M.Sc. Marek L Borowiec
Date and place of Birth: 2 May 1985, Wroclaw - Poland
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Full Address: Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy,
Zoological Institute,
University of Wroclaw,
Przybyszewskiego 63/77
51-148 Wroclaw
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Research Interests: Phylogeny, taxonomy, biogeography, and natural history of ants.
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Research Projects: Taxonomy and phylogeny of the subfamily Cerapachyinae (PhD project, 2009 - present)
Biogeography and diversity of ants of Papua New Guinea and Melanesia (Principal Investigator: Milan Janda, 2006 - present, http://www.newguineants.org/)
The Navajo Nation Ant Biodiversity Project (PIs: Naomi Pierce, Gary D. Alpert, 2009 - present, http://nap.entclub.org/)
Distribution of ant species in Poland (2005 - present)
List of Publications:
Borowiec ML, Borowiec L, Csosz S, Radchenko A (2009) Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) collected during 2006 Polish expedition to Kyrgyzstan. Genus 20(2):367-379
Borowiec ML (2009) New ant species related to Cerapachys sexspinus and discussion of the status of Yunodorylus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2069:43-58
Borowiec ML (2007) A third species of Mayriella from the Oriental Region (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus 18(4):773-776
Buschinger A, Borowiec M (2007) The pictorial representation of ants in changing times. [in German] Ameisenschutz aktuell 21:44-48.
Borowiec ML (2007) A new species of Tyrannomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from India. Zootaxa 1642:65-68.
Borowiec ML (2007) Camponotus truncatus (Spinola, 1808) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - ant species new to Poland. Polish Journal of Entomology 76:41-45
Borowiec ML (2007)["2006"] Second record of the ant Leptothorax kutteri Buschinger, 1966 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Poland. [in Polish]. Przeglad Zoologiczny L(1-2):37-40
Stankiewicz AM, Sielezniew M, Borowiec ML, Czechowski W (2005) Formica uralensis Ruzsky (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Poland. Fragmenta Faunistica 48(2):175-180
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Borowiec ML, Janda M (2007) Tropical forests of New Guinea - a look at the ant fauna of a distant country. Talk presented at the International Meeting for Conservation of Mound-building Wood Ants 15-16.09.2007, Zittau.
Janda M, Klimes P, Borowiec ML (2007) Ecology of New Guinea ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - exploring an unknown fauna. Talk presented at the Central European Workshop of Myrmecology, 2007, Szeged. [Abstract published in: Myrmecological News 10:109.]
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