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  1. Too small to matter? a call to action for european small mustelid research

    Article • Mammal Research, April 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  2. The impact of predation pressure, natural light, and species-specific factors on the prevalence and intensity of nocturnal singing by diurnal birds

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  3. Metabolic–behavioural performance for overwinter survival in a wild rodent

    Article • Biology Letters, July 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Karol Zub

  4. Land cover, prey structure, and secondary seed dispersal by the White Stork: are stork nests traps or a chance for seed dispersal in a disconnected anthropogenic landscape?

    Article • Journal of Ornithology, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  5. Drivers Shaping Spillover of Aleutian Mink Disease Virus Introduced With American Mink Among Native Mustelids

    Article • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, January 2025, Wiley

    Dr Karol Zub

  6. Predation can shape the cascade interplay between heterothermy, exploration and maintenance metabolism under high food availability

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, June 2024, Wiley

    Dr Karol Zub

  7. Heterothermy use in winter is associated with reduced litter size during following breeding season

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, March 2024, Frontiers

    Dr Karol Zub

  8. Comparing direct (live-trapping) and indirect (camera-trapping) approaches for estimating the abundance of weasels (Mustela nivalis)

    Article • Mammalian Biology, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  9. Non‐invasive methods for monitoring weasels: emerging technologies and priorities for future research

    Article • Mammal Review, January 2024, Wiley

    Dr Karol Zub

  10. Eurasian Weasel Mustela nivalis Linnaeus, 1766

    Article • December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  11. Is personality and its association with energetics sex‐specific in yellow‐necked mice Apodemus flavicollis?

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, July 2023, Wiley

    Dr Karol Zub

  12. Fifty years of data show the effects of climate on overall skull size and the extent of seasonal reversible skull size changes (Dehnel's phenomenon) in the common shrew

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, October 2022, Wiley

    Dr Karol Zub

  13. Using a Modeling Approach to Inform Progress Towards Stoat Eradication From the Orkney Islands

    Article • Frontiers in Conservation Science, January 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Karol Zub

  14. The development of the Rook's (Corvus frugilegus) colony in the face of shifting spring phenology

    Article • Avian Research, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Karol Zub

  15. Plant–herbivore interactions: Combined effect of groundwater level, root vole grazing, and sedge silicification

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Karol Zub

  16. Museomics Dissects the Genetic Basis for Adaptive Seasonal Coloration in the Least Weasel

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, June 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Karol Zub

  17. Geographic patterns in seasonal changes of body mass, skull, and brain size of common shrews

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, February 2021, Wiley

    Dr Karol Zub

  18. Climate change has cascading effects on tree masting and the breeding performance of a forest songbird in a primeval forest

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Karol Zub

  19. Population structure of Apodemus flavicollis and comparison to Apodemus sylvaticus in northern Poland based on RAD-seq

    Article • BMC Genomics, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  20. Population structure of Apodemus flavicollis and comparison to Apodemus sylvaticus in northern Poland based on RAD-seq

    Article • May 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Karol Zub

  21. Applied research for optimized vertebrate management: 11thEuropean Vertebrate Pest Management Conference

    Article • Pest Management Science, March 2019, Wiley

    Zbigniew Borowski, Dr Karol Zub

  22. Linking land cover satellite data with dietary variation and reproductive output in an opportunistic forager: Arable land use can boost an ontogenetic trophic bottleneck in the White Stork Ciconia ciconia

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, January 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Karol Zub

  23. Predation on artificial ground nests in relation to abundance of rodents in two types of forest habitats in the Tatra Mountains (southern Poland)

    Article • Wildlife Research, January 2019, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Karol Zub

  24. Data exploration on diet, and composition, energy value and functional division of prey items ingested by White Storks Ciconia ciconia in south-western Poland: Dietary variation due to land cover, reproductive output and colonial breeding

    Article • Data in Brief, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Karol Zub

  25. Stephanopachys linearis (Kugelann, 1792) (Coleoptera, Bostrichidae) in Poland

    Article • Nature Conservation, July 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Karol Zub

  26. Climate change is affecting mortality of weasels due to camouflage mismatch

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  27. The NATURA 2000 database as a tool in the analysis of habitat selection at large scales: factors affecting the occurrence of pine and stone martens in Southern Europe

    Article • European Journal of Wildlife Research, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub, Prof. Andrzej Zalewski

  28. The nexus of hair corticosterone level, immunocompetence, metabolic rates and overwinter survival in the root vole, Microtus oeconomus

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Karol Zub

  29. Silence is not golden: the hissing calls of tits affect the behaviour of a nest predator

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  30. Profound seasonal shrinking and regrowth of the ossified braincase in phylogenetically distant mammals with similar life histories

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  31. Growth overshoot and seasonal size changes in the skulls of two weasel species

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, January 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Karol Zub

  32. Using soil from pellets of White StorksCiconia ciconiato assess the number of earthworms (Lumbricidae) consumed as primary and secondary prey

    Article • Ibis, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Karol Zub

  33. Silicon-based plant defences, tooth wear and voles

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, February 2016, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Karol Zub, Prof. Andrzej Zalewski

  34. Effects of forest management on bird assemblages in the Bialowieza Forest, Poland

    Article • iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, June 2015, Italian Society of Sivilculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF)

