Andrzej Pisera

Andrzej Pisera
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
TitleProfessor habilitated doctor of Earth Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology
InstitutionsInstitute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
WebsiteOfficial page

Andrzej Pisera is a Polish paleoecologist and researcher of fossil and modern red algae, echinoderms, and sponges.

Biography

Pisera studied at the Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, where he received his master’s degree in 1974. Since 1981, his career has been associated with the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, where he earned his PhD in 1986 and habilitation in 1998.[1] In 1993–1994, he was a Fulbright Foundation scholar.[2] In 2015, he was awarded the title of professor of Earth Sciences.[1][3] He is one of the editors of the World Porifera Database, a subproject of the World Register of Marine Species.[4]

Scientific achievements

Significance in the history of science

Pisera is co-author of Systema Porifera, an authoritative[5] taxonomic revision of all (approx. 680) genera of modern sponges,[6] as well as author of a revision of Upper Jurassic sponges from the Swabian Jura (124 species). Pisera and co-authors also proposed a new model for the formation of the giant spicule (up to 3 m long) in the glass sponge Monorhaphis chuni.[7]

He described numerous new taxa:

  • genera of Devonian sponges, including Jazwicella Rigby & Pisera, 2001, Polonospongia Rigby & Pisera, 2001, Astyloscyphia Rigby & Pisera, 2001;
  • genera of modern sponges, including Neoschrammeniella Pisera & Lévi, 2002,[6] Isabella Schlacher-Hoenlinger, Pisera & Hooper, 2005,[8] and Levispongia Schuster, Pisera, Ekins & Debitus, 2021;[9]
  • numerous species.

Recognition

Three animal species were named in his honor: a fossil (Jurassic) gastropod Buvignieria piserai Kaim, 2004,[10] a fossil (Cretaceous) sponge Laocetis piserai Vodrážka & Crame, 2011,[11] and a modern sponge Neoschrammeniella piserai Carvalho, Cárdenas, Ríos, Cristobo, Rapp & Xavier, 2020.[12]

Selected publications

  • Rafowe utwory miocenu z Roztocza zachodniego (1978)[13]
  • Tithonian crinoids from Rogoźnik (A. Pisera & J. Dzik, 1979)[14]
  • Występowanie, diageneza i oznaczanie kalcytu magnezowego (I. Iwasińska, M. Narkiewicz & A. Pisera, 1981)[15]
  • Miocene reefs of the Paratethys (1996)[16]
  • Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb (1997)[17]
  • Upper Devonian sponges from the Holy Cross Mountains (co-author, 2001)[18]
  • Systema Porifera (co-author, 2002)[6]
  • Palaeontology of sponges – A review (2006)[19]
  • Insights into the structure and morphogenesis of the giant basal spicule of the glass sponge Monorhaphis chuni (A. Pisera et al., 2021)[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Ludzie Nauki: Andrzej Pisera, prof. dr hab". ludzie.nauka.gov.pl. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
  2. ^ "Andrzej Pisera". fulbrightscholars.org. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
  3. ^ "Prezydent wręczył nominacje profesorskie 57 osobom". www.prezydent.pl. 2015-04-23.
  4. ^ "World Porifera Database". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2024-04-22.
  5. ^ Hooper, John N.A.; Van Soest, Rob W.M. (2004). "Systema Porifera. A Guide To The Classification Of Sponges …. The End Of A Beginning" (PDF). Boll. Mus. Ist. Biol. Univ. Genova. 68: 19–38.
  6. ^ a b c Hooper, John N. A.; Van Soest, Rob W. M.; Willenz, Philippe, eds. (2002). Systema Porifera. doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5. ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  7. ^ a b Pisera, Andrzej; Łukowiak, Magdalena; Masse, Sylvie; Tabachnick, Konstantin; Fromont, Jane; Ehrlich, Hermann; Bertolino, Marco (2021-11-08). "Insights into the structure and morphogenesis of the giant basal spicule of the glass sponge Monorhaphis chuni". Frontiers in Zoology. 18 (1): 58. doi:10.1186/s12983-021-00440-x. ISSN 1742-9994. PMC 8576975. PMID 34749755.
  8. ^ Schlacher-Hoenlinger, M.A.; Pisera, A.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2005). "Deep-sea "lithistid" assemblages from the Norfolk Ridge (New Caledonia), with description of seven new species and a new genus (Porifera, Demospongiae)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 27 (4): 649–698.
  9. ^ Schuster, A.; Pisera, A.; Ekins, M.; Debitus, C. (2021-01-01). "New genus and species of lithistid demosponges from submarine caves in Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands) and Tahiti Iti (Society Islands), French Polynesia". The European Zoological Journal. 88 (1): 749–770. doi:10.1080/24750263.2021.1939450. hdl:10072/413290. ISSN 2475-0263. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  10. ^ Kaim, Andrzej (2004). "The evolution of conch ontogeny in Mesozoic open sea gastropods" (PDF). Palaeontologia Polonica. 62: 1–183.
  11. ^ Vodrážka, Radek; Crame, J. Alistair (2011). "First fossil sponge from Antarctica and its paleobiogeographical significance". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (1): 48–57. Bibcode:2011JPal...85...48V. doi:10.1666/10-069.1. JSTOR 23019497.
  12. ^ Carvalho, Francisca C.; Cárdenas, Paco; Ríos, Pilar; Cristobo, Javier; Rapp, Hans Tore; Xavier, Joana R. (2020-04-07). "Rock sponges (lithistid Demospongiae) of the Northeast Atlantic seamounts, with description of ten new species". PeerJ. 8 e8703. doi:10.7717/peerj.8703. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 7147441. PMID 32292645.
  13. ^ Pisera, Andrzej (1978). "Rafowe utwory miocenu z Roztocza zachodniego". Przegląd Geologiczny (in Polish). 26 (3): 159–163. ISSN 0033-2151. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  14. ^ Pisera, Andrzej; Dzik, Jerzy (1979). "Tithonian crinoids from Rogoźnik (Pieniny Klippen Belt, Poland) and their evolutionary relationships". Eclogae Geologae Helvetiae. 72 (3): 805–849.
  15. ^ Iwasińska, Irena; Narkiewicz, Marek; Pisera, Andrzej (1981). "Występowanie, diageneza i oznaczanie kalcytu magnezowego". Przegląd Geologiczny. 29 (3): 113–118.
  16. ^ Pisera, Andrzej (1996). "Miocene reefs of the Paratethys: a review". In Franzen, E.; Esteban, M.; Ward, B.; Rouchy, J.M. (eds.). Models for carbonate stratigraphy from Miocene reef complexes of Mediterranean regions. SEPM, Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology, Volume 5. pp. 97–104. doi:10.2110/csp.96.05. ISBN 1565760336.
  17. ^ Pisera, Andrzej (1997). "Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology" (PDF). Palaeontologia Polonica. 57: 1–216.
  18. ^ Rigby, J. Keith; Pisera, Andrzej; Wrzolek, Tomasz T.; Racki, Grzegorz (May 2001). "Upper Devonian Sponges from the Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland". Palaeontology. 44 (3): 447–488. Bibcode:2001Palgy..44..447R. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00187. ISSN 0031-0239.
  19. ^ Pisera, A. (2006-02-01). "Palaeontology of sponges — a review". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 84 (2): 242–261. Bibcode:2006CaJZ...84..242P. doi:10.1139/z05-169. ISSN 0008-4301. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
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