Project
Institute of Landscape Ecology
International Projects
Biodiversa+ - The European Biodiversity Partnership
Biodiversa+ pilotný projekt monitoringu biodiverzity
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2024 - 31. 12. 2025 |
| Evidence number: | 52 79 0332 |
| Program: | Multilaterálne - iné |
| Project leader: | Ing. Špulerová Jana PhD. |
| Annotation: | The pilot project is implemented and supported under Work Package 2 (WP2) of the Biodiversa+ project, which aims to establish a transnational network of national biodiversity monitoring systems. The pilot project is thematically divided into Mapping and monitoring of grassland and wetland habitats and Automated monitoring of birds, bats and nocturnal insects through sound and image recognition. |
| Project web page: | https://www.biodiversa.eu/ |
ELMEN - ELMEN - Inter-institutional single framework contract for the provision of assistance for the technical and financial monitoring of ongoing projects funded from previous and on-going LIFE programmes and on thematic support
ELMEN - Multi-inštitucionálny rámcový kontrakt na poskytovanie asistencie pre technické a finančné monitorovanie bežiacich projektov spolufinancovaných z predchádzajúcich a súčasného LIFE programu a pre tematickú podporu
| Duration: | 1. 4. 2023 - 31. 3. 2027 |
| Evidence number: | 52 79 0325 |
| Program: | Multilaterálne - iné |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Bezák Peter PhD. |
| Annotation: | The ELMEN contract is focused mainly on monitoring of quality and professional and financial correctness of implementation of the EU co-funded projects of the LIFE programme. These projects support the enhancement of Natura 2000 network through concrete conservation actions, deal with various environmental issues, climate change adaptation and mitigation, circular economy and quality of life and clean energy. Monitoring experts regularly check the implementation of projects in the field or beneficiaries’ premises, evaluate submitted project reports and provide any other required thematic support related to the LIFE programme to the European Commission (DG Environment and CINEA). |
| Project web page: | https://www.elmen-eeig.eu/ |
FarmBioNet - Farmer-focused Biodiversity and Agricultural Knowledge Network
FarmBioNet – sieť pre poľnohospodárov zameraná na biodiverzitu a poznatky o poľnohospodárskych postupoch
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2027 |
| Program: | Horizont Európa |
| Project leader: | Ing. Špulerová Jana PhD. |
| Annotation: | Abstract * The beneficial links between biodiversity and agriculture have not yet been adequately communicated to farmers and foresters, thereby creating reluctance in the uptake of biodiversity-friendly farming (BFF) practices, including in Natura 2000 sites. FarmBioNet will address this knowledge gap in European farming and forestry. The FarmBioNet consortium combines the expertise of natural and social scientists, farmer organisations, SMEs, NGOs, businesses, and Ministries in 13 countries (11 member states). FarmBioNet will promote Europe-wide knowledge exchange and integration of research findings and practices related to farmland biodiversity, especially inside Natura 2000 sites, including those relevant to climate change mitigation/adaptation and soil health. It will evaluate and refine measures, and develop and use cross-sectoral approaches, to collect and distribute, at national and European level, easily accessible, practice-oriented, and context specific knowledge on BFF practices. Central to FarmBioNet is the establishment of Farming and Biodiversity National Networks (NNs), consisting of farmer/forester individuals and organisations, researchers, NGOs, advisors, and other relevant AKIS actors. FarmBioNet will use these NNs to gather and disseminate knowledge and information. NNs will use BFF case-study areas to promote exchange of traditional and evidence-based actions that benefit farm biodiversity, through a cocreation and cross-fertilisation process. Cost-benefit analyses, showing how biodiversity can benefit sustainable food production, and development of practical decision-making tools will promote biodiversity with farmers and foresters, and local, regional and national policy makers. FarmBioNet aims to position Europe as a global leader for biodiversity-friendly farmland management practices, harnessing knowledge to protect biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides, which are vital to sustainable land management and bring wider societal benefits. |
| Project web page: | https://farmbionet.eu/ |
IMPAWOS - IMPAWOS - Impact of alien and native woody plants on vegetation and soil: two sides of the same coin?
