Peer-reviewed publications:
12. Surmacz, B., Vecchi, M., Fontaneto, D., Budzik, K., Godziek, J., Matsko, Y., Stec, D. (2025). COI metabarcoding with a curated reference database and optimized protocol provides a reliable species-level diversity assessment of tardigrades. Integrative Zoology.
11. Pielech, R., Wysocki, A., Foremnik, K., Malicki, M., Surmacz, B., Szwagrzyk, J., Maciejewski, Z. (2025). Restoration of natural herbaceous vegetation and spatial variability of forest structure by gradual removal of Scots pine from former plantations. Forest Ecosystems 12:100285.
10. Surmacz, B., Stec, D., Prus-Frankowska, M., Buczek, M., Michalczyk, Ł., Łukasik, P. (2024). Pinpointing the microbiota of tardigrades: What is really there? Environmental Microbiology 26:e16659.
9. Surmacz, B., Foremnik, K., Pielech, R. (2024). Along the river: Longitudinal patterns of functional and taxonomic diversity of plants in riparian forests. Journal of Vegetation Science 35:e13225.
8. Surmacz, B. (2023). Spatial patterns of flower color variation in native and introduced ranges of Convolvulus arvensis (Convolvulaceae) revealed by citizen science data and machine learning. Plant Biology 25:681-686.
7. Gąsiorek, P., Vončina, K., Bochnak, M., Surmacz, B., Morek, W., Michalczyk, Ł. (2021). Echiniscidae (Heterotardigrada) of South Africa. Zootaxa 5156:1-238.
6. Foremnik, K., Krawczyk, W., Surmacz, B., Malicki, M., Suchan, T., Gazda, A., Pielech, R. (2021). Effects of forest stand structure on population of endangered orchid species Cypripedium calceolus L. Journal for Nature Conservation 64:126089.
5. Morek, W., Surmacz, B., López-López, A., Michalczyk, Ł. (2021). Everything is not everywhere: Time‐calibrated phylogeography of the genus Milnesium (Tardigrada). Molecular Ecology 30:3590-3609.
4. Surmacz, B., Morek, W., Michalczyk, Ł. (2020). What to do when ontogenetic tracking is unavailable: a morphometric method to classify instars in Milnesium (Tardigrada). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188:797-808.
3. Morek, W., Surmacz, B., Michalczyk, Ł. (2020). Novel integrative data for two Milnesium Doyère, 1840 (Tardigrada: Apochela) species from Central Asia. Zoosystematics and Evolution 96:499-514.
2. Surmacz, B., Morek, W., Michalczyk, Ł. (2019). What If Multiple Claw Configurations Are Present in A Sample? A Case Study with the Description of Milnesium pseudotardigradum sp. nov. (Tardigrada) with Unique Developmental Variability. Zoological Studies 58:e32.
1. Morek, W., Stec, D., Gąsiorek, P., Surmacz, B., Michalczyk, Ł. (2019). Milnesium tardigradum Doyère, 1840: the first integrative study of inter-population variability in a tardigrade species. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 57:1-23.