prof. dr hab. Błażej Berkowski

E-mail: bbrk@amu.edu.pl
Telefon: 0048-61-829 6013

profesor

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Zainteresowania naukowe:

  • Kopalne koralowce Rugosa i Heterocorallia, zagadnienia związane z ich taksonomią, ewolucją, paleoekologią i paleogeografią szczególnie w okresach dewońskim i karbońskim.
  • Fameńska radiacja koralowców po kryzysie Fran-Famen (górny dewon).
  • Ahermatypowe osobnicze, bezdissepimentowe Rugosa z głębokomorskich środowisk dolnego i środkowego dewonu Afryki Północnej i Europy.
  • Fauny koralowców z kopalnych podmorskich środowisk okolic wypływów hydrotermalnych ich ekologia i taksonomia.
  • Badania geochemiczne szkieletów koralowców Rugosa.
Streszczenia

2011

  • Berkowski B., Weyer D., 2011 – A new columellate genus of Middle Devonian deep-water Rugosa from Morocco. Koelner Forum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie 19, 16-17. Abstracts, 11th Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Sponges, Liege, August 2011.

2003

  • Bełka Z., Eisenmann Ph., Berkowski B., Dopieralska J., Skompski S. 2003 – The chemistry and biota of the Devonian submarine hydrothermal vents from the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco. GSA Abstracts with Programs 35: 148
  • Berkowski B., 2003 – Assemblages of solitary rugosans from the Devonian venting systems of Hamar Laghdad (Anti-Atlas, Morocco). 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera. Graz/Austria. Abstract Volume
  • Berkowski B., 2003 – „Fałszywe” odmłodzenia osobniczych Rugosa z Hamar Laghdad (Anty-Atlas, Maroko). Przegląd Geologiczny 51: 206
  • Bełka Z., Berkowski B., Eisenmann Ph., Dopieralska J., Skompski S. 2003 – Fauna podmorskich źródeł hydrotermalnych z dewonu Maroka. Przeglad Geologiczny, 51: 246
  • Poty E., Berkowski B., Chevalier E., Devuyst F.-X., Hance L., 2003 – Sequence stratigraphic and biostratigraphic correlations of the Dinantian of Belgium and Krakow area (Southern Poland). Abstracts of the XV Congress of the Carboniferous-Permian, Utrecht

2002

  • Bełka Z., Berkowski B., Eisenmann Ph., Dopieralska J., Skompski S. 2002 – Fossil community of the Devonian hydrothermal vents, southern Anti-Atlas, Morocco. In: Abstracts of the XIII Palaeontological Meeting in Poznan: 9-10
  • Berkowski B., 2002 – „Fałszywe” odmłodzenia osobniczych Rugosa z Hamar Laghdad (Anty-Atlas, Maroko). In: Abstracts of the XVIII PTG Palaeontological Meeting in Poznan: 9-10
  • Streel M., Avkhimovitch V.I., Berkowski B, Dreesen R., Durkina A.V., Hance L., Korn D., Mamet B., Maziane-Serraj N., Mistiaen B., Thorez J., Weber H.M., Weyer D., 2002 – Biostratigraphic correlation at the late or/and latest Famennian from Western, Central and Eastern European sections. State of the art. ECOS VIII, Toulouse

2000

  • Bełka Z. & Berkowski B., 2000 – Stable isotope signatures of coral growth bands in Scruttonia kunthi (Rugosa) and their palaeoclimatic significance. EPA Workshop „Biomarkers and Stable Isotopes in Palaeontology”: 19

1999

  • Berkowski B., 1999 – Famennian colonial Rugosa from southern Poland: recovery and extinction. 8th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera. Sendai/Japan. Abstract Volume
  • Bełka Z., Berkowski B., 1999 – Stable isotope signatures of coral growth bands in Scruttonia kunthi (Rugosa) and their palaeoclimatic significance. 8th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera. Sendai/Japan

1998

  • Berkowski B., 1998 – Fameńskie korale kolonijne z południowej Polski – pokryzysowa radiacja i wymieranie. Abstracts of the XVI PTG Palaeontological Meeting in Wiktorowo k. Inowrocławia

1995

  • Berkowski B., 1995 – Calyxcorallia, their relation to Heterocorallia and Rugosa. A blastogenetic study of Stylostrotion sudeticum Fedorowski, 1991. 7th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera. Madrid/Spain. Abstract Volume

1994

  • Berkowski B., 1994 – Strunian Corals – examples from Poland. European Dinantian Environments II, University College Dublin, Abstracts. Dublin

1993

  • Berkowski B., 1993 – Następstwo ekologiczne w rytmicznie deponowanych utworach famenu Kowali (G. Świętokrzyskie). Przegląd Geologiczny 481: 335
Artykuły

2021

  • Berkowski, B. Zapalski, M. Jarochowska E. Alderslade Ph. 2021. Early development and coloniality in Oligophylloides from the Devonian of Morocco – are Heterocorallia Palaeozoic octocorals? PLoS ONE, 16(9):e0257523, doi.10.1371/journal.pone.0257523.