IMPAWOS - Vplyv cudzích a pôvodných drevín na vegetáciu a pôdu: dve strany jednej mince?
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2025 |
| Evidence number: | 2022/04/Y/NZ8/00057 |
| Program: | Multilaterálne - iné |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Kanka Róbert PhD. |
| Annotation: | There is an ongoing debate whether introduced alien invasive species impose a greater threat to biodiversity than native species that are spreading in current, transformed landscapes. This question is important not only from the scientific point of view, but also for local managers, nature conservationists, and various stakeholders. Trees and shrubs often act as ecosystem engineers; they influence light conditions, the structure of vegetation, and co-occurring species. Their canopies serve as habitats for other organisms like birds, reptiles, or insects. Additionally, many tree species are important commodities in forestry, which makes them rather controversial if we consider their negative impact on biodiversity and ecosystems. IMPAWOS project will focus here on woody species and their impacts on vegetation, soil properties, and activity of soil biota and propose to establish microbiological analyses as new indicators of the soil health. |
MORIDEK - MORIDEK - Modelling long term impacts of plant invasions on danubian ecosystems
MORIDEK - Modelovanie vplyvov rastlinných invázií na dunajské ekosystémy
| Duration: | 1. 6. 2024 - 31. 5. 2026 |
| Evidence number: | 52320335 |
| Program: | Iné |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Halada Ľuboš CSc. |
| Annotation: | The activities of the proposed MORIDEK project complement the interdisciplinary nature of the original Horizon Europe project Restore4Life, which represents an innovation action addressing the socially significant issue of wetland restoration. Our proposed MORIDEK project contributes primarily to the scientific and research component of this innovation activity, which is necessary for demonstrating the importance of wetland restoration based on solid and reliable scientific foundations. Specifically, it focuses on assessing the impact of a particular threat to the Danube's alluvial wetlands, which is posed by plant species invasions. Invasive plants represent a significant threat to many of the Danube's alluvial wetlands, which are important and valuable ecological zones in Europe, but also act as catalysts for the spread of these invasive species. These invasive plant species can significantly disrupt ecosystem balance, threatening native species and the overall functionality of wetlands. The project will employ innovative approaches to assess the impacts of plant invasions using a combination of Earth observation (EO) and ecosystem process modeling (EM), aiming to contribute to the understanding of potential impacts of plant invasions on wetlands, particularly in terms of carbon and nutrient flows. |
PANGEOS - PANGEOS - Pan-European Network of Green Deal Agriculture and Forestry Earth Observation Science
PANGEOS - Pan-European Network of Green Deal Agriculture and Forestry Earth Observation Science
| Duration: | 6. 11. 2023 - 6. 11. 2027 |
| Evidence number: | CA22136 |
| Program: | COST |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Halabuk Andrej PhD. |
| Annotation: | The sustainability of Europe’s green resources are threatened by climate change associated environmental changes. Agricultural systems and forests are among the ecosystems mostly interlinked with human health and wellbeing due to the socio-economic services they provide. Whether heat, drought, extreme weather, or biotic stressors, conventional agriculture and forestry today is unprepared for future climate scenarios, rising populations, changing consumption habits, and traditional management practices need re-thinking. The objectives set by PANGEOS are developed in the wake of the European Green Deal strategic goals. For agriculture, these include ensuring food security in the face of climate change, strengthening the EU food system’s resilience and reducing the environmental and climate footprint of the EU agricultural sector towards a competitive and sustainable use and management of resources. For forestry, these span the protection, restoration and enlargement of the EU’s forests to combat climate change, reversing biodiversity loss and ensuring resilient and multifunctional forest ecosystems. To support these goals, PANGEOS aims to leverage state-of-the-art remote sensing (RS) technologies to advance field phenotyping workflows, precision agriculture/forestry practices and larger-scale operational assessments for a more sustainable management of Europe’s natural resources. We propose to bridge the gap between state-of-the-art technologies and applied sciences, to directly serve and inform academics, Young Researchers and Innovators, Inclusiveness Target Countries and Near Neighbor Countries, end-users (e.g., farmers, foresters), and stakeholders in industry and policy-makers by bringing together RS experts and applications in (1) Field Phenotyping, (2) Precision and Regenerative Agriculture, (3) Sustainable Land Management of Complex European landscapes, and (4) Uncertainty Analysis and Standardization. |
