MYCZKO, Łukasz - KUREK, Przemyslaw - TRYJANOWSKI, Piotr - WIATROWSKA, Blanka - JANKOWIAK, Lukasz - MIELCZAREK, Lukasz - SIENKIEWICZ, Pawel - RUTKOWSKI, Tomasz - ONDREJKOVÁ, Anna. Where to overwinter: burrows of medium-sized carnivores as winter places for invertebrates in temperate environment. In Ecological entomology. ISSN 0307-6946, 2021, vol. 46, no. 5, p. 1177-1184.

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OCA1. Surname awarded to the assessed personOndrejková
OCA2. Name awarded to the assessed personAnna
OCA3. Degrees awarded to the assessed personProf. , DVM, PhD
OCA4. Hyperlink to the entry of the person in the Register of university staffhttps://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/2007
OCA5. Area of assessmentstudy programme infectious diseases of animals · III. degree
OCA6. Category of the research/artistic/other outputscientific output
OCA7. Year of publication of the research/artistic/other output2021
OCA8. ID of the record in the Central Registry of Publication Activity (CRPA) or the Central Registry of Artistic Activity (CRAA)419884
OCA9. Hyperlink to the record in CRPA or CRAAhttps://app.crepc.sk/?fn=detailBiblioFormChildIF9P1&sid=66B6A7EC798AC7458B82301019&seo=CREP%C4%8C-detail-%C4%8Cl%C3%A1nok
Characteristics of the output that is not registered in CRPA or CRAA
OCA10. Hyperlink to the record in another publicly accessible register, catalogue of research/ artistic/other outputs
OCA11. Characteristics of the output in the format of the CRPA or the CRAA bibliographic record, if the output is not available in a publicly accessible register or catalogue of outputsMYCZKO, Łukasz - KUREK, Przemyslaw - TRYJANOWSKI, Piotr - WIATROWSKA, Blanka - JANKOWIAK, Lukasz - MIELCZAREK, Lukasz - SIENKIEWICZ, Pawel - RUTKOWSKI, Tomasz - ONDREJKOVÁ, Anna. Where to overwinter: burrows of medium-sized carnivores as winter places for invertebrates in temperate environment. In Ecological entomology. ISSN 0307-6946, 2021, vol. 46, no. 5, p. 1177-1184.
OCA12. Type of the output (if the output is not registered in CRPA or CRAA) article
OCA13. Hyperlink to the webpage where the output is available (full text, other documentation, etc.)https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/een.13062
OCA14. Characteristics of the author's contributionAnalysis of the results obtained.
OCA15. Annotation of the output with contextual information concerning the description of creative process and the content of the research/artistic/other activity, etc.1. Burrows are specific structures created by animals, characterised byspecific conditions different from those in the surrounding environment. Therefore,burrows may play a role for many other animals than their owners. To test this view,we have chosen the burrows of red foxes Vulpes vulpes and badgers Meles meles, twomain burrow dwellers from among medium-sized carnivores in Europe. 2. The main aim of the study was to show the importance of carnivore mammals’ bur-rows for invertebrates. However, in contrast to previously published results concerninginvertebrate burrow fauna, which were based mainly on analysis of nesting material, weused a new method based on pipe traps with optimised sampling time. 3. The investigated burrows were either visited only occasionally or abandoned. Wechose typical, commonly accessible burrows from the environment, located in forestpatches around the city of Pozna´n in western Poland. 4. During the research, we sampled 4440 invertebrate individuals. In total, we identifiedat least 91 species. The most numerous were mosquitoes, which, however, wererepresented only by one species, Culex pipiens. Among other groups, we recordedColeoptera, Diptera, Arachnida, Heteroptera, Hymenoptera, and Lepidoptera. In totalit confirms that burrows are important wintering place for many invertebrates. 5. The novelty of the study is underlining the fact that burrows created bymedium-sized carnivores are commonly used as invertebrate overwintering sheltersespecially by mosquitoes. Number of mosquitoes varied between burrows in high rangeand is a significant predictor of the other species abundance.
Other data
OCA16. Annotation of the output in English1. Burrows are specific structures created by animals, characterised byspecific conditions different from those in the surrounding environment. Therefore,burrows may play a role for many other animals than their owners. To test this view,we have chosen the burrows of red foxes Vulpes vulpes and badgers Meles meles, twomain burrow dwellers from among medium-sized carnivores in Europe. 2. The main aim of the study was to show the importance of carnivore mammals’ bur-rows for invertebrates. However, in contrast to previously published results concerninginvertebrate burrow fauna, which were based mainly on analysis of nesting material, weused a new method based on pipe traps with optimised sampling time.3. The investigated burrows were either visited only occasionally or abandoned. Wechose typical, commonly accessible burrows from the environment, located in forestpatches around the city of Pozna´n in western Poland.4. During the research, we sampled 4440 invertebrate individuals. In total, we identifiedat least 91 species. The most numerous were mosquitoes, which, however, wererepresented only by one species, Culex pipiens. Among other groups, we recordedColeoptera, Diptera, Arachnida, Heteroptera, Hymenoptera, and Lepidoptera. In totalit confirms that burrows are important wintering place for many invertebrates.5. The novelty of the study is underlining the fact that burrows created bymedium-sized carnivores are commonly used as invertebrate overwintering sheltersespecially by mosquitoes. Number of mosquitoes varied between burrows in high rangeand is a significant predictor of the other species abundance.
OCA17. List of maximum 5 most significant citations corresponding to the outputZARKA, Jens - DE WINT, Frederik C. - LUC DE BRUYN - BONTE, Dries - PARMENTIER, Thomas. Dissecting the costs of a facultative symbiosis in an isopod living with ants. In OECOLOGIA, 2022, vol. 199, no. 2, pp. 355-366. ISSN 0029-8549. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-022-05186-9., Registrované v: WOS CROFTS-BENNETT, James - LORD, Janice. Are evergreen mistletoes on deciduous hosts arthropod winter refugia? In NEW ZEALAND ENTOMOLOGIST, 2025, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 20-30. ISSN 0077-9962. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.1080/00779962.2024.2388662., Registrované v: WOS VAN DEVENTER, Henno D. - GAIGHER, Rene - PRYKE, James S. Grassland arthropod assemblages differ between a variety of neighbouring biotopes and small features in a timber production landscape. In BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION, 2025, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 2939-2955. ISSN 0960-3115. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-025-03104-y., Registrované v: Scopus, WOS
OCA18. Characteristics of the output's impact on socio-economic practiceEnvironmental protection and ecology.
OCA19. Characteristics of the output and related activities' impact on the educational processPreparation of diploma and dissertation theses.

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