Dr Michal Tomasz Jezierski

Dr Michał Jezierski

Geography and Environmental Sciences
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Michal Jezierski is a biogeographer, primarily interested in the evolution of the similarity of organisms inhabiting islands. He combines phylogenetic comparative methods, field studies and evolutionary genomics to understand evolution of island endemic species/populations at both macro- and microecological scale.

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Qualifications

  • BA in Biological Sciences (First Class), University of Oxford
  • DPhil in Zoology, University of Oxford

Research

Biogeographer interested in the evolution of biogeographical rules.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Jezierski, MT 2024, 'Birds that breed exclusively on islands have smaller clutches', The Auk, vol. 141, no. 2, ukae005. https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukae005

Jezierski, MT, Smith, WJ & Clegg, SM 2024, 'The island syndrome in birds', Journal of Biogeography, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 1607-1622. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14720

Smith, WJ, Portugal, SJ & Jezierski, M 2024, 'Use of anthropogenic landscapes in a wild Columba livia (Rock Dove) population', Ornithology. https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukae050

Smith, WJ, Jezierski, MT & Balmer, DE 2023, 'Discerning the status of a rapidly declining naturalised bird: the Golden Pheasant in Britain', Biological Invasions, vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 3341-3351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03125-0

Smith, WJ, Jezierski, MT, Dunn, JC & Clegg, SM 2023, 'Parasite exchange and hybridisation at a wild-feral-domestic interface', International Journal for Parasitology, vol. 53, no. 14, pp. 797-808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2023.06.005

Smith, WJ, Sendell-Price, AT, Fayet, AL, Schweizer, TM, Jezierski, MT, van de Kerkhof, C, Sheldon, BC, Ruegg, KC, Kelly, S, Turnbull, LA & Clegg, SM 2022, 'Limited domestic introgression in a final refuge of the wild pigeon', iScience, vol. 25, no. 7, 104620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104620

Smith, WJ, Quilodrán, CS, Jezierski, MT, Sendell-Price, AT & Clegg, SM 2022, 'The wild ancestors of domestic animals as a neglected and threatened component of biodiversity', Conservation Biology, vol. 36, no. 3, e13867. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13867

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