Retired senior lecturer

E-mail: ryszardp-at-amu.edu.pl

Education and Qualifications:

• 1979–1984 – Study at A. Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Faculty of Biology
• 1984 – M.Sc.
• 1993 – Ph. D.
• 1983–1990 – Scientific worker in Institute of Environmental Management
• 1990–1994 – Assistant in Department of Water Protection at University of Poznan
• Since 1994  – Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer

Scientific interests:

• Problems of functioning the water ecosystems and the boggy areas
• Current state and the temporary changes in functioning of the unique oligotrophic/mesotrophic lobelian and characeans lakes
• Biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems including vegetation structure
• Mechanisms of functioning river – lake  systems in landscape
• Modelling of interactions between biotic and abiotic elements in aquatic ecosystems
• Application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Water Quality
• Biological Indicators of Lake Trophic State

Selected  publications :

See:  www.researchgate.net/profile/Piotrowicz_Ryszard

Course lectures:

• General Ecology – for students of Faculty of Biology and Faculty of Chemistry,
• Ecological Modelling in Hydrobiology – for students of Envitonmetal Protection
• Methods of Hydrobiological Studies  -for students of Faculty of Biology
• Laboratory, field, and classes activities: with wide range of Aquatic Ecology and Limnology, General Ecology, Protection of Nature, Hydrobiology and Ecological Modelling.

Topics of some example works: 

• Influence of catchment area on trophic state of selected lakes
• The influence of selected ecological factors on occurrence of the hydromacrophytes in rivers
• The assessment of ecological state of river on basis of investigations of vegetation
• Conditioning of vegetation structure of chosen peatbog in protected area (National Parks)
• Use of the new method of macrophytoindication ( MFI) to assessment of ecological state of selected lakes
• The assessment of quality of surface waters on basis secelected environmental factors