    Dr Karol Zub

  35. Immunocompetence and high metabolic rates enhance overwinter survival in the root vole, Microtus oeconomus

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Karol Zub

  36. Sixty years of Acta Theriologica—transition to Mammal Research

    Article • Mammal Research, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  37. Shaving increases daily energy expenditure in free-living root voles

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, October 2014, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Karol Zub

  38. Plant–herbivore interactions: silicon concentration in tussock sedges and population dynamics of root voles

    Article • Functional Ecology, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Karol Zub

  39. Lower body mass and higher metabolic rate enhance winter survival in root voles,Microtus oeconomus

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Karol Zub, Zbigniew Borowski

  40. Habitat Preferences of Boros schneideri (Coleoptera: Boridae) in the Natural Tree Stands of the Białowieża Forest

    Article • Journal of Insect Science, January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Karol Zub

  41. Seasonal Variation of Resting Metabolic Rate and Body Mass in Free-Living Weasels Mustela nivalis

    Article • Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, November 2013, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Karol Zub

  42. Phylogenetic analysis of mammalian maximal oxygen consumption during exercise

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, September 2013, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Karol Zub

  43. Safe for saplings not safe for seeds: Quercus robur recruitment in relation to coarse woody debris in Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Karol Zub

  44. Male Weasels Decrease Activity and Energy Expenditure in Response to High Ambient Temperatures

    Article • PLOS One, August 2013, PLOS

    Dr Karol Zub

  45. Europe-Wide Dampening of Population Cycles in Keystone Herbivores

    Article • Science, April 2013, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Karol Zub

  46. Editorial

    Article • ACTA THERIOLOGICA, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  47. The energy cost of voluntary running in the weasel Mustela nivalis

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, November 2012, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Karol Zub

  48. Individual variation in dispersal associated with phenotype influences fine-scale genetic structure in weasels

    Article • Conservation Genetics, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  49. Climate and refugial origin influence the mitochondrial lineage distribution of weasels (Mustela nivalis) in a phylogeographic suture zone

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, February 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Karol Zub

  50. Cyclic voles and shrews and non-cyclic mice in a marginal grassland within European temperate forest

    Article • ACTA THERIOLOGICA, February 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  51. Environmental and genetic influences on body mass and resting metabolic rates (RMR) in a natural population of weaselMustela nivalis

    Article • Molecular Ecology, January 2012, Wiley

    Dr Karol Zub

  52. Is there a linkage between metabolism and personality in small mammals? The root vole (Microtus oeconomus) example

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, September 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Karol Zub, Zbigniew Borowski

  53. Effect of energetic constraints on distribution and winter survival of weasel males

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, October 2010, Wiley

    Dr Karol Zub

  54. Application of microsatellite markers developed for arvicoline species in a population genetic study of the root vole Microtus oeconomus

    Article • ACTA THERIOLOGICA, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  55. Factors Affecting Habitat Selection by Breeding Lesser Spotted EaglesAquila pomarinain Northeastern Poland

    Article • Acta Ornithologica, June 2010, Museum and Institute of Zoology at the Polish Academy of Sciences

    Dr Karol Zub

  56. Trade-offs between activity and thermoregulation in a small carnivore, the least weasel Mustela nivalis

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Karol Zub

  57. Habitat requirements of weasels Mustela nivalis constrain their impact on prey populations in complex ecosystems of the temperate zone

    Article • Oecologia, July 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub

  58. Long-term repeatability of body mass and resting metabolic rate in free-living weasels, Mustela nivalis

    Article • Functional Ecology, August 2007, Wiley

    Dr Karol Zub

  59. The process of a wolf pack splitting in Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland

    Article • ACTA THERIOLOGICA, September 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karol Zub, Prof. dr hab. Jörn Theuerkauf

  60. Wolf Pack Territory Marking in the Bialowieza Primeval Forest (Poland)

    Article • Behaviour, January 2003, Brill

    Dr Karol Zub, Prof. dr hab. Jörn Theuerkauf

  61. KILL RATES AND PREDATION BY WOLVES ON UNGULATE POPULATIONS IN BIAŁOWIEŻA PRIMEVAL FOREST (POLAND)

    Article • Ecology, May 2002, Wiley

    Dr Karol Zub, Prof. dr hab. Jörn Theuerkauf

  62. Kill Rates and Predation by Wolves on Ungulate Populations in Bialowieza Primeval Forest (Poland)

    Article • Ecology, May 2002, Wiley

    Prof. dr hab. Jörn Theuerkauf, Dr Karol Zub

  63. Numbers of hibernating Barbastella barbastellus (Schreber, 1774) (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) and thermal conditions in military bunkers

    Article • Mammalian Biology, January 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Karol Zub

  64. PREY SELECTION AND PREDATION BY WOLVES IN BIAŁOWIEŻA PRIMEVAL FOREST, POLAND

    Article • Journal of Mammalogy, February 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Karol Zub

  65. Tawny Owl (Strix aluco) Predation in a Pristine Deciduous Forest (Bialowieza National Park, Poland)

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, January 1996, JSTOR

    Dr Karol Zub

  66. Resource Use by Tawny Owls Strix aluco in Relation to Rodent Fluctuations in Bialowieza National Park, Poland

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, November 1994, JSTOR

    Dr Karol Zub