2020

  • Dworczak P., G., Berkowski B., Jakubowicz M., 2020 – Epizoans immured in the heterocoral Oligophylloides maroccanus Weyer, 2017: a unique record from the Famennian (Upper Devonian) of Morocco. Lethaia, 53: 452-461

2019

  • Berkowski, B, Jakubowicz, M. Bełka Z., Król J., Zapalski M. 2019. Recurring cryptic ecosystems in Lower to Middle Devonian carbonate mounds of Hamar Laghdad (Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 523: 1–17.
  • Jakubowicz M., Król J., Zapalski M.K., Wrzołek T., Wolniewicz P., Berkowski B. 2019.At the southern limits of the Devonian reef zone: Palaeoecology of the Aferdou el Mrakib reef (Givetian, eastern Anti‐Atlas, Morocco). Geological Journal 54:10–38.
  • Zapalski M.K., Berkowski B. 2019. The Silurian mesophotic coral ecosystems: 430 million years of photosymbiosis. Coral Reefs 38 (1): 137-147.

2018

  • Berkowski, B. Zapalski, M.K. 2018. Large dwellers of the Silurian Halysites biostrome: rhizosessile life strategies of cystiphyllid rugose corals (Gotland, uppermost Llandovery) Lethaia 51, 581-595 DOI:10.1111/let.12279
  • Berkowski, B. 2018. New genus and species Wendticyathus nudus (Rugosa) and a short review of Emsian rugose corals from Hamar Laghdad, Morocco. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaeontologie Abhandlungen 290, 117 – 125.
  • Zapalski M. K., Berkowski B., & Klug C. 2018. Subepidermal Emsian “auloporids” on crinoids from Hamar Laghdad (Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaeontologie Abhandlungen 290, 103-110.
  • Król, J.J. Zapalski, M.K. Berkowski, B. 2018. Emsian tabulate corals of Hamar Laghdad (Morocco): taxonomy and ecological interpretation. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaeontologie Abhandlungen 290, 75-102.
  • Zatoń, M. Zapalski, M. Berkowski, B., Wrzołek T.2018. Cryptic encrusting communities in a Middle Devonian mesophotic paleoenvironment of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 501: 82-91 doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.04.
  • Król, J.J., Jakubowicz, M., Zapalski, M.K., Berkowski, B. 2018. Massive tabulates in competition for space: A case study from Aferdou el Mrakib (Middle Devonian, Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 497: 105-116. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.02.

2017

  • Zapalski, M.K., Nowicki, J., Jakubowicz, M., Berkowski, B. 2017. Tabulate corals across the Frasnian/Famennian boundary: architectural turnover and its possible relation to ancient photosymbiosis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 487: 416-429 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.09.028
  • Antczak. M. Berkowski, B. 2017. Ornamentation of dermal bones of Placodermi from the Lower Devonian of Morocco as a measure of biodiversity. Geologos 23:65-73. doi: 10.1515/logos-2017-0009
  • Zapalski, M. K., Wrzołek, T., Skompski, S. Berkowski, B. 2017. Deep in shadows, deep in time: the oldest mesophotic coral ecosystems from the Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland). Coral Reefs doi:10.1007/s00338-017-1575-8

2016

  • Berkowski, B, Zapalski M.K., Wrzołek T. 2016. New Famennian colonial coral (Rugosa) from the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland): an example of local evolution after Frasnian-Famennian extinction. The Science of Nature 103:33 DOI 10.1007/s00114-016-1356-1
  • Zapalski, M.K., Berkowski, B,, Wrzołek T. 2016. Tabulate Corals after the Frasnian/Famennian Crisis: A Unique Fauna from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0149767. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0149767
  • Król, J.J., Zapalski, M.K., Jakubowicz, M. Berkowski, B. 2016. Growth strategies of the tabulate coral Favosites bohemicus on unstable, soft substrates: An example from the Hamar Laghdad (Lower Devonian, Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 449: 531-540 doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.02.047