| Project web page: | https://pangeos.eu/ |
PAREUS - PAREUS - Providing Adaptive knowledge for Ratcheting up the EU Biodiversity strategy for Sustainable landscapes and protected areas
PAREUS - Poskytovanie adaptívnych poznatkov pre posilnenie stratégie EÚ v oblasti biodiverzity pre udržateľné krajiny a chránené oblasti
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2025 |
| Evidence number: | Biodiversa2021-688 |
| Program: | Horizont Európa |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Kanka Róbert PhD. |
| Annotation: | PAREUS follows the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) throughout its activities by mapping, evaluating, developing, and synthesizing landscape sustainability within selected cases with direct engagement with stakeholders to share, anticipate, reflect and respond to the overarching challenge (Fig. 1). The project will take a landscape approach23 by mapping and synthesizing documents to evaluate the spatial synergies and trade-offs between policy targets for biodiversity and possible pathways to ensure land degradation neutrality for protecting and restoring nature in National Case Studies (NCS). PAREUS consists of, besides a dedicated project coordination management work package (see section V.C for more details), of the six objective-driven work packages. |
| Project web page: | https://www.biodiversa.eu/2023/04/19/pareus/ |
SUNRISE - SUpporting the agroecological traNsition thRough livIng labS nEtworks
Podpora prechodu na agroekológiu prostredníctvom siete živých laboratórií
| Duration: | 1. 4. 2025 - 31. 3. 2028 |
| Evidence number: | 0343 |
| Program: | ERANET |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Bezák Peter PhD. |
| Annotation: | Sunrise Agroecology is a European initiative dedicated to advancing agroecology by creating a vibrant network of Agroecological Living Labs (AELLs) in 10 countries. Building on five existing labs and five promising initiatives, the project supports a collaborative approach to innovation. Sunrise Agroecology develops practical solutions to key agronomic challenges – paving the way for a more sustainable and resilient agricultural future. AELLs are framed at sub-regional or regional level and are based on networks of actors (multi-actor teams, MATs) already engaged in agroecological practices/value chains at an early or advanced stage. |
| Project web page: | https://www.sunrise-agroecology.eu/ |
NAMS ELMEN - Assistance to the Member States for the implementation of EU nature conservation policy and legislation, including the Nature Restoration Regulation
Pomoc členským štátom pri implementácii politiky a legislatívy EÚ v oblasti ochrany prírody, vrátane nariadenia o obnove prírody
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2027 |
| Evidence number: | 52 79 0340 |
| Program: | Iné |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Bezák Peter PhD. |
| Annotation: | The service contract aims to support DG ENV in the preparation of events that aim to build capacity, share best practices, and foster collaboration among government officials, experts, and stakeholders in nature conservation across the EU. This is implemented through the following tasks: 1) Preparing and Coordinating the Annual Event Programme, 2) Preparing a Minimum of 21 Events (Workshops, Seminars, Training Sessions), 3) Ensuring the Successful Running of Events and 4) Follow-up and Post-Event Support. |
EUGW - EU Grassland Watch – CO4N2K update
Pozorovanie trávnych porastov - aktualizácia CO4N2K
| Duration: | 22. 1. 2024 - 16. 5. 2026 |
| Evidence number: | ENV/2022/OP/0029 |
| Program: | Bilaterálne - iné |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Halada Ľuboš CSc. |
| Annotation: | EU Grassland Watch will support the monitoring and management of N2000 sites with a focus on grasslands and thereby assess the health of protected areas / ecosystems through time. The Copernicus programme will provide valuable resources for mapping and monitoring the sites through existing ready to use service products and operational Earth Observation (EO) image acquisitions. The results of the analysis processes will be exposed to users through a user-friendly and intuitive webtool to support their reporting and management needs at a range of scales from the pan-European to site levels. |
| Project web page: | https://cop4n2k.eu/ |
EMERALD - Regional Collaboration in Protecting Biodiversity & Ecosystems in Eastern Partnership Countries
