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Mobilizácia databáz siete Emerald na Západnom Balkáne ako príprava na biogegrafické semináre
Mobilisation of Emerald Network databases in the Western Balkans in preparation of biogeographical seminars
Program: Other
Project leader: RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc.
Annotation: The six Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia have ratified the Bern Convention and consequently have to select Emerald sites and to forward complete Standard Data Form for every protected area. Setting-up the Emerald Network at national level is considered as one of the main tools for the Contracting Parties to comply with their obligations under the Bern Convention. The overall project objectives of the project are to support and to facilitate the mobilization of SDF databases followed by submission to the Bern Convention via the Reportnet’s Central Data Repository by Western Balkan countries. In hands-on workshops for each Western Balkan Country, representatives of national or regional nature conservation administration as well as scientific are working together, supported by the project team, to mobilize and update the Emerald database. The project should improve also taxonomic consistency and consistency in interpretation of habitat types in reporting between the Resolution N° 6 (1998) of the Bern Convention and the annexes of the Nature Directives (Habitats Directive and Birds Directive.
Duration: 22.12.2021 - 30.6.2022
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
Emerald Balkan - Posilnenie účasti krajín západného Balkánu na práci Európskej environmentálnej agentúry 2020- 2021
Strengthening the participation of the Western Balkans in the work of the European Environment Agency 2020- 2021
Program: Other
Project leader: RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc.
Annotation: The six Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia have ratified the Bern Convention and consequently have to select Emerald sites and to forward complete Standard Data Form for every protected area. Setting-up the Emerald Network at national level is considered as one of the main tools for the Contracting Parties to comply with their obligations under the Bern Convention.The overall project objectives of the project are to support and to facilitate the mobilization of SDF databases followed by submission to the Bern Convention via the Reportnet’s Central Data Repository by Western Balkan countries. In hands-on workshops for each Western Balkan Country, representatives of national or regional nature conservation administration as well as scientific are working together, supported by the project team, to mobilize and update the Emerald database. The project should improve also taxonomic consistency and consistency in interpretation of habitat types in reporting between the Resolution N° 6 (1998) of the Bern Convention and the annexes of the Nature Directives (Habitats Directive and Birds Directive.
Duration: 2.12.2021 - 31.12.2021
CLIMASTEPPE - Riešenia pre klimaticky vhodné poľnohospodárstvo v suchých stepných oblastiach Ruska
Solutions for climate-smart land use in the dry steppes of Russia
Program: ERANET
Project leader: Mgr. Lieskovský Juraj, PhD.
Annotation: The Russian dry steppes is a region where the negative impacts of climate change are heavily projected. Also, it is a region where adoption of climate-smart agriculture may allow reducing the negative impacts of climate change, cut the Greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and result in defragmentation of steppes. After 1991 economy restructuring resulted in massive agricultural land abandonment and the restoration of steppes. Recent plans about recultivation of steppes underscore the importance to evaluate the trade-offs between agricultural expansion and ecosystem services. The ultimate goal of the project is to assess the ability of the Russian dry steppes to mitigate negative projections of climate change by adopting climate-smart agriculture.
Duration: 1.4.2018 - 31.3.2021
ENI-SEIS II - Podpora pre implementáciu regionálneho a národného plánu ENI-SEIS II East 2019 v podpore podávania správ pre sieť Emerald
Support for the implementation of the ENI-SEIS II East 2019 Regional and National Work Plan in assisting reporting to Emerald Network
Program: Other
Project leader: RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc.
Annotation: The ENI-SEIS East project aims at helping partner countries gradually develop and extend their biodiversity data e.g. on habitats, species and internationally designated areas in line with the SEIS principles in terms of institutional cooperation, content and infrastructure. The overall objective of the proposed activities and deliverables is to strengthen capacities of national authorities to further improve and share the data on internationally designated areas with quality assurance/quality control standards comparable with European Environmental Agency (EEA) and the World database on protected areas (WDPA). Developing the relational database helps partner countries to meet also international reporting obligations and requirements, for instance, to the Bern Convention, the Convention of Biological Diversity and its Aichi targets, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) etc. Given that, the specific objectives of the project are:• strengthening of the national authorities’ capacity in collecting biodiversity data and information for the reporting on the conservation status of species and habitats of European importance to the Bern Convention in 2019• supporting the designation cycle of new proposed areas to the Emerald network by providing sufficiency assessments to enable the countries to meet the Aichi strategic goal C target 11 and SDG-15To achieve these objectives, one reporting workshop and two biogeographical seminars will be organised. The reporting workshop will offer the possibility for the national experts to share their experiences and challenges at the regional level, both in content reporting and in using the reporting tool. The biogeographical seminars will be focused to scientific assessment of the sufficiency of the proposed and candidate Emerald sites to protect a) birds in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, and 2) habitats and non-bird species in Belarus, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The project should also ensure the helpdesk - the assistance to the country teams related to the reporting on species and habitats conservation status, making use of the Resolution 8 reporting tool.
Duration: 1.4.2019 - 31.12.2019
eLTER - Európska infraštruktúra pre dlhodobý ekosystémový a socioekologický výskum - eLTER
European Long-Term Ecosystem and Socio-Ecological Research Infrastructure — eLTER
Program: Horizon 2020
Project leader: RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc.
