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| IMPAWOS - IMPAWOS - Vplyv cudzích a pôvodných drevín na vegetáciu a pôdu: dve strany jednej mince? | |
| IMPAWOS - Impact of alien and native woody plants on vegetation and soil: two sides of the same coin? | |
| Program: | Multilateral - other |
| 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. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2023 - 31.12.2025 |
| DREAM SK-AT - Výskum a manažment rieky Dunaj na Slovensku a v Rakúsku | |
| Danube River Research and Management in Slovakia and Austria | |
| Program: | European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Kenderessy Pavol, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The aims are to establish joint research facilities, to enhance knowledge transfer and to develop innovative monitoring and modelling tools in the SK-AT border region. By enhancing knowledge transfer and capacity building between research bodies and universities, the project will lead to an improved cooperation and exchange of expertise between research and innovation actors using newly constructed and upgraded research infrastructures (RI). New monitoring stations as well as innovative monitoring techniques (e.g. operative boat) and modelling tools concerning hydrodynamics, sediment transport, morphodynamics, ecological parameters and remote sensing technologies in river and wetland science will lead to high quality and comparable data derived at the Danube River in the project reaches (cross border region and adjacent reaches). A guidance document of monitoring and modelling tools will be published and available for the target groups. In SK (VÚVH) the hydraulic engineering laboratory (discharge 1,5 m³/s) will be modernized and upgraded according to the state of the art together with laboratory of geoinformatics and advanced river remote sensing (ILE SAS). In AT a hydraulic engineering laboratory will be constructed with 10 m³/s free flowing discharge. By using these RIs, the scientific basis for improving the Danube river management between Vienna and Bratislava will be developed, being available for target groups working in navigation, flood risk management, ecology, hydropower and drinking water supply. Furthermore, a close exchange of undergraduate and doctoral students and teachers between BOKU, VUVH and ILE SAS will be initiated and the research facilities will be jointly used for common teaching and research activities, also beyond the lifetime of the project. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2016 - 31.12.2022 |
| MICROCLIM - Pohľad z mikroúrovne na alpínsku flóru v podmienkach zmeny klímy. Prepojenie pozorovaní a modelov na zlepšenie nášho chápania budúcnosti európskych vysokohorských rastlín | |
| A micro-scale perspective on alpine floras under climate change. Linking observations and models to improve our understanding of the future of European high mountain plants | |
| Program: | Horizon 2020 |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Kanka Róbert, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project aims to conduct a resurvey of these summits to expand the time period covered to 20 years. The resurvey will follow exactly the same design and protocol as the preceding surveys and shall be realized within one field season in 2022, to keep the regular interval of every 7th year observed so far. Work will be conducted by experienced botanists in the regional teams already involved in the original surveys and subsequent resurveys, as far this is possible. |
| Project webpage: | https://www.mountainresearch.at/microclim/ |
| Duration: | 1.5.2022 - 30.11.2022 |
| ETC BD - Európske tématické centrum pre biologickú diverzitu - 2022 | |
| European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity - 2022 | |
| Program: | Bilateral - other |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc. |
| Annotation: | ETC BD is project of the European Environment Agency (EEA). The ETC BD activities in 2022 is to high extent determined by programme of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its strategic plan; on the EÚ level by the EU Strategy 2020 on biodiversity. These political elements are fully integrated to the EEA multi-annual working programme that determines the ETC BD working plan. The ETC BD activities will be performed in two main areas: Monitoring, reporting and indicators; and Knowledge for ecosystem-based management. The first area consists of four parts: Dataflows and data analysis - Biodiversity, nature and terrestrial policies; Streamlining data monitoring and reporting, and data acquisition; Biodiversity monitoring and progress indicators (EU and global); and Protected areas. The second area has five parts: Assessing ecosystem condition, drivers of change and pressures on ecosystems; Restoration needs and targets; Solutions and restoration measures for ecosystems impacted by agriculture; Solutions and restoration measures for ecosystems impacted by forestry; and BISE - Biodiversity Information System for Europe. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2022 - 31.1.2022 |
| ETC BD - Európske tématické centrum pre biologickú diverzitu - 2019-2021 | |
