes in palaeoecosystems of ombrotrophic peat bogs in northern Poland”. Principal investigator: Dr. Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek (Department of Biogeography and Palaeoecology, AMU, Poznań). Scope of work: non-pollen palynomorph (NPP) analysis.
(2013-2016) Grant of the National Science Centre 2012/07/B/ST10/04345 „Multi-proxy palaeoecological analysis as a tool to find a solution of the Early Holocene expansion of elm (Ulmus) in southern Poland and western Ukraine”. Principal investigator: Dr Piotr Kołaczek (Department of Biogeography and Palaeoecology, AMU, Poznań). Scope of work: non-pollen palynomorph (NPP) analysis.
(2011-2017) Grant of the National Science Centre 2011/01/D/ST10/02579 „Multi-proxy study of atmospheric pollution and paleoenvironmental change in two mountainous peatlands in the south-western Poland”. Principal investigator: Dr. Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł (Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, AMU, Poznań). Scope of work: non-pollen palynomorph (NPP) analysis.
(2010-2013) Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education N N305 063739 „Późnoglacjalny i holoceński zapis przemian środowiska przyrodniczego zarejestrowany w osadach Jeziora Czarnego (Polska NE) w świetle interdyscyplinarnych badań paleoekologicznych” (in English „Late Glacial and Holocene record of environmental changes in the sediments of the Lake Czarne (NE Poland) in the light of multi-proxy palaeoecological studies”). Principal investigator: Dr. Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek (Department of Palaeobotany and Palaeoherbarium, Jagiellonian University, Cracow). Scope of work: pollen analysis including NPPs.
(2009-2013) Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education N N 304 2114 37 „Środowisko przyrodnicze i człowiek na pograniczu stref geograficznych i rubieży kultur środkowo i południowo – wschodnio europejskich w widłach Dniestru i Łomnicy w okresie neolitu i epok późniejszych (Zachodnia Ukraina)” (in English „Environment and human at the boundary of geographical zones and archaeological cultures of Central and South-Eastern Europe in the confluence of the Łomnica and Dniestr rivers during the Neolithic epoch and subsequent periods (Western Ukraine)”). Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. hab. Krystyna Harmata (Department of Palaeobotany and Palaeoherbarium, Jagiellonian University, Cracow). Scope of work: non-pollen palynomorph (NPP) analysis.
(2007-2010) Grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education N 307 062 32/ 3359 „Późnoglacjalne i holoceńskie zmiany środowiska przyrodniczego w rejonie kopalnego jeziora skaliskiego (Kraina Wielkich Jezior Mazurskich)” (in English „Late Glacial and Holocene environmental changes in the vicinity of the Skaliskie palaeolake (Masurian Lake District)”). Principal investigator: Dr. Renata Stachowicz-Rybka (Institute of Botany PAS, Cracow, Poland). Scope of work: pollen analysis.