Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Effects of Anticoagulant Rodenticides and Farm Habitat Structure on Avian Communities in Livestock Farms

Rat control using anticoagulant rodenticides on livestock farms is a widely applied practice worldwide. Birds can be exposed to rodenticides through direct ingestion or secondary poisoning, resulting in mortality or sublethal health effects. While impacts on raptors and owls are...

On-line analysis of N 2 O isotopic composition during biological nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment to disentangle production and reduction processes

Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) is a potent greenhouse gas, and emissions from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) represent a significant and highly variable source. Understanding the dynamics in microbial pathways of N 2 O formation and reduction during biological nitrogen removal is ess...

Quantifying niche overlap and transgression in allopolyploid hybrids: Case study of Sorbus subgenus Aria

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Apomixis, the formation of seeds without recombination, facilitates adaptation and persistence under environmental change. By preserving hybrid genotypes over long time periods, apomixis may conserve adaptive trait combinations from parental niche margins. We...

Grassland destruction causes shifts in plant traits that persist during recovery

Old-growth grasslands assemble over millennia and support high biodiversity and many ecosystem services, but continue to undergo widespread destruction for production of crops, timber, and minerals. How biodiversity recovers after grassland destruction and the functional conseque...

Widespread thermophilization but weak link to climate warming in Europe’s summit plant communities

Abstract Recent changes in alpine vegetation are often attributed to climate warming, particularly community composition shifts towards more warmth-associated species, or thermophilization. Here we assess the link between thermophilization and warming across 53 European mountain...