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Animal Science and Veterinary
Poland
2025

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
35
Citations
4772
World Ranking
1728
National Ranking
6

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
4939
World Ranking
7355
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Poland Leader Award

Overview

Łukasz Kaczmarek is affiliated with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. The primary research focus lies within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Physiology and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of work include:

  • Tardigrade Biology and Ecology
  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Spaceflight effects on biology
  • Biofield Effects and Biophysics
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Łukasz Kaczmarek are:

  • Milena Roszkowska
  • Pushpalata Kayastha
  • Monika Mioduchowska
  • Magdalena Gawlak
  • Hanna Kmita

Łukasz Kaczmarek has published extensively in numerous scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • The European Zoological Journal
  • Annales Zoologici
  • Diversity
  • Zootaxa
  • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Recent publications by Łukasz Kaczmarek cover various ecological and taxonomic studies, with selected examples as follows:

  • "Integrative description of bisexual Paramacrobiotus experimentalis sp. nov. (Macrobiotidae) from republic of Madagascar (Africa) with microbiome analysis," 2020, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • "Revisiting the genus Mesobiotus Vecchi et al., 2016 (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae) - remarks, updated dichotomous key and an integrative description of new species from Madagascar," 2020, Zoologischer Anzeiger
  • "Tips and tricks how to culture water bears: simple protocols for culturing eutardigrades (Tardigrada) under laboratory conditions," 2021, The European Zoological Journal
  • "New Records of Antarctic Tardigrada with Comments on Interpopulation Variability of the Paramacrobiotus fairbanksi Schill, Förster, Dandekar and Wolf, 2010," 2020, Diversity

Additional relevant research in related fields includes studies on microbial survival under stress conditions and astrobiological applications. This reflects a broad scientific engagement within polar ecology and microbiome analysis as well as potential implications for planetary science and resource utilization.

Best Publications

  • The Tardigrada Register: a comprehensive online data repository for tardigrade taxonomy

    Łukasz Michalczyk;Łukasz Kaczmarek

  • Anhydrobiosis in tardigrades--the last decade.

    Weronika Wełnicz;Markus A. Grohme;Łukasz Kaczmarek;Ralph O. Schill

  • An integrative description of Macrobiotus paulinae sp. nov. (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae: hufelandi group) from Kenya

    Daniel Stec;Radoslav Smolak;Łukasz Kaczmarek;Łukasz Michalczyk

  • Redescriptions of three Milnesium Doyere, 1840 taxa (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae), including the nominal species for the genus

    Łukasz Michalczyk;Weronika Wełnicz;Marcus Frohme;Łukasz Kaczmarek

  • Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part III: North America and Greenland

    Łukasz Kaczmarek;Łukasz Michalczyk;Sandra J. Mcinnes

  • The terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate biodiversity of the archipelagoes of the Barents Sea; Svalbard, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya

    S.J. Coulson;P. Convey;K. Aakra;L. Aarvik

  • Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada

    Łukasz Kaczmarek;Łukasz Michalczyk;Sandra J. McInnes

  • The Macrobiotus hufelandi group (Tardigrada) revisited.

    Łukasz Kaczmarek;Łukasz Michalczyk

  • Tardigrades from Peru (South America), with descriptions of three new species of Parachela.

    Łukasz Kaczmarek;Joanna Paulina Cytan;Krzysztof Zawierucha;Dawid Diduszko

  • An experimental test of eutardigrade preparation methods for light microscopy

    Witold Morek;Daniel Stec;Piotr Gąsiorek;Ralph O. Schill

  • Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America.

    Łukasz Kaczmarek;Łukasz Michalczyk;Sandra J McInnes

  • Estimating optimal sample size for tardigrade morphometry

    Daniel Stec;Piotr Gąsiorek;Witold Morek;Paulina Kosztyła

  • What animals can live in cryoconite holes? A faunal review

    K. Zawierucha;M. Kolicka;N. Takeuchi;Ł. Kaczmarek

  • Doryphoribius mexicanus, a new species of Tardigrada (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae) from Mexico (North America)

    Clark W. Beasley;Łukasz Kaczmarek;Łukasz Michalczyk

  • A description of the new tardigrade Macrobiotus reinhardti (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae, harmsworthi group) with some remarks on the oral cavity armature within the genus Macrobiotus Schultze

    Łukasz Michalczyk;Łukasz Kaczmarek

  • The Zoogeography of Marine Tardigrada

    Łukasz Kaczmarek;Paul J. Bartels;Milena Roszkowska;Diane R. Nelson

  • Current knowledge on Mexican tardigrades with a description of Milnesium cassandrae sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae) and discussion on the taxonomic value of dorsal pseudoplates in the genus Milnesium Doyère, 1840.

    Antonio Moreno-Talamantes;Milena Roszkowska;Mario Alberto García-Aranda;José Juan Flores-Maldonado

  • Recommended abbreviations for the names of genera of the phylum Tardigrada.

    Emma Perry;William R Miller;Łukasz Kaczmarek

  • ITS‐2 and 18S rRNA data from Macrobiotus polonicus and Milnesium tardigradum (Eutardigrada, Tardigrada)

    Weronika Wełnicz;Markus A. Grohme;ŁUkasz Kaczmarek;Ralph O. Schill

  • Experimental taxonomy confirms the environmental stability of morphometric traits in a taxonomically challenging group of microinvertebrates

    Paulina Kosztyła;Daniel Stec;Witold Morek;Piotr Gąsiorek

  • New records of Tardigrada from Bulgaria with the description of Macrobiotus binieki sp. nov. (Eutardigrada : Macrobiotidae) and a key to the species of the harmsworthi group

    Łukasz Kaczmarek;Bartłomiej Gołdyn;Zofia M. Prokop;Łukasz Michalczyk

  • Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa

    Sandra J. Mcinnes;Łukasz Michalczyk;Łukasz Kaczmarek

Frequent Co-Authors

Łukasz Michalczyk
Łukasz Michalczyk Jagiellonian University
Krzysztof Zawierucha
Krzysztof Zawierucha Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen
Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen University of Copenhagen
Diego Fontaneto
Diego Fontaneto Water Research Institute
Kirsten Christoffersen
Kirsten Christoffersen University of Copenhagen
Jorge Cortés
Jorge Cortés University of Costa Rica
John E. Brittain
John E. Brittain University of Oslo
Peter Convey
Peter Convey British Antarctic Survey
Martin Holmstrup
Martin Holmstrup Aarhus University
Nozomu Takeuchi
Nozomu Takeuchi Chiba University

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