Regionálna spolupráca pre ochranu biodiverzity a ekosystémov v krajinách Východného partnerstva
| Duration: | 1. 8. 2024 - 31. 12. 2025 |
| Program: | Multilaterálne - iné |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Lieskovský Juraj PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project's primary objectives are focusing on enhancing the development, management and awareness of the Emerald network and promoting biodiversity conservation in Eastern Partnership countries: Armenia, Georgia, Moldovia, Ukraine. Primarily, it aims to deepen the understanding of Emerald site management, encompassing both legal aspects and knowledge acquisition from the Natura 2000 management framework. Furthermore, the project strives to raise awareness on such recent EU biodiversity protection initiatives as the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the Nature Restoration Law. It aims to promote biodiversity integration into sectoral policies, programs, and investment projects. while encouraging community engagement in biodiversity conservation. The project also aspires to identify challenges associated with establishing the Emerald Network in Eastern Partnership countries and achieving national and international biodiversity targets. Additionally, the project will facilitate progress monitoring and reporting, including submissions to the European Environment Agency's Reportnet. Finally, the implementation of communication activities is central to the project, serving to inform key stakeholders and the broader public about the environmental, economic, and social benefits of protected areas, as well as the pivotal role that various stakeholder groups and citizens play in biodiversity protection. |
Restore4Life - Restore4Life - Restoration of wetland complexes as life supporting systems in the Danube Basin
Restore4Life - Obnova mokraďových komplexov ako systémov podporujúcich život v povodí Dunaja
| Duration: | 1. 6. 2023 - 31. 5. 2027 |
| Evidence number: | 101112736 |
| Program: | Horizont Európa |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Halada Ľuboš CSc. |
| Annotation: | Restore4Life demonstrates the multiple socio-economic benefits generated by a holistic and transdisciplinary approach for the restoration of freshwater and coastal wetlands in the Danube basin that will contribute to new blue-green infrastructure supporting regional climate change resilience and mitigation. Restore4Life engages in 4 demonstration sites and 6 monitoring sites all across the Danube basin to make evident that increased delivery of key ecosystem services, as water and pollutant retention, carbon sequestration and tourism opportunities as well as improved resilience of water-dependent habitats will produce multiple socioeconomic synergies that also provide opportunities for sustainable businesses and investments. Implementation of activities basically aiming to restore lateral connectivity in riverine corridors will be supported by a Restore4Life long term wetland restoration service/ Restore4Life Wetland Reconstruction Accelerator that combines timely integrative wetland management with a novel level of societal engagement. The Accelerator will provide tested indicators, monitoring approaches and decision support to identify adapted and future-oriented restoration goals, techniques and holistic road maps. Citizens and stakeholders will be empowered to engage in the co-design of projects by establishing stakeholder communities of practice, by twinning of similar projects at different realization stage, citizen science, thematic mobile apps and the use of multiple communication channels with special focus on visual, hands-on interactive information flow that promotes emotional links to water shaped environment. The various tools generated by Restore4Life also including handbooks for business audiences and targeted restoration roadmaps will secure the efficient replication of restoration activities in associated regions. In collaboration with similar mission activities, Restore4Life thus efficiently supports integrative social and economic transitions. |
National Projects
Analysis and evaluations of the environmental history of selected types of Slovak landscape from the early prehistory to the present
Analýzy a hodnotenia environmentálnej histórie vybraných typov krajiny Slovenska od mladšieho praveku po súčasnosť
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2026 |
| Evidence number: | VEGA 2/0031/23 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Piscová Veronika PhD. |