Annotation: The overall aim of the eLTER project is to advance the European network of Long-Term Ecosystem Research sites and socio-ecological research platforms to provide highest quality services for multiple use of a distributed research infrastructure.eLTER ́s major objectives and methods are to:(1) identify user needs for the research infrastructure in relation to major societal challenges through consultations with scientific, policy and business stakeholders and horizon scanning;(2) streamline the design of a cost-efficient pan-European network, able to address multiple ecosystem research issues, in collaboration with related global and European research infrastructures, e.g. LifeWatch;(3) develop the organisational framework for data integration and enable virtual access to the LTER data by enabling data publishing through distributed Data Nodes and by providing access to data on key research challenges through a Data Integration Platform;(4) foster the societal relevance, usability and multiple use of information, data and services through new partnerships with the providers of remotely sensed data, analytical services and scenario testing models, and via the adoption of new measurement technologies.The LTER-Europe network and the European Critical Zone community will collaborate to achieve these goals. 162 sites in 22 countries will provide data on long-term trends in environmental change, some reaching back 100 years. Test cases using these data will address a range of environmental and social issues to push innovation in network level services and steer conceptual developments. The envisaged “LTER Infrastructure” will enable European-scale investigation of major ecosystems and socio-ecological systems, and support knowledge-based decision making at multiple levels.
Project webpage: http://www.lter-europe.net/projects/eLTER
Duration: 1.6.2015 - 31.5.2019
ETC BD - Európske tematické centrum pre biologickú diverzitu
European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity
Program: Bilateral - other
Project leader: RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc.
Annotation: The European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD) is established to support the work of EEA in the field of biodiversity for the period 2014-18 and the implementation of the EU Action Plan on Biodiversity and related global strategies. Key priority areas included in the work plans established between the EEA and the European Commission include:• Support implementation of existing EU legislation relating to nature (Habitats and Birds Directives), including links to other key EU legislation concerning the sea and water, rationalization of the data collection, reporting and sharing of experience and knowledge;• Support for assessment and reporting in connection with the global- and the EU biodiversity strategies, while promoting the implementation of data and information aspects, in particular the mapping and assessment of the health of ecosystems and their services in Europe;• Work on specific tasks relating to the EU\'s biodiversity strategy in sectors that are not covered by other ETCs. These include agriculture and forestry. The cooperation with the JRC, DG AGRI, and other pan-European and global partners in these issues is needed.
Project webpage: http://bd.eionet.europa.eu/
Duration: 1.1.2014 - 31.12.2018
Landscape Europe
Landscape Europe
Program: Multilateral - other
Project leader: Mgr. Bezák Peter, PhD.
Annotation: LANDSCAPE EUROPE is an interdisciplinary network of national research institutes with expertise in landscape assessment, planning and management at the interface of policy implementation, education and state-of-the-art science in support of sustainable landscapes
Project webpage: http://www.landscape-europe.net
Duration: 1.1.2011 - 31.12.2018
ENI_SEIS - Podpora pre implementáciu regionálneho a národného plánu ENI-SEIS II East 2017-2018 v podpore podávania správ pre sieť Emerald
Support for the implementation of the ENI-SEIS II East 2017-2018 Regional and National Work Plan in assisting reporting to Emerald Network
Program: Other
Project leader: RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc.
Annotation: The project is aimed to provide scientific and technical support to the six countries of Eastern Europe (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) to strengthen their environmental monitoring and information management on the basis of the SEIS principles. As far as biodiversity is concerned, this implies support for the implementation of the Emerald Network under the Berne Convention. The project includes following activities:- Regional workshops on reporting requirements. Two workshops are expected with focus to reporting requirements based on international standards and developing of distributional maps for species and habitats; - Biogeographical seminars on sufficiency assessment of proposed and candidate Emerald sites. Two seminars are foreseen: 1) Seminar to assess sufficiency of the proposed and candidate sites to protect species (except birds) and habitats in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia; 2) Seminar to assess sufficiency of the proposed and candidate Emerald sites to protect bird species in Belarus, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine;- Helpdesk support to the ENI East countries in using the Standard Data Form Tool for reporting the data to the EEA CDR;- Stremalining between Bern Convention (Emerald) and the EU Nature Directives in reporting- Harmonisation of methodologies for production of regionally comparable indicator on protected areas – implementing the indicator on protected areas.
Project webpage: https://www.coe.int/en/web/bern-convention/emerald-network-reference-portal
Duration: 1.7.2017 - 30.11.2018
OpenNESS - Funkčnosť prírodných kapitálov a ekologických služieb: od konceptu k reálnej aplikácii (OpenNESS)
Operationalisation of Natural Capital and EcoSystem Services: From Concepts to Real-world Applications (OpenNESS)
Program: FP7
Project leader: Prof. RNDr. Izakovičová Zita, PhD.
Annotation: The project is aimed at the evaluation of current state of research in the topic land management and definition of the needs for the next period. The main sub-objectives of the project are: 1) Identify social challenges related to land, especially land use, the management of land and soil protection, land use and utilisation of landscape resources, 2) Evaluate approaches to integrated land management, to evaluate the current strengths and weaknesses, define proposals to improve the situation, 3) Identify the need for research in the area land use and land management, 4) Identify the main groups of "stakeholders" and create a network of all groups "stakeholders" in the field, 5) Ensure the transfer of knowledge in practice and contribute to improving policy EU and research in this area.
Duration: 1.12.2012 - 31.5.2017
Syntéza štúdií vplyvu inštitucionálnych zmien a zmien krajinnej pokrývky a využitia krajiny na uhlík, biodiverzitu a poľnohospodárstvo po rozpade Sovietskeho Zväzu
Synthesis of Studies on Institutional Change and LCLUC Effects on Carbon, Biodiversity, and Agriculture After the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Program: Multilateral - other
Project leader: RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc.
