Institute of Botany

2001–2006 – master’s degree studies, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Bialystok; MSc in biology

2008–2012 – PhD studies, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Jagiellonian University; PhD in biology

• Taxonomy and phytogeography
• Biological recording
• Hybridization between alien and native vascular plant species
• Invasive plants and biotic homogenization
• Nature conservation

Kostrakiewicz-Gierałt K., Pliszko A., Gmyrek-Gołąb K. 2020. The effect of visitors on the properties of vegetation of calcareous grasslands in the context of width and distances from tourist trails. Sustainability 12(2), 454: 1–28. Doi: 10.3390/su12020454

Pliszko A. 2020. First record of Asian Cardamine occulta Hornem. (Brassicaceae) in Poland. BioInvasions Records 9(3):655-659. Doi: 10.3391/bir.2020.9.3.20

Pliszko A., Klimek B., Kostrakiewicz-Gierałt K. 2020. Effect of shoot cutting on trace metal concentration in leaves and capitula of potential phytoaccumulator, invasive Erigeron annuus (Asteraceae). Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 104:668–672. Doi: 10.1007/s00128-020-02844-7

Pliszko A., Kostrakiewicz-Gierałt K. 2020. Effect of pappus removal on seed germination in Solidago ×niederederi (Asteraceae) and closely related species. Biologia 75(9):1241-1249. Doi: 10.2478/s11756-020-00506-x

Słomka A., Gubernat M., Pliszko A., Bothe H. 2020. The unusual property of the sand violet, Viola rupestris, to cope with heavy metal toxicity. Flora 271, 151663. Doi: 10.1016/j.flora.2020.151663

Nalewajko-Sieliwoniuk E., Pliszko A., Nazaruk J., Barszczewska E., Pukszta W. 2019. Comparative analysis of phenolic compounds in four taxa of Erigeron acris s. l. (Asteraceae). Biologia 74:1569–1577. Doi: 10.2478/s11756-019-00332-w

Pliszko A. 2019. Erigeron acris subsp. podolicus (Besser) Nyman (Asteraceae). pp. 171–172. In: Nobis M. et al., Contribution to the flora of Asian and European countries: new national and regional vascular plant records, 8. Botany Letters 166(2): 163–188. Doi: 10.1080/23818107.2019.1600165

Pliszko A. 2019. Typification of two natural hybrids in Rumex (Polygonaceae). Kew Bulletin 74(1)-17:1–4. Doi: 10.1007/S12225-019-9803-8

Pliszko A., Kostrakiewicz-Gierałt K. 2019. The importance of sexual, asexual and mixed ramet clusters in production of descendant ramets in populations of Solidago ×niederederi (Asteraceae). Biologia 74: 953–960. Doi: 10.2478/s11756-019-00233-y

Jaźwa M., Jędrzejczak E., Klichowska E., Pliszko A. 2018. Predicting the potential distribution area of Solidago ×niederederi (Asteraceae). Turkish Journal of Botany 42(1): 51–56. Doi: 10.3906/bot-1703-17

Pliszko A. 2018. Erigeron acris L. subsp. angulosus (Gaudin) Vacc. (Asteraceae), a new taxon in the flora of Poland. Acta Botanica Croatica 77(1): 102–104. Doi: 10.1515/botcro-2017-0020

Pliszko A., Kostrakiewicz-Gierałt K. 2018. Effect of cold stratification on seed germination in Solidago ×niederederi (Asteraceae) and its parental species. Biologia 73(10): 945–950. Doi: 10.2478/s11756-018-0113-7

Pliszko A., Kostrakiewicz-Gierałt K. 2018. The morphological intermediacy of Erigeron ×huelsenii (Asteraceae), a hybrid between E. acris and E. canadensis. Turkish Journal of Botany 42(4): 543–550. Doi: 10.3906/bot-1711-27

Puchałka R., Rutkowski L., Popa M.-O., Pliszko A., Piwczyński M. 2018. Bur-Chervil Anthriscus caucalis M. Bieb. (Apiaceae) – potentially invasive species in forests. Baltic Forestry 24(2): 189–200.