2015

  • Jakubowicz M, Berkowski B, López Correa M, Jarochowska E, Joachimski M, Belka Z (2015) Stable Isotope Signatures of Middle Palaeozoic Ahermatypic Rugose Corals – Deciphering Secondary Alteration, Vital Fractionation Effects, and Palaeoecological Implications. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0136289. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0136289
  • Zatoń M., Borszcz T., Berkowski B., Rakociński M., Zapalski M.K., Zhuravlev A., 2015 – Palaeoecology and sedimentary environment of the Late Devonian coral meadow from the Central Devonian Field, Russia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 424: 61-75 DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.02.021

2014

  • Berkowski B. Zapalski, M., 2014 – Unusual tabulate-crinoid biocoenosis from the Lower Devonian of Morocco. Lethaia 47: 176-186
  • Jakubowicz M., Berkowski B., Bełka Z., 2014 – Cryptic coral-crinoid „hanging gardens” from the Middle Devonian of southern Morocco. Geology 42: 119-122
  • Jakubowicz M., Belka Z., Berkowski B., 2014 – Frutexites encrustations on rugose corals (Middle Devonian, southern Morocco): complex growth of microbial microstromatolites. Facies 60: 631-650

2013

  • Jakubowicz M., Berkowski B., Bełka Z., 2013 – Devonian rugose coral ‘Amplexus’ and its relation to submarine fluid seepage. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 386: 180-193

2012

  • Berkowski B. 2012 – Life strategies and function of dissepiments in rugose coral Catactotoechus instabilis from the Lower Devonian of Morocco. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57: 391–400
  • Berkowski B., Klug C., 2012 – Lucky rugose corals on crinoid stems: unusual examples of subepidermal epizoans from the Devonian of Morocco. Lethaia, 45: 24-33
  • Berkowski B., Weyer D., 2012 – Hamaraxonia, a new pseudocolumellate genus of Middle Devonian deep-water Rugosa (Anthozoa) from Morocco. Geologica Belgica 15: 245-253
  • Zapalski, M.K., Berkowski B., 2012 – The oldest species of ?Yavorskia (Tabulata) from the Upper Famennian of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland). Acta Geologica Polonica, 62: 197–204

2008

  • Berkowski B., Bełka Z., 2008 – Seasonal growth bands in Famennian rugose coral Scruttonia kunthi and their environmental significance. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 265: 87-92
  • Berkowski B., 2008 – Emsian deep-water Rugosa assemblages of Hamar Laghdad (Devonian, Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Palaeontographica, Abt. A, 284: 17-68

2007

  • Poty E., Berkowski B., Chevalier E., Hance L., 2007 – Sequence stratigraphic and biostratigraphic correlations between the Dinantian deposits of Belgium and Southern Poland (Krakow area). Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on the Carboniferous-Permian, Utrecht, 2003. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences: 97-107

2006

  • Berkowski B., 2006 – Vent and mound rugose coral associations from the Middle Devonian of Hamar Laghdad (Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Geobios, 39: 155-170

2005

  • Bełka Z., Berkowski B., 2005 – Discovery of thermophilic corals in an ancient hydrothermal vent community, Devonian, Morocco. Acta Geologica Polonica, 55: 1-7

2004

  • Berkowski B., 2004 – Monospecific rugosan assemblage from the Emsian hydrothermal vents of Morocco. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 49: 75-84

2002

  • Berkowski B., 2002 – Famennian Rugosa and Heterocorallia from southern Poland. – Palaeontologia Polonica, 61: 3-88

2001

  • Berkowski B., 2001 – Astogeny of amural colonial Rugosa from the Famennian of the Sudetes – a palaeoenvironmental study. – Acta Geologica Polonica, 51: 109-120
  • Berkowski B., 2001 – Famennian colonial Rugosa from southern Poland: recovery and extinction. Bull. Tohoku Univ. Museum, 1 :285-290

1997

  • Berkowski B., 1997 – Calyxcorallia, their relation to Heterocorallia and Rugosa. A blastogenetic study of Stylostrotion sudeticum Fedorowski, 1991. Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. (Sec.Geol.), 91: 153-162

1996

  • Berkowski B., 1996 – Koralowce struńskie – przykłady z Polski. Geologos, 1: 69-78

1991

  • Berkowski B., 1991 – A blind phacopid trilobite from the Famennian of the Holy Cross Mountains. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 36: 255-264