Annotation: Major institutional changes occurred throughout Eastern Europe and European Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the expansion of the EU in 2004 and \'07, resulting resulted in substantial land cover and land use change. NASA-funded case studies led by members of our proposal team have highlighted the magnitude of these land changes. However, these case studies have not been synthesized, and we lack comprehensive datasets of land change, analysis of its economic and institutional drivers, and assessments of its environmental effects. Our first goal is to utilize recent advances in remote sensing science to a) map wall-to-wall decadal land change from Landsat data across Eastern Europe and European Russia, and b) conduct in-depth analyses of higher temporal resolution land change for dense time stacks of selected footprints. Our prior case studies highlighted that land changes were highly heterogeneous in space suggesting that economies and institutions were important drivers of land change. However, how economic, policy, and institutional changes - and their legacies – affected land change is not clear. Our second goal is to understand the economic, policy and institutional drivers of land change across Eastern Europe and European Russia. Similarly, case studies by our team and others provide strong evidence for substantial effects of land change on agriculture, forestry, carbon pools and fluxes, and biodiversity. The additional remote sensing analyses outlined above would allow us to take the research on these effects to a new level, and make comprehensive assessments across Eastern Europe. Our third goal is to assess the effects of land change on agriculture, forestry, carbon, and biodiversity across Eastern Europe and European Russia. The main outcome will be a synthesis of prior research on land change in Eastern Europe. Our prior research puts us in a unique position to provide three important outcomes: a) consistent maps of land change across Eastern Europe; b) analyses of the policy, economic and institutional drivers of the land changes that occurred; and c) assessments of land change effects on agriculture, forestry, carbon, and biodiversity. Land use is the principal driver of global environmental change. Twenty years after the Soviet Union, and ten years after the start of NEESPI and of numerous research projects in the region, we now have a unique opportunity to synthesize findings and extract more general patterns. We propose to conduct such a synthesis and make a major contribution to our understanding of human-natural systems, and land use science.
Duration: 1.1.2013 - 31.12.2016
200 rokov zmien využívania krajiny a krajinnej pokrývky a ich hnacie sily v Karpatskej kotline
200 years of land use and land cover changes and their driving forces in the Carpathian Basin
Program: Multilateral - other
Project leader: Mgr. Lieskovský Juraj, PhD.
Annotation: The project will utilize historical topographic maps and modern satellite imagery to characterize land use patterns in the Carpathian region, to document agricultural land use change and to understand the major drivers for this change during the last 200 years. Historical materials will include maps dating back to 1840s, starting with the First Military Mapping of the Astro-Hungarian Empire, followed by maps of the Second Military Mapping, maps of period between two World Wars, collectivization and socialism – up to 70s. Satellite data (Landsat) will be utilized (starting 1979) will be used for socialist period, final socialist years, post-socialist period and EU expansion. All maps will be analyzed for the change in (1) agricultural extent, with focus on cropland, grasslands and abandoned land (2) agricultural intensity with focus on crop variability and reforestation of abandoned croplands (3) agricultural fragmentation with focus on field size. The study will also address agricultural land use transitions caused due to shifts in institutional, socio-economic and societal conditions.
Duration: 1.1.2012 - 31.12.2015
FC2014 - Forum Carpaticum 2014
Forum Carpaticum 2014
Program: International Visegrad Fund (IVF)
Project leader: RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc.
Annotation: The project focuses on the organization of the 3rd International Conference “ Forum Carpaticum” (FC) in 2014 which promotes international research cooperation in the Carpathian region. FC is a platform for the exchange of experience and information between subjects in fields of science, policy and practice that active contribute to the sustainable development of the Carpathians. The activities of FC include the development of research aimed at enhancing the specific needs of the region, strengthening capacities and promoting research in the Carpathians and strengthening the links between science and practice.
Duration: 1.1.2014 - 31.1.2015
Back to future - Skúmanie historických hnacích síl zmien využitia krajiny, environmentálnej histórie a ich vplyvov na biodiverzitu a služby ekosystémov v Európe (Back to future)
Exploring historical drivers of land use and environmental history and their impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services in Europe (Back to future)
Program: Multilateral - other
Project leader: RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc.
Annotation: The project aims in use of the knowledge of past conditions and assessment of changes for better understanding of the present environmental conditions. This historical perspective is helpful when predicting how the environment at a location may change in the future, given certain scenarios. Rather than addressing a single specific research question, the project is designed as and an umbrella project under which a set of sub-projects is running. Although these run separately, they share some features in common. They utilise historical sources of information dating back at least 20 years and compare these with present day information, in order to better understand such things as past environmental conditions, past human utilisation of land, rates of change in certain parameters, how the past explains present environmental observations. They involve one or more partners of the ALTER-Net network, bring together young and old generations of researchers, ‘natural’ and ‘social’ scientists and generate an output - either published paper or new datasets, accessible photographic resources and educational resources. Each sub-project team should produce a report describing the study and the results, and explaining how the results could be applied to (a) further studies of the site and (b) similar sites / habitats / landscapes.
Duration: 1.10.2013 - 31.12.2014
ETC/BD -13 - Európske tématické centrum pre biologickú diverzitu - ETC/BD -13
European Topic Centre for Biological Diversity - ETC/BD - 13
Program: Multilateral - other
Project leader: Ing. Oszlányi Július, CSc.
Duration: 1.1.2013 - 31.12.2013
ETC/BD 12 - Európske tématické centrum pre biologickú diverzitu-ETC/BD 12
European Topic Centre fo Biological Diversity- ETC/BD 12
Program: Multilateral - other
Project leader: Ing. Oszlányi Július, CSc.
Annotation: The aim of the project is the following (2009-2013): Assessment of number and distribution of the chosen plant species, compilation of the Red List(book for europeaa plant and animal species, compilation of list of important species, compilation of list of important habitats).