| European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity - 2019-2021 | |
| Program: | Bilateral - other |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc. |
| Annotation: | ETC BD is a project of the European Environmental Agency. EEA‐ETC/BD work over the period 2019‐2021 will be largely framed on global level by the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Strategic Plan for 2011‐2020 and at EU level by the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy. These policy elements are fully integrated in the EEA Multi‐annual Work Programme 2014‐2018 extended to 2020, which determine the ETC BD work plan. The ETC BD activities will be done in 5 work packages. WP1 (Monitoring, data, management and information systems) addresses the organisation of dataflows and the management of core datasets which will either directly feed the policy process or/and underpin the production of indicators and assessments. WP2 (Indicators) mainly addresses work to be done by ETC/BD as part of the SEBI collaborative process (Streamlined European Biodiversity Indicators). WP3 (Assessments) over the next period will be largely framed by targets 1 and 2 of the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy. The evaluation of progress towards target 1 and its supporting actions will make use of information reported by Member States under the Nature Directives. A major piece of EEA‐ETC/BD work will be the preparation of the State of Nature report, to be published by end 2020. WP4 (Networking and policy support) covers networking with national authorities and experts under policy processes, whether at EU, pan‐European or global levels. WP5 is focused to the ETC BD management, capacity‐building and cross‐ETC cooperation. |
| Project webpage: | https://bd.eionet.europa.eu/ |
| Duration: | 1.1.2019 - 31.12.2021 |
National
| Zmeny krajinnej diverzity a biodiverzity v horských a vysokohorských oblastiach Západných Karpát | |
| Changes in landscape diversity and biodiversity in mountain and alpine areas of the Western Carpathians | |
| 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. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2022 - 31.12.2025 |
| Krajinnoekologické aspekty zelenej a modrej infraštruktúry pri tvorbe optimálneho priestorového základu ekologicky stabilných plôch v urbanizovanej krajine | |
| Landscape-ecological aspects of green and blue infrastructure in creation of an optimal spatial basis for ecologically stable areas in urban landscape. | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Moyzeová Milena, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Topical theme of the current research both in our country and in the world is the issue of green (G) and blue (B) infrastructures. Their task is to support and conserve landscape biodiversity and diversity, polyfunctional land use, protection of landscape elements and conservation of important landscape elements. The aim of the project is to prepare the assessment methodology of G and B infrastructures in a settled environment by interdisciplinary scientific research; to produce a specialized methodical tool applicable to planning practices on local level. Apart from the assessment of green and blue infrastructure the partial aim will be the assessment of grey infrastructure associated with the development of settlements and communications as part of comprehensive assessment for resulting proposals. Protection of natural and semi-natural and man-made ecosystems is compulsory for conservation of bio production, environmental and socio-economic functions and general life forms and conditions in urban landscape. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2021 - 31.12.2024 |
| Vývoj pôdnych vlastností a vegetácie na bývalej poľnohospodárskej pôde | |
| Evolution of soil properties and vegetation on the former agricultural land | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Kollár Jozef, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project is focused on the evolution of soil properties and vegetation in the abandoned agricultural land |
| Duration: | 1.1.2021 - 31.12.2024 |
| ENVIRO PLUS - Podpora výskumno-vývojových aktivít jedinečného riešiteľského tímu | |
| Supporting the R&D activities of a unique research team | |
| Program: | Európsky fond regionálneho rozvoja (EFRR) |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Kalivoda Henrik, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The main objective of the project is to support research and development activities of the unique research team of non-business research organizations ILE SAS and Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra and the company ESPRIT Ltd focused on the knowledge area of environmental engineering. The project topics are focused on product lines in the domain of Healthy Food and Environment:1) Systems for the protection of agricultural and forest soils against degradation2) Systems and technologies for preventing the negative impacts of climate change in agriculture and forestry. |
| Project webpage: | https://www.uke.sav.sk/veda-a-vyskum/projekty/strukturalne-fondy-2/enviro-plus/ |
