Mateusz Wrazidlo

Silesian University of Technology · Department of Fundamentals of Machinery Design

Tepui-Sat is focused on the development of an innovative methodology for botanical and environmental research over endemic flora habitats of the montane refugia, enabling carrying out long-term monitoring over a wide spectrum of environmental phenomena. It presents a first of its kind methodology for directly transferring the in situ work results i...

A review of recent publications concerning the South American Pantepui biogeographic region revealed recurring mistakes in the naming of several table mountains (known locally as ‘tepui’, ‘tipu’ or ‘tepuy’) located around the Guyana-Venezuela border, close to the transection of the so-called Schomburgk Line and the course of Rio Venamo. The mistake...

An expedition to the territory of Paruima and its vicinities was organized between January 3-12, 2019. The objective was to visit the areas belonging to the Guyanese outreach of the Gran Sabana (Eng. "Great Savanna") in the vicinity of the Uchii River (aka Utshi River) near the Venezuelan border and to reach the underexplored summit of the Waukauye...

Species new and old in Epidendrum

Epidendrum katarun-yariku is hereby described and illustrated as a new species of Orchidaceae native to the summits and upper slopes of the sandstone tabletop mountains (tepuis) in the Guiana Highlands in South America.

An environmental chamber is a specialistic device used for testing effects of given controlled conditions on a variety of objects. In case of plant growth chambers, the conditions are controlled usually for plant cultivation and propagation or botanical examination undertaken on living plant material. The aim of the project was to design and build...

The high altitudes and the alpine environments of the mountain reliefs of the temperate regions are defined therefore and immediately recognizable because they corresponds to the territories above the "tree line". However, these high-mountain conditions are also widely found in the intertropical belt where imposing mountain ranges and individual mo...

Poster presented at Simposio INAIGEM - Las Montañas Nuestro Futuro in Cusco, Peru, December 10th - 12th, 2019

In May 2018 I had the opportunity to co-organize an independent expedition to the areas surrounding the massif of Ptari-tepui and Sororopan-tepui in Estado Bolívar, Venezuela. My group led by a team of Pemón guides from the community of Santa Teresita de Kavanayen succeeded in reaching the location of the first scientific expeditions to the massif...