Duration: 1.1.2012 - 31.12.2012
FC2012 - Forum Carpaticum 2012
Forum Carpaticum 2012
Program: Multilateral - other
Project leader: RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc.
Annotation: The project supported organisation of the international conference Forum Carpaticum 2012 (FC2012) with the main theme “From Data to Knowledge, from Knowledge to Action” (Stará Lesná, 30.5.-2.6.2012). The FC2012 organised Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the network Science for the Carpathians Initiative (S4C). The S4C aims to integrate different fields of expertise to generate theoretical and practical knowledge for the Carpathian mountain region. The objectives of the Forum Carpaticum conference are: To link research and practice related to coupled human and natural systems in mountain regions; to scientifically support actions leading towards sustainability in the Carpathian region; to increase the visibility of the Carpathian region in the global change research agendas. The Forum Carpaticum 2012 reviewed current research in the Carpathian region, presented examples of knowledge generation and its successful application to practice and policy, and fostered networking and international cooperation within and beyond Carpathian countries.
Project webpage: www.forumcarpaticum.org
Duration: 1.1.2012 - 31.7.2012
EBONE - Európska sieť pre štúdium biodiverzity: návrh plánu pre integrovaný observačný systém v priestore a čase
European Biodiversity Observation Network: Design of a Plane for an Integrated Biodiversity Observing System in Space and Time
Program: FP7
Project leader: RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc.
Annotation: The EBONE project is designed to develop a fully integrated system based on key biodiversity indicators, implemented within an institutional framework operating at the European level. EBONE will make the links between databases, which have currently remained isolated in order to increase their overall effectiveness. A link will be made between the methods, data and observation sites available in different countries and regions. A link will also be made with various ongoing projects and available databases, as well as observation and monitoring systems. This will lead to a cost effective procedure for biodiversity monitoring by applying the most efficient indicators into a balanced sampling programme. One of the important steps is to carry out tests on the data from LTER sites in relation to analysis of nation-wide habitat monitoring programmes. EBONE is a partnership of sixteen universities and research institutes in Europe, Israel and South Africa.
Project webpage: www.ebone.wur.nl
Duration: 1.2.2008 - 31.1.2012
Výskum a zachovanie biodiverzity v historických štruktúrach poľnohospodárskej krajiny Slovenska
Research and maintaining of biodiversity in historical structures of agricultural landscape of Slovakia
Program: Bilateral - other
Project leader: RNDr. Dobrovodská Marta, PhD.
Annotation: The historical structures of agricultural landscape (HSAL) represent mosaics of small-scale arable fields and permanent agricultural cultivations which were not affected by the process of agricultural collectivization. They have irreplaceable ecological, cultural and historical value. They are a result of a long term, mutual relationship between man and the landscape. As main sources of local biodiversity, they are linked mainly to balks, margins of cross fields tracks, original meadows and pastures and after collectivization abandoned grass-grown former arable fields. These areas are now becoming rare and thus highly valuable in the European space. Since these areas are not at present a subject of special protection, there’s a high risk that in the near future, due to abandonment and subsequent forest succession and urban pressure, their decline or even irreversible loss is probable. Our project aims to resolve this problem by carrying out a thorough inventory and typologization of HSAL on the territory of whole Slovakia, coupled with detailed interdisciplinary research (research of vegetation, animals, ecological conditions and human society) in 3 representative pilot areas (Svätý Jur town, Liptovská Teplička village Hriňová town) and implementation of an proposed Strategy for protection and management of HSAL in these territories as well.
Duration: 10.9.2009 - 30.4.2011
SCERES - Scenáre vývoja reprezentatívnych ekosystémov krajiny Slovenska v kontexte globálnych zmien
Development scenarios of representative landscape ecosystems in the Slovak republic considering global changes
Program: Bilateral - other
Project leader: Prof. RNDr. Izakovičová Zita, PhD.
Annotation: The project is aimed at the elaboration of the new approach to nature protection, biodiversity and landscape stability. It proposes to vault over the component approach to nature protection based purely on the protection of life forms and its substitution by complex landscape-ecological approach based on the protection of nature and life by conservation and ensurance of sustainable use of all representative landscape systems of Slovakia in the context of global changes. The target of the subproject is to elaborate the methodological procedure for creation and evaluation of representative landscape ecosystems in order to elaborate the effective strategy of biodiversity protection and proposal of the management of sustainable use of representative landscape ecosystems (landscape types) of Slovakia (RLES) that will ensure the regular care of landscape in view of the present global changes in the landscape. A part of the subproject and an aim is to include „main actors“ into the process of protection and management of RLES, to increase their awareness with respect to the values of representative landscape types, their tasks and changes. The realization of the subproject is the concrete contribution to the implementation of the European Landscape Convention (European Council, 2000, no. 176).
Project webpage: www.ukesav.sk
Duration: 1.10.2008 - 30.10.2010
SENSOR - Hodnotenie trvalo udržateľných vplyvov: Nástroje pre environmentálne, sociálne a ekonomické vplyvy multifunkčného využitia krajiny v Európskych regiónoch
Sustainability Impact Assessment: Tools for Environmetal,Social and Economic Effects of Multifunctional Land Use in European Regions
Program: FP6
Project leader: Ing. Oszlányi Július, CSc.
Annotation: Institute of landscape ecology SAS has participated on 3 modules, M 3.2., M 6.1. and M 6.2. Within the module M 3.2., ILE SAS participated on definition of criteria for selection of key sustainability indicators, their importance and relevance for assessing the sustainability on regional level and definition of links between key indicators and land-use functions. These indicators were then assessed using sustainability thresholds/limits approach. This approach was based on definition of qualitative/quantitative threshold values for selected environmental indicators. Within the module 6.1., activities included elaboration of sustainability assessment plan for SIAT (Sustainability Impact Assessment Tool) testing region of High Tatras. The results were summed up into a data form containing definition of main sustainability problems, stakeholders and data resources. The M 6.2. activities included collection, standardisation and harmonisation of various social, economical and environmental statistical data for the High Tatras testing region. Data were collected according to M6 Data management framework and uploaded to common georeferenced database system.