| Annotation: | By using natural resources, ecosystem services and activities, man directly or indirectly affects the natural environment and the quality of its components, within a time and space framework. The extent and intensity of human influence on the landscape has been changing over the centuries, depending on current period. To identify the degree of human influence on the landscape, it is essential to get know the original landscape, which has not been significantly affected by man. As such, a landscape no longer exists in the Central Europe; it needs to be scientifically reconstructed in some way. The aim of the project is to reconstruct the landscape, in model areas representing selected types of the Slovak landscape, in several periods of historical and archaeological past and to evaluate the consequences of human activities in them. It is important to analyse the relationship between man and his environment over the time. |
NUCPEC - Nutrient cycling in terrestrial plant ecosystems of the Carpathians in the changing world
Cyklus živín v terestriálnych rastlinných ekosystémoch Karpát v meniacom sa svete
| Duration: | 1. 9. 2024 - 31. 8. 2026 |
| Evidence number: | 09I03-03-V04-00130 |
| Program: | Plán obnovy EÚ |
| Project leader: | Dr.nat.techn. Ing. Merganičová Katarína |
| Annotation: | The main idea of the project is to develop a model-data fusion framework, which will combine ground-based and remote sensing observations, and dynamic process-based modelling of ecosystem development to study nutrient dynamics in plant ecosystems of the Carpathians under the influence of environmental conditions, and natural and human-induced disturbances at different temporal levels. The overall objective is to enhance the understanding of short-, mid- and long-term plant ecosystem dynamics driven by climate, disturbances and management practices, and to examine the impact of their temporal changes, which will allow more reliable predictions of future trajectories of ecosystem development under different scenarios. The partial objectives are: Objective 1: to analyse the long-term changes in nutrient cycling in vegetation of the Carpathians using a process-based modelling approach driven by the historic reconstruction of land cover and land use based on remote sensing and historical maps covering a period from the year 1819, Objective 2: to analyse the mid-term inter-annual nutrient dynamics in vegetation of the Carpathians at the local and/or regional level driven by natural and/or human induced disturbances derived from ground-based data, and available remote sensing products covering historical periods, such as Landsat archive, based on the continuous development of ecosystem stocks and fluxes simulated by a process-based model from the year 1949 until present, Objective 3: to determine the impact of intra-annual climate anomalies on the nutrient cycling in plant ecosystems at a local level using process-based modelling and dense annual time series of remote sensing vegetation products such as LAI from combined Landsat-Sentinel products and available high temporal resolution ground-based observation data from intensively monitored research sites and eddy covariance measurements. |
EKOBLOK - Diversity, landscape elements and reassessment of agricultural blocks of the intensive and extensive landscape of Slovakia
Diverzita, krajinné prvky a optimalizácia poľnohospodárskych blokov intenzívnej a extenzívnej krajiny Slovenska
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2028 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0110/25 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Bezák Peter PhD. |
| Annotation: | The Strategic Plan of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for Slovakia 2023-2027 better reflects the global environmental changes compared to the previous versions. Relevant measures are aimed mainly at protecting and improving biodiversity, mitigation and adaptation to climate change. This means, for example, reducing large monoculture plots, increasing the non-productive area, etc., and this can directly enhance biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services. But how the size, structure and management of agricultural blocks affect biodiversity and ecosystem services? Regular monitoring and scientific knowledge about these interactions so far are insufficient in Slovakia. A scientific comparison of unchanged blocks and blocks impacted by ecological interventions can help reveal the links between landscape diversity and correlated management. Subsequently, it can contribute to design of regular landscape-ecological monitoring and to more precise setting of sustainable farming interventions. |
Evaluating Biodiversity and Landscape Diversity Dynamics in Non-Forest Ecosystems of the Western Carpathians
Hodnotenie dynamiky biodiverzity a krajinnej diverzity nelesných ekosystémov pohorí Západných Karpát
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2028 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0026/25 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Palaj Andrej PhD. |
