Dariusz Bukaciński

Centre for Ecological Research PAS

Dziekanów Leśny

ul. M. Konopnickiej 1

05-092 Łomianki

e-mail: dbukacinski@cbe-pan.pl

tel. (praca) +4822 751-30-46 wew. 271

tel. (dom) +4822 659-83-00

• Education:

Master of Science - in 1988, Department of Zoology and Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Warsaw University, under supervision of prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Dobrowolski. The title of my thesis was: Variation of breeding pair numbers and habitat selection in the Black?headed Gull, Larus ridibundus, on the Vistula River islands.

PhD - in 1998, Institute of Ecology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Dziekanów Leśny, under supervision of prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Dobrowolski. The title of my doctoral dissertation was: "Adaptive significance of territorial behaviour in Common Gulls (L. canus)"

• Research interest

Population ecology, behavioural ecology, evolutionary ecology of waterbirds, especially: (a) reproductive costs, breeding strategies and life history in different habitat and population conditions; (b) relationships between social structure of population and alternative breeding strategies and altruistic behaviour (extra-pair fertilization, intra-specific brood parasitism, adoptions, etc); (c) brood sex ratio and (d) habitat protection and species conservation in Lari.

• Awards and fellowships

1998 r. - Award of the Scientific Board of Institute of Ecology PAS for the excellent doctoral dissertation

2001 r. - Award of the Division II Biological Sciences of PAS for excellent papers concerning behaviour and ecology of gulls

2000 /2002 - Fellowship of Humboldt Foundation ( research project at Bonn University; 12 months)

2002/2003 - Fellowship of Humboldt Foundation ( research project at Bonn University; 7 months)

2004 - Equipment donation from Humboldt Foundation for the equipment for genetical laboratory

• Teaching:

Supervising master and doctoral students in a field of biology and ecology of birds