Project webpage: www.sensor-ip.org
Duration: 1.12.2004 - 31.5.2009
ALTER-Net - Výskumná sieť pre dlhodobý výskum biodiverzity, ekosystému a vedomia
A Long-Term Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Awarness Research Network
Program: FP6
Project leader: Ing. Oszlányi Július, CSc.
Annotation: Institute of Landscape Ecology Slovak Academy of Sciences participated in collaboration with other 23 partners from 16 European countries on the work of all 14 workpackages. In the year 2008, staff of ILE SAS has been worked on broad spectrum of tasks of the project ALTER-Net and attended actively all important workshops. Work was focused on 4th and 5th Reporting Period of the project. The most important results and outcomes: establishing of the Slovak LTER Committee, implementation of Slovak LTER sites, preparation of publication „LTER European book“, completing of InfoBase database, reinvestigation of task “Multi-site experiment”, preparation of database 2008 and analysis of data; preparation of Slovak LTSER platform.
Project webpage: www.alter-net.info
Duration: 1.4.2004 - 31.3.2009

National

Analýzy a hodnotenia environmentálnej histórie vybraných typov krajiny Slovenska od mladšieho praveku po súčasnosť
Analysis and evaluations of the environmental history of selected types of Slovak landscape from the early prehistory to the present
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Piscová Veronika, PhD.
Annotation: By using natural resources, ecosystem services and activities, man directly or indirectly affects the naturalenvironment and the quality of its components, within a time and space framework. The extent and intensity ofhuman influence on the landscape has been changing over the centuries, depending on current period. Toidentify the degree of human influence on the landscape, it is essential to get know the original landscape, whichhas not been significantly affected by man. As such, a landscape no longer exists in the Central Europe; it needsto be scientifically reconstructed in some way. The aim of the project is to reconstruct the landscape, in modelareas representing selected types of the Slovak landscape, in several periods of historical and archaeologicalpast and to evaluate the consequences of human activities in them. It is important to analyse the relationshipbetween man and his environment over the time.
Duration: 1.1.2023 - 31.12.2026
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
URANOS - Údajová a vedomostná podpora pre systémy rozhodovania a strategického plánovania v oblasti adaptácie poľnohospodárskej krajiny na klimatické zmeny a minimalizáciu degradácie poľnohospodárskych pôd
Scientific support of climate change adaptation in agriculture and mitigation of soil degradation.
Program: EU Structural Funds Research & Development
Project leader: Mgr. Halabuk Andrej, PhD.
Duration: 3.4.2020 - 30.6.2023
Ekologické analýzy akulturácie krajiny Slovenska od mladšieho praveku dodnes
Ecological Analyses of Landscape Acculturation in Slovakia since Early Prehistory until Today
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Piscová Veronika, PhD.
Annotation: Human impact on landscape of Slovakia is manifested more markedly since the Neolithic period (New StoneAge). Acculturation processes such as mutual adoption and merging different cultures and process of social andcultural changes accompany people throughout their history and reflect on the environment (Škvarna, 2007). Thehuman impact on the landscape may appear at first positive, but it may have a negative influence on the natureitself and finally on people as well (Erten, Van Deb Berg, Weissing 2007). For this reason, it is important toanalyze the impact of landscape changes on people and also on natural ecosystems. The aim of this project is toreconstruct the landscape in several periods of historical and archaeological past and to evaluate theconsequences of human activity in the model areas. An important role will be played by the confrontation of theevolution of settlement and vegetation changes in the territories in the same chronological sections.
Duration: 1.1.2019 - 31.12.2022
Demetra - Hodnotenie novodobých zmien a vývojových trendov poľnohospodárskej krajiny Slovenska (Demetra)
Assessment of recent changes and trends in agricultural landscape of Slovakia (Demetra)
Program: SRDA
Project leader: RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc.
Annotation: The project responds to insufficiently known consequences of the current rapid and extensive changes of agricultural landscape (AL). The aim is to evaluate the extent and distribution of the recent changes in the AL use in Slovakia after r. 1990, their trends and impacts on main functions and depending ecosystem services. The project is based on the DPSIR concept that evaluates environmental context of human activities in the form of a causal chain, following the causes, conditions and consequences. The main original features of the project is a comprehensive approach with the analysis and evaluation of natural and socio-economic factors, with emphasis of internationally established indicators use, analysis of trends and formulation of possible future scenarios, interconnection of multiple spatial levels, the combination of analytical procedures with empirical knowledge and stakeholder involvement.The project is planned for 48 months (07/2018-06/2022). It will develop special methods, procedures and indicators to be applied at national level and in local case studies in all major types of AL. In addition to scientific contribution, the project will also propose measures, tools and procedures for decision-making and planning of the sustainable use of AL.
Duration: 1.8.2018 - 30.6.2022
Zmeny poľnohospodárskej krajiny Slovenska vplyvom politík Európskej Únie
Changes in Slovak Landscape Driven by European Union Agricultural Policy
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Lieskovský Juraj, PhD.