Classification of landscape archetypes in Slovakia in the context of socio-economic changes and current climate development
Klasifikácia archetypov krajiny Slovenska v kontexte socio-ekonomických zmien a súčasného vývoja klímy
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2028 |
| Evidence number: | 1/0504/25 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Piscová Veronika PhD. |
| Annotation: | Landscape archetypes represent territories reflecting the interaction of man and landscape features with an emphasis on respecting natural laws and processes. The basic criteria for defining a territory as an archetype are physiognomic features in the form of specific locational conditions, spatial arrangement of landscape elements and patterns in the landscape structure. The significance of the archetypes defined in this way is that they are quasi-model territories serving as reference sites for modelling and planning ecologically optimal land use in various landscape types. Archetypes can be model locations with high efficiency in protecting natural resources, mitigating the effects of surface runoff, eliminating slope gravity processes, also increasing water retention in the landscape. Some aspects of these research were presented and accepted in the international context: Hreško, Kanásová, Petrovič (2010), Hreško, Petrovič, Mišovičová (2015) and Atlas of landscape archetypes (Hreško, Peluš et al. 2015). |
Multi-criteria approach of sustainable multifunctional use of highly vulnerable area determination
Multikriteriálny prístup stanovenia udržateľného polyfunkčného využívania vysoko zraniteľných oblastí
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2024 - 31. 12. 2026 |
| Evidence number: | Vega 2/0015/24 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Barančoková Mária PhD. |
| Annotation: | The principles of sustainable soil use are based on respecting the limiting factors, their rational use. Adhering to these principles of farming in highly vulnerable areas, such as WPZ (water protection zone) Žitný ostrov, is especially important. The aim of the project is to determine landscape-ecological potential, assign zones of optimal multifunctional use – protection and revitalisation of land and its elements, sustainable economic use and non-agricultural land use, cultural and social development of the countryside. As farming companies employing conventional methods of farming are the most significant large-scale polluters, we would like to approach the farming subjects in the given area with a questionnaire survey and find out their way of farming, benefits, disadvantages, current legislative restrictions, recommendations, etc. The assessment will be the gauging of the suitability of land use, processing of the results, and their implementation into regional antennas of the National Rural Network of the Slovak Republic, and other strategic documents. One of the aims of the project is to determine the landscape-ecological potential, differentiate the zones of optimal multifunctional use – protection and revitalisation of landscape and its elements, sustainable economic use and non-agricultural land use, cultural and social development of the countryside. |
Abandonment of agricultural land with different historical uses in selected regions of Slovakia and its impact on the development of soil properties and vegetation
Opustenie poľnohospodárskej pôdy s rôznym historickým využívaním vo vybraných regíónoch Slovenska a jeho dopady na vývoj pôdnych vlastností a vegetácie
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2028 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0074/25 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Kollár Jozef PhD. |
| Annotation: | Abandonment of agricultural land is a global, dynamic and multidimensional problem. To study this phenomenon, the project focuses on 1) changes in selected soil properties and processes, and 2) processes of secondary regressive succession (vegetation development) on abandoned agricultural land. To capture different natural conditions and historical use, attention is focused on selected model areas. In the soil part, the changes and development of basic as well as some special soil characteristics will be studied with an emphasis on hydropedological properties, the vegetation part is focused on the processes and mechanisms of secondary succession. Such landscapes have a considerable area in Slovakia confirming the topicality and relevance of the study of the issue. Due to the nature of the project, the research team includes the staff of ILE SAS and the Department of Soil Sciences, Comenius University. The publication activity shows that they have been devoted to the topic for a long time. |
Development and strengthening of long-term ecological research of selected types of ecosystems.
