Karolina Bącela‐Spychalska

University of Łódź — Poland

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior(56), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions(18), Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics(16), Fish Ecology and Management Studies(15), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies(15)

Publications79 total

<p>Origins of the Nimaviridae: An Ancient Virus from the Hepatopancreas of an Invasive Crustacean</p>
SSRN Electronic Journal·2026Open Access
I eat what my mother eats. Maternal effects on food preferences in invasive amphipods
NeoBiota·2025Open Access
Ponto-Caspian amphipods (Crustacea, Amphipoda) and their microsporidian parasites recently established in Sweden
NeoBiota·2025Open Access
The Role of Community Science in <scp>DNA</scp>‐Based Biodiversity Monitoring
Molecular Ecology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
The same species, not the same invader: Metabolic responses of genetically distinct invasive populations of <i>Dikerogammarus villosus</i> and their intraspecific hybrid to environmental stresses
Journal of Animal Ecology·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
The role of community science in DNA-based biodiversity monitoring
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Predation or Omnivory—Two Different Feeding Patterns Displayed by Two Intraspecific Groups of the Invasive Ponto–Caspian Amphipod—<i>Dikerogammarus villosus</i>
Freshwater Biology·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Comparing eDNA and eRNA Sampling Methodologies From Pond Environments
Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Environment, intraspecific lineages and geographic range jointly shape the high morphological variability of Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894) (Crustacea, Amphipoda): a successful aquatic invader across Europe
Hydrobiologia·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society·2024· 133 citedOpen Access
Recent invasion of Ponto-Caspian amphipods in the Masurian Lakeland associated with human leisure activities
NeoBiota·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Parasite Invasions and Impact Potential
CABI eBooks·2023· 1 cited
Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science
2023· 15 citedOpen Access
Widespread infection, diversification and old host associations of Nosema Microsporidia in European freshwater gammarids (Amphipoda)
PLoS Pathogens·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Mass invasion of the Ponto-Caspian amphipods in Masurian Lakeland associated with human leisure activities
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Histopathological screening of Pontogammarus robustoides (Amphipoda), an invader on route to the United Kingdom
Journal of Invertebrate Pathology·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Histopathological survey for parasite groups in Gammarus varsoviensis (Amphipoda)
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms·2022· 7 cited
What doesn’t kill you doesn’t make you stronger: Parasites modify interference competition between two invasive amphipods
NeoBiota·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
The ecology of ponds in the context of human activity and geography – environmental DNA and beyond
ARPHA Conference Abstracts·2021Open Access
Dictyocoela microsporidia diversity and co-diversification with their host, a gammarid species complex (Crustacea, Amphipoda) with an old history of divergence and high endemic diversity
BMC Evolutionary Biology·2020· 16 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Michał Grabowski(29), Tomasz Rewicz(18), Rémi Wattier(15), Alicja Konopacka(13), Thierry Rigaud(10), Tomasz Mamos(9), Jamie Bojko(6), Jarosław Kobak(6), Grant D. Stentiford(5), Michał Rachalewski(5), Alison M. Dunn(4), Mykola Ovcharenko(4), Denis Copilaş‐Ciocianu(3), Łukasz Jermacz(3), Adrien Quilès(3), Krzysztof Podwysocki(3), Andrea Desiderato(3), Ismael Soto(2), Paride Balzani(2), Laís Carneiro(2)