Annotation: The project is focused on identification and evaluation of changes in agricultural landscape (AL), which were after 2004 affected by the EU legislation in fields of agriculture, water protection and nature conservation. It is based on analysis of the EU policies as drivers of changes in AL. It will study types and intensity of use of AL on regional and local levels. The project combines methods of remote sensing (RS) and field research. RS will be used for timely obtaining information on AL. Also will be developed and tested innovative approaches and methods with use of new satellite sensors. In local scale will be studied impact of changes in use in AL on biodiversity. For biodiversity study were selected indication groups of vegetation, invertebrates (spiders, dragonflies) and vertebrates (amphibians, birds). Studied will be sites from which exist data from previous research, wetlands and newly evolved biotopes in AL. The final phase will be synthesis of current state and changes in AL and biodiversity.
Duration: 1.1.2016 - 31.12.2019
Diverzita poľnohospodárskej krajiny a jej ekosystémové služby
Diversity of agricultural landscape and its ecosystem services
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Ing. Špulerová Jana, PhD.
Annotation: The project was focused on the evaluation of diversity of agricultural landscape and its ecosystem services in different types of representative landscapes of Slovakia. Attention was paid to extensively cultivated farmland and traditional agricultural landscapes, which are characterized by higher diversity of landscape pattern and by the presence of semi natural habitats that significantly contribute to the provision of ecological functions in thelandscape and provide multifunctional ecosystem services to society. The most important results of the project are contained in two publication: the article of Lieskovsky et al. (2015) devoted to changes in landscape diversity and abandonment, and a monograph dedicated to the traditional agricultural landscape (TAL) (Špulerová et al., 2017). The monograph present diversity of TAL in Slovakia as a type of agricultural landscape with high landscape diversity. The second part of the monograph points to the importance of the ecosystem services assessment and benefits of these diversified landscape structures that provide to society. Result shows, that TAL provide more ecosystem services by their diversified patterns. The study of Lieskovský et al. is highly cited (22 WOS citation) and was aimed to analyse the driving forces behind the accelerated abandonment of traditional agricultural landscapes. The study showed that abandonment occurs most intensively on steep slopes and on less fertile soils. The distance from settlements and the financial profit are the other drivers of abandonment.References:LIESKOVSKÝ, Juraj - BEZÁK, Peter - ŠPULEROVÁ, Jana - LIESKOVSKÝ, Tibor - KOLEDA, Peter - DOBROVODSKÁ, Marta - BÜRGI, Matthias - GIMMI, Urs. The abandonment of traditional agricultural landscape in Slovakia - analysis of extent and driving forces. In Journal of Rural Studies, 2015, vol. 37, p. 75-84. ŠPULEROVÁ, Jana - ŠTEFUNKOVÁ, Dagmar - DOBROVODSKÁ, Marta - IZAKOVIČOVÁ, Zita - KENDERESSY, Pavol - VLACHOVIČOVÁ, Miriam - LIESKOVSKÝ, Juraj - PISCOVÁ, Veronika - PETROVIČ, František - KANKA, Róbert - BAČA, Andrej - BARANČOKOVÁ, Mária - BEZÁK, Peter - BEZÁKOVÁ, Magdaléna - BOLTIŽIAR, Martin - MOJSES, Matej - DUBCOVÁ, Magdaléna - GAJDOŠ, Peter - GERHÁTOVÁ, Katarína - IZSÓFF, Martin - KALIVODA, Henrik - MIKLÓSOVÁ, Viktória - DRÁBOVÁ, Monika - ŠATALOVÁ, Barbora - KRIŠTÍN, Anton - DANKANINOVÁ, Lenka - KALIVODOVÁ, Eva - MAJZLAN, Oto - MIHÁL, Ivan - STAŠIOV, Slavomír - ŠOLOMEKOVÁ, Tatiana - AMBROS, Michal - BALÁŽ, Ivan - HALABUK, Andrej. Historické štruktúry poľnohospodárskej krajiny Slovenska : monografia získala ocenenie Zlatý Kosák od ministerky pôdohospodárstva a rozvoja vidieka p. Gabriely Matečnej na Agrokomplexe 2017 v Nitre [Historical structures of agricultural landscape of Slovakia. Bratislava: Veda, 2017. 144 s.
Duration: 1.1.2014 - 31.12.2017
Dlhodobé zmeny vybraných parametrov pôd a ich ekosystémových služieb v závislosti od rôznych foriem využitia krajiny.
Long-term changes of selected soil properties and their ecosystem services depending on the different forms and intensity of agricultural land cultivation.
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Kenderessy Pavol, PhD.
Annotation: The project aims to assess the changes of selected soil properties depending on the different forms and intensity of agricultural land cultivation. The research will take place in localities with the character of traditional agricultural landscapes (the assumption of extensive farming) and for comparison in places with the same conditions but with a different, conventionally farmed land (intensive management after the collectivization). Changes in soil properties will be evaluated based on comparison of results of filed survey and analysis of historical data from the database of the Complex Soil Survey (VÚPOP). The results will be interpreted in relation to selected soil functions. These functions will be defined in terms of their abilities to provide selected ecosystem services based on CICES classification (The Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services).
Duration: 1.1.2015 - 31.12.2017
EcoServ CL - Hodnotenie funkcií a služieb ekosystémov kultúrnej krajiny
Evaluation of ecosystem functions and services of the cultural landscape
Program: SRDA
Project leader: RNDr. Kanka Róbert, PhD.
