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Michał Kowalewski is affiliated with the Florida Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research spans several fields primarily focused on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics covered in Kowalewski's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Marine animal studies overview, and Cephalopods and Marine Biology.

Kowalewski has contributed to a variety of academic journals and venues, most frequently publishing in Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, Radiocarbon, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and PeerJ.

Recent scholarly contributions by Kowalewski include:

  • Ecological regime shift preserved in the Anthropocene stratigraphic record, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • A multiscale view of the Phanerozoic fossil record reveals the three major biotic transitions, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Resilient biotic response to long-term climate change in the Adriatic Sea, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • COMPARING DIRECT CARBONATE AND STANDARD GRAPHITE 14C DETERMINATIONS OF BIOGENIC CARBONATES, 2021, Radiocarbon
  • ONSHORE-OFFSHORE TRENDS IN THE TEMPORAL RESOLUTION OF MOLLUSCAN DEATH ASSEMBLAGES: HOW AGE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS REVEAL QUATERNARY SEA-LEVEL HISTORY, 2023, Palaios

Kowalewski frequently collaborates with a number of scholars in their field. Notable co-authors include Roger W. Portell, Carrie L. Tyler, Daniele Scarponi, Kristopher M. Kusnerik, and Guy H. Means.

In addition to journal publications, Kowalewski has contributed to book publications, including a work published by Cambridge University Press titled The Ecology of Biotic Interactions in Echinoids (2023).

Best Publications

  • Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity

    Jonathan L. Payne;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown;Seth Finnegan

  • The fossil record of predation: an overview of analytical methods

    Michal Kowalewski

  • High-resolution estimates of temporal mixing within shell beds: the evils and virtues of time-averaging

    Michal Kowalewski;Glenn A. Goodfriend;Karl W. Flessa

  • Quantifying the Timing and Rate of Crustal Evolution: Global Compilation of Radiometrically Dated Detrital Zircon Grains

    Peter J. Voice;Michal Kowalewski;Kenneth A. Eriksson

  • A fossil record full of holes: The Phanerozoic history of drilling predation

    Michal Kowalewski;Alfréd Dulai;Franz T. Fürsich

  • Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record

    Patricia H. Kelley;Michał Kowalewski;Thor A. Hansen

  • Strong coupling of predation intensity and diversity in the Phanerozoic fossil record

    John Warren Huntley;Michał Kowalewski

  • Shell survival and time‐averaging in nearshore and shelf environments: estimates from the radiocarbon literature

    Karl W. Flessa;Michal Kowalewski

  • Time-Averaging, Overcompleteness, and the Geological Record

    Michał Kowalewski

  • From the Cover: Osmotrophy in modular Ediacara organisms

    Marc Laflamme;Shuhai Xiao;Michał Kowalewski

  • Dead delta's former productivity: Two trillion shells at the mouth of the Colorado River

    Michal Kowalewski;Guillermo E. Avila Serrano;Karl W. Flessa;Glenn A. Goodfriend

  • The Avalon explosion: evolution of Ediacara morphospace

    Bing Shen;Lin Dong;Shuhai Xiao;Michał Kowalewski

  • Quantitative estimates of time-averaging in terebratulid brachiopod shell accumulations from a modern tropical shelf

    Monica Carroll;Monica Carroll;Michał Kowalewski;Marcello G. Simões;Glenn A. Goodfriend

  • Stratigraphic paleoecology: Bathymetric signatures and sequence overprint of mollusk associations from upper Quaternary sequences of the Po Plain, Italy

    Daniele Scarponi;Michal Kowalewski

  • 1.3 Billion years of acritarch history: An empirical morphospace approach

    John Warren Huntley;Shuhai Xiao;Michał Kowalewski

  • Taphofacies analysis of recent shelly cheniers (beach ridges), northeastern baja california, Mexico

    Michal Kowalewski;Karl W. Flessa;Jill A. Aggen

  • Quantitative evaluation of the biostratigraphic distribution of acanthomorphic acritarchs in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China

    Kathleen A. McFadden;Shuhai Xiao;Chuanming Zhou;Michał Kowalewski

  • DRILL HOLES PRODUCED BY THE PREDATORY GASTROPOD NUCELLA LAMELLOSA (MURICIDAE): PALAEOBIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

    Michal Kowalewski

  • Increase in evenness and sampled alpha diversity through the Phanerozoic: Comparison of early Paleozoic and Cenozoic marine fossil assemblages

    Matthew G. Powell;Michal Kowalewski

  • Sequence stratigraphy and the resolution of the fossil record

    Daniele Scarponi;Darrell Kaufman;Alessandro Amorosi;Michał Kowalewski

  • The Limits of Paleontological Resolution

    Michał Kowalewski;Richard K. Bambach

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl W. Flessa
Karl W. Flessa University of Arizona
Seth Finnegan
Seth Finnegan University of California, Berkeley
Alessandro Amorosi
Alessandro Amorosi University of Bologna
Darrell S. Kaufman
Darrell S. Kaufman Northern Arizona University
Shuhai Xiao
Shuhai Xiao Virginia Tech
Jonathan L. Payne
Jonathan L. Payne Stanford University
Craig R. McClain
Craig R. McClain University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Felisa A. Smith
Felisa A. Smith University of New Mexico
Marcello Guimarães Simões
Marcello Guimarães Simões Sao Paulo State University
Richard K. Bambach
Richard K. Bambach National Museum of Natural History

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