Rozvoj a posilnenie dlhodobého ekologického výskumu vybraných typov ekosystémov
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2028 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0107/25 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Gajdoš Peter CSc. |
| Annotation: | The project is aimed at the development of long-term ecological research of selected ecosystems in Slovakia as a contribution to building the national part of the distributed European research infrastructure eLTER (eLTER RI). eLTER RI formulated the principles of a holistic, systemic approach to the study of ecosystems through a set of so-called standard observations. The main goal of the project is to achieve a comprehensive study of selected ecosystems by supplementing standard observations, improving instrumentation and introducing new research methods. These improvements will enable us to better, more comprehensively address the eLTER challenges of biodiversity, climate change, eutrophication and chemical pollution. We will pay increased attention to the data management compatible with eLTER standards and data accessibility for use. Part of the project is the continuation of the long-term study of air pollution in Slovakia using bryophytes with a focus on forest and selected non-forest ecosystems. |
Let's bring flowers back to the meadows – changes and ecological restoration of the diversity of rare meadow habitats of European importance
Vráťme kvety na lúky – zmeny a ekologická obnova diverzity vzácnych lúčnych biotopov európskeho významu
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2028 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0062/25 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Ing. Špulerová Jana PhD. |
Research of specific landscape elements of bio-cultural landscape in Slovakia
Výskum špecifických prvkov biokultúrnej krajiny na Slovensku
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0135/22 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Dobrovodská Marta PhD. |
| Annotation: | In a broader sense, it is possible to perceive landscape as mainly bio-cultural and multi-functional, as it constantly adapts to the economic, social, cultural and environmental processes in time and space. The result is formation of bio-cultural systems providing a crucial and effective space for the integration of biological and cultural elements that significantly affect individual bio-cultural systems. The project will focus on development of methodology for detailed interdisciplinary and integrated research of biotic and social-cultural elements and their interrelationships in valuable bio-cultural systems in Slovakia using indicators of biotic and cultural diversity as well as research of extent and structure changes of forms of traditional agrarian relief. Special attention will be paid to identification of change factors (driving forces, global megatrends) of the most valuable bio-cultural systems and determination of selected benefits, which provide for society. |
Allotment gardens as a means of collective socio-ecological memory and an alternative to urban development frameworks of the "Slow City"
Záhradkárske osady ako prostriedok kolektívnej sociálno-ekologickej pamäte a alternatíva mestských rozvojových rámcov pomalého mesta „Slow city“
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2025 - 31. 12. 2028 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0125/25 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Babicová Daniela PhD. |
| Annotation: | In Europe and around the world, the issue of urban agriculture and allotment gardens (AG) has received a great deal of attention in the literature. In Slovakia, there is a lack of detailed and systematic research on ZOs in terms of their history, legislation, sociology and changes in the structure of AGs. There is also a gap in the assessment of AGs in terms of the fulfilment of their ecosystem services. The aim of the present project is to evaluate the ecosystem services of AG on the basis of an analysis of landscape diversity, abiotic, biotic and socio-economic factors and research on the way and intensity of human use of AG. |
Changes in landscape diversity and biodiversity in mountain and alpine areas of the Western Carpathians
Zmeny krajinnej diverzity a biodiverzity v horských a vysokohorských oblastiach Západných Karpát
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025 |
| Evidence number: | 2/0048/22 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Barančok Peter CSc. |
| Annotation: | The Western Carpathians cover a significant part of Slovakia. The country is characterised by mountain and alpine areas with their typical landscape structure with various representation of forest and non-forest habitats. Natural and anthropogenic conditioned factors play a significant role in formation of the landscape character. The processes in the natural environment constantly influence landscape diversity and biodiversity, and nowadays, anthropogenic impacts are more and more significant. The project focuses on the assessment of landscape and biodiversity changes in selected areas affected by the effects of natural and anthropogenous stress factors in different time periods. Attention will be paid to the differentiation of landscape diversity and biodiversity changes that were caused by the natural development of the landscape, global factors impact, and the influence of man in the country. Anthropogenic impact will be assessed from the point of view of man`s historical activity in the country, the way and intensity of the land use, to the present-day impact affecting the overall status of the natural environment. |
Projects total: 24