Annotation: The main objective of the project is a comprehensive assessment of ecosystem services on the base of selected REPGES units and its detailed research and testing of appropriate ondicators in selected model areas for various types of cultural landscapes based on the current methodology (Haines-Young, R., Potschin, M. 2012).Sub-objectives are:1. Compile a comprehensive overview of ecosystem services in selected representative ecosystems / cultural landscape types of Slovakia and define the potential capacity of the existing ecosystem services2. Identify the most relevant services in selected representative ecosystems of the cultural landscape of Slovakia in terms of their usefulness for evaluation purposes and to test the importance of these services to the local community3. Design and test indicators of ecosystem services in selected representative geoecosystems / cultural landscape types of Slovakia4. To design an effective system for evaluating ecosystem services that explicitly highlights the value and visibility of natural resources and the need for sustainable useThe project will deal with the current problems, which were summarized in a pan-European mapping and evaluation of ecosystem services (Maes et al., 2011)
Duration: 1.10.2013 - 30.9.2017
Hodnotenie stavu a dynamiky biotopov s využitím modelovania a diaľkového prieskumu Zeme
Assessment of status and dynamics of habitats using combination of modelling and remote sensing
Program: VEGA
Project leader: RNDr. Halada Ľuboš, CSc.
Annotation: The main objective of the project is to develop consistent approaches and methods for assessment of status and dynamics of habitats using combination of gradient analysis of ecological data and remote sensing. Proposed methods will be thoroughly tested through case studies at different scales in order to demonstrate their possibilities in habitat mapping, detection of changes, identification of trends and assessment of the response of habitats to land use change and climate anomalies.
Duration: 1.1.2013 - 31.12.2016
Obnova a budovanie technickej infraštruktúry výskumu a vývoja Ústavu krajinnej ekológie Slovenskej akadémie vied
Renovation and construction of technical infrastructure for research and development of the Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Program: EU Structural Funds Research & Development
Project leader: Ing. Mojses Matej, PhD.
Annotation: The project aims to modernize and complete technical infrastructure of the Institute of Landscape Ecology - the branch in Nitra for research in the landscape ecology, landscape planning, landscape management and the long-term ecological research of ecosystems. The project has two major themes: 1) building and upgrading of local infrastructure supporting research and development in information technologies based on GIS technology to support research activities in the field of landscape ecology, through the server and mobile GIS application equipment and a comprehensive information system for the purpose of environmental planning and landscape management, 2) building and upgrade of the infrastructure for ecosystem research. Objectives of the project:1) Development of a system, consisting of technical infrastructure, standard and specialized software and spatial database, enabling a new quality of the landscape research for needs of the landscape planning and land management2) Addition of the equipment of institute in such way that will support and expand the possibilities of the ecosystem research focusing on the ecosystems of mountain meadows and forest ecosystems, including the impact of global change.
Duration: 1.11.2012 - 31.5.2015
Výskum, vývoj a aplikácia pokročilých metód geoinformatiky, diaľkového prieskumu Zeme (DPZ) a metód paralelného počítačového modelovania s využitím pokročilých hardvérových a softvérových nástrojov
Research, development and application of advanced methods of geoinformatics, remote sensing and methods of parallel computation based on advanced hardware and software instruments, which enable parallel processing. Application of advanced sophisticated m
Program: EU Structural Funds Research & Development
Project leader: Mgr. Halabuk Andrej, PhD.
Annotation: Strategic aims of the Project:· support of research and development in the small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)· support of advanced applied research with outputs competitive in international level· support of cooperation between enterprises (SMEs) and academy and university research· development of innovative (high-tech ABmerit) small enterprise (=fulfilled global priority axes of Operational Programme Research and Development)· upraising of prestige of the research due to excellent financial and social appreciation of excellently performed work, increasing of the interest of talented young workers in research and development (=fulfilled global priority axes of Operational Programme Research and Development) Specific aims of the Project: · establishing of new higher level of innovative ability of the SME (ABmerit) in the field of high-tech, namely in the field of development and application of advanced methods of geoinformatics (remote sensing) and methods of parallel computational modeling.
Duration: 1.6.2010 - 30.5.2014
Významnosť a úžitky ekosystémov v historických štruktúrach poľnohospodárskej krajiny
Significance and ecosystem services of historical structures of agricultural landscapes
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Ing. Špulerová Jana, PhD.
Annotation: Significance of natural, semi-natural and cultural ecosystems in agricultural landscape for biodiversity protection is multiplex. The unique islands of species-rich plant and animal communities are represented by historicalstructures of agricultural landscape (HSAL), that play an important role in water retention and the prevention of soil erosion – both important with respect to climatic changes. Many ecosystem services and function are provided by these ecosystems, which bring benefits for society. They have irreplaceable ecological, cultural andhistorical value.Due to deficient ecosystem valuation as well as scarce scientific data documenting significance and services of these habitats in agrarian landscape, decline or even irreversible loss of biodiversity linked to such specificbiotopes will be the result. The project is aimed to bring new quantitative and qualitative scientific knowledge, which can be applied in decision processes or for implementation of international convention
Duration: 1.1.2011 - 31.12.2013
Stanovenie účelových vlastností krajiny ako podklad pre krajinnoekologický výskum
Identification of purposive landscape features as the basis of landscape ecological research
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Prof. RNDr. Hrnčiarová Tatiana, CSc.
Annotation: The aim of the project is to elaborate the existing and new methodological procedures of selected appropriate/functional landscape features on the basis of interpretation of abiotic, biotic and socio-economic indices. Purposeful landscape features give information about he conditions and mood of land use, possible reactions of the landscape on external impulses or sensitivity of the landscape on the changes caused by human activities etc. Some areas react to environmental changes more sensitively while primary landscape features gain different character. A component of the project is the verification of interpretational procedure of creation of purposeful landscape features in selected model areas in agricultural, urbanized and forest/recreational landscape or in the whole area of Slovakia. Appropriate features can express the measure of functioning of natural processes in the landscape, degree of landscape changes etc. The process of landscape-ecological interpretation is a significant criterion in the decision-making processes applied in the proposal of ecological landscape use.