| Duration: | 27.9.2022 - 31.12.2023 |
| Ex-ante hodnotenie a SEA pre Strategický plán SPP 2021-2027 | |
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| Program: | Vedecko-technické projekty |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Miklósová Viktória, PhD. |
| Duration: | 1.6.2019 - 31.12.2022 |
| Historické a súčasné zmeny krajinnej diverzity a biodiverzity vplyvom pôsobenia prírodných a antropogénnych faktorov | |
| Historical and present changes in the landscape diversity and biodiversity caused by natural and anthropogenic factors | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Barančok Peter, CSc. |
| Annotation: | In the natural environment, there are constantly running processes that affect the character of the landscape or intensity of natural environmental factors and form the overall state of the environment. These processes naturally influence and change landscape diversity and biodiversity. Man intervenes into these natural procsses in a significant way and anthropogenic impacts on the landscape and biodiversity nowadays outweigh the impacts resulting from the natural development of the areas. The project focuses on the assessment of landscape and biodiversity changes in selected areas affected by the effects of natural and anthropogenic stress factors in a 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 ? since the first settlement, through changes in the way and intensity of the landscape use. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2018 - 31.12.2021 |
| Zmeny pôdnych vlastností a sekundárna sukcesia po zalesnení bývalých poľnohospodárskych pôd | |
| Changes in soil properties and secondary succession following afforestation of former agricultural land | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Kollár Jozef, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project is focused on the ecology and soils of secondary forests established after land use changes in the various Slovak region differed by natural conditions and land use type. Studied areas will include especially Malé Karpaty Mts (afforested former vineyards and pastures, non-carbonate bedrock) and Považský Inovec Mts. (afforested pastures, carbonate bedrock). The project has an interdisciplinary character. Vegetation part will be focused on the detailed phytocoenological and floristic characteristics of the studied forests, which will serve as a database for other actívities, such as state, progress and direction of secondary succession, ecological and socio-economic evaluation of particular vegetation etc. Soil research will include basic and some special soil properties, which will serve to evaluate the impact of historical and current land use on the soil. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2018 - 31.12.2020 |
| Rýchlostná cesta R1 - Primerané posúdenie vplyvov na územia Natura 2000 | |
| Speed Route R1 - Appropriate Impact Assessment on the territories of the Natura 2000 | |
| Program: | Other projects |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Barančok Peter, CSc. |
| Annotation: | The project is divided into three separate sections - sections of the speed route R1: 1. Slovenská Ľupča - Korytnica, border of the region, 2. Korytnica, border of the region - Ružomberok, south and 3. Ružomberok, south - Crossroad D1. The aim of the project is implementation of detailed research of flora, fauna and habitats in the affected area and to prepare documentation for an appropriate assessment of the impacts of the proposed activity on the territories of the Natura 2000 in terms of the Methodology for evaluation of the significance of the effects of plans and projects on the territories of the Natura 2000 in the Slovak Republic. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2017 - 30.6.2019 |
| Ekologická optimalizácia využívania zosuvných území vo vybraných častiach flyšového pásma, so zreteľom na ich tradičné obhospodarovanie | |
| Ecological optimization of the utilization of landslide areas in selected parts of the flysch zone in regard to the traditional farming | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Barančoková Mária, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The occurrence of landslides in the flysch zone of the Western Carpathians has conditioned the utilization of landscape from the beginning of the settlement. Places that have not been affected by the construction processeswere used according to the needs of the agricultural population. Each intervention had an impact on thedevelopment of coenosis thereby creating specific habitats with high variability. This was so not only because ofnatural specificities of individual localities, but also due to diversity of management habits and skills in dispersed settlements (called "kopanice"). Slope deformations represent geofactor, which significantly affects the quality of the environment.The project aims to develop a methodology of assessment of landslide areas in flysch environment and their use in traditional farming, the application of this methodology in selected areas and suggestions for ecological optimization of utilization. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2015 - 31.12.2018 |