Pliszko A., Jaźwa M. 2017. Floristic composition of vegetation in habitats suitable for Erigeron ×huelsenii (Asteraceae). Acta Botanica Croatica 76(1): 9–14. Doi: 10.1515/botcro-2016-0040

Pliszko A., Kostrakiewicz-Gierałt K. 2017. Resolving the naturalization strategy of Solidago ×niederederi (Asteraceae) by the production of sexual ramets and seedlings. Plant Ecology 218(11–12): 1243–1253. Doi: 10.1007/s11258-017-0762-6

Pliszko A., Nobis M. Nowak A. 2017. Erigeron annuus (L.) Desf. (Asteraceae). pp. 25–26. In: Nobis M. et al., Contribution to the flora of Asian and European countries: new national and regional vascular plant records, 6. Botany Letters 164(1): 23–45. Doi: 10.1080/23818107.2016.1273134

Pliszko A., Zalewska-Gałosz J. 2016. Molecular evidence for hybridization between invasive Solidago canadensis and native S. virgaurea. Biological Invasions 18(11): 3103–3108. Doi: 10.1007/s10530-016-1213-3

Pliszko A. 2015. Neotypification of Solidago ×niederederi (Asteraceae). Phytotaxa 230(3): 297–298. Doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.230.3.10

Pliszko A. 2015. Taxonomic revision and distribution of Erigeron acris s. l. (Asteraceae) in Poland. Phytotaxa 208(1): 021–033. Doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.208.1.2

Pliszko A., Heise W. 2015. Typification of the names and taxonomic status of selected vascular plant taxa described by Max Eugen Heinrich Grütter. Phytotaxa 202(3): 231–232. Doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.202.3.9

Zalewska-Gałosz J., Pliszko A., Bobrov A.A. 2015. Ranunculus ×gluckii. pp. 311–312. In: Nobis M. et al., Contribution to the flora of Asian and European countries: new national and regional vascular plant records, 4. Acta Botanica Gallica: Botany Letters 162(4): 301–316. Doi: 10.1080/12538078.2015.1090329

Migdałek G., Kolczyk J., Pliszko A., Kościńska-Pająk M., Słomka A. 2014. Reduced pollen viability and achene development in Solidago ×niederederi Khek from Poland. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 83(3): 251–255. Doi: 10.5586/asbp.2014.025

10th Interdisciplinary Conference Nature-Human-Culture. Cracow, Poland, 13-16 June 2019. Active participation – poster presentation “Effect of pappus removal on seed germination in Solidago ×niederederi (Asteraceae) and closely related species”.

International workshop on ecological connectivity modelling. Kraków, 6-8 March 2018. Passive participation – co-author of poster “The potential habitat of invasive plant species. Conservative and innovative approach”.

27th Congress of the European Vegetation Survey 23-26 May, 2018, Wrocław, Poland. Passive participation – co-author of poster “Regeneration ability from shoot fragments in Solidago ×niederederi (Asteraceae) and its parental species”.

NEOBIOTA 2016 – 9th International Conference on Biological Invasions. Vianden, Luxembourg, 14–16 September 2016. Passive participation – co-author of poster “Current and potential distribution of Solidago × niederederi (Asteraceae) in Poland”.

The 11th International Conference “Synanthropization of flora and vegetation”, September 11-13, 2014, Poznań & Obrzycko, Poland. Passive participation – co-author of poster “Reproduction success and pollen limitation in natural and anthropogenic populations of orchid Malaxis monophyllos (L.) Sw.”.

• BioInvasions Records (2020)
• Botany Letters (2017)
• Botanica Lithuanica (2015, 2016, 2018)
• Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica Polonica (2020)
• Nauka Przyroda Technologie (2019)
• Thaiszia – Journal of Botany (2017)