Duration: 1.1.2010 - 31.12.2012
Vplyv experimentálne zvýšenej teploty a zvýšenej depozície dusíka na zraniteľné ekosystémy alpínskych lúk
Effect of experimental warming and nitrogen deposition on sensitive alpine meadow ecosystem
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Mgr. Halabuk Andrej, PhD.
Annotation: In the proposed project, we focus on the effect of warming and nitrogen (N) deposition on carbon (C)sequestration, vegetation and N leaching in the model ecosystem of alpine meadows that are very sensitive tomentioned global change. Warming can exert a complex effect on microbial activity, nutrient availability and netecosystem production (NEP). Increased N deposition can further contribute to a complex interaction amongecosystem processes leading to many discrepancies in ecosystem responses and uncertain contribution to Csequestration. We would like to enrich the knowledge of warming and N deposition effects on key components ofNEP including net primary production, litter decomposition rates, soil respiration, N mineralization, N availability,plant N uptake as well as individual plant species response and impact on vegetation structure. The studiedeffects will be simulated using open top chambers and N fertilization in the field conditions.
Duration: 1.1.2009 - 31.12.2012
Hodnotenie zmien diverzity krajiny
Evaluation of landscape diversity changes
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Prof. RNDr. Hrnčiarová Tatiana, CSc.
Duration: 1.1.2007 - 1.12.2009
Zmena biodiverzity a štruktúry lesného ekosystému za 30 rokov: výskumná plocha Báb
Changes in the biodiversity asnd the structure of the forest ecosystem after 30 years: The research site of BAB
Program: VEGA
Project leader: RNDr. Gajdoš Peter, CSc.
Annotation: The restoration of the ecosystem research in research site Báb represents the theme of the proposed project, aiming in resumption of research that was performed in this site in the framework of Interantional Biological Programme (IBP, 1967-1974) and Man and Biosphere Programme (MaB). Identification and evaluation of biodiversity, structure and ecological processes changes after more than 30 years is the main objective of the project. To the partial target belong: revitalisation of the research site and ecosystem research; re-establishment of research teams; detection of changes in selected parameters during more than 30 years; preparation of partial syntheses; and development of concept of complex long-term ecological research in this ILTER site. The research will be based on the functional ecology with accent to structure-functional and quantitatiev-ecological approach. Following fields will be studied primary production; animals and the secondary production; distribution of elements and substances in the ecosystem; soil complex and microbes; structure and dynamics of plant populations; landscape structure. The project should bring a new knowledge in all scientific disciplines included in the thematic fields.
Duration: 1.1.2007 - 1.12.2009
SENSOR - Hodnotenie trvalo udržateľných vplyvov: Nástroje pre environmentálne, sociálne a ekonomické vplyvy multifunkčného využitia krajiny v Európskych regiónoch
Sustainability Impact Assessment: Tools for Environmetal,Social and Economic Effects of Multifunctional Land Use in European Regions
Program: SRDA
Project leader: Ing. Oszlányi Július, CSc.
Annotation: Institute of landscape ecology SAS has participated on 3 modules, M 3.2., M 6.1. and M 6.2. Within the module M 3.2., ILE SAS participated on definition of criteria for selection of key sustainability indicators, their importance and relevance for assessing the sustainability on regional level and definition of links between key indicators and land-use functions. These indicators were then assessed using sustainability thresholds/limits approach. This approach was based on definition of qualitative/quantitative threshold values for selected environmental indicators. Within the module 6.1., activities included elaboration of sustainability assessment plan for SIAT (Sustainability Impact Assessment Tool) testing region of High Tatras. The results were summed up into a data form containing definition of main sustainability problems, stakeholders and data resources. The M 6.2. activities included collection, standardisation and harmonisation of various social, economical and environmental statistical data for the High Tatras testing region. Data were collected according to M6 Data management framework and uploaded to common georeferenced database system.
Project webpage: www.sensor-ip.org
Duration: 1.12.2004 - 31.5.2009
ALTER-Net - Výskumná sieť pre dlhodobý výskum biodiverzity, ekosystému a vedomia
A Long-Term Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Awarness Research Network
Program: SRDA
Project leader: Ing. Oszlányi Július, CSc.
Annotation: Institute of Landscape Ecology Slovak Academy of Sciences participated in collaboration with other 23 partners from 16 European countries on the work of all 14 workpackages. In the year 2008, staff of ILE SAS has been worked on broad spectrum of tasks of the project ALTER-Net and attended actively all important workshops. Work was focused on 4th and 5th Reporting Period of the project. The most important results and outcomes: establishing of the Slovak LTER Committee, implementation of Slovak LTER sites, preparation of publication „LTER European book“, completing of InfoBase database, reinvestigation of task “Multi-site experiment”, preparation of database 2008 and analysis of data; preparation of Slovak LTSER platform.
Project webpage: www.alter-net.info
Duration: 1.4.2004 - 31.3.2009
Miestny územný systém ekologickej stability k.ú. Šalov pre potreby pozemkových úprav
Local territorial system of ecological stability of the Šalov cadastre for land arrangement project
Program: Other projects
Project leader: RNDr. Moyzeová Milena, PhD.
Duration: 1.3.2007 - 22.5.2008
Miestny územný systém ekologickej stability k.ú. Klasov pre potreby pozemkových úprav
Local territorial system of ecological stability of the Klasov cadastre for land arrangement project
Program: Other projects
Project leader: RNDr. Moyzeová Milena, PhD.
Duration: 1.3.2007 - 10.1.2008
Hodnotenie poľnohospodárskej krajiny v tranzitívnej ekonomike
Evaluation of rural agricultural landscape in the transitive economics
Program: SRDA
Project leader: Prof. RNDr. Izakovičová Zita, PhD.
Duration: 1.1.2005 - 1.12.2007