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Šimonovičová, A., Ferianc, P., Vojtková, H., Pangallo, D., Hanajík, P., Kraková, L., Feketeová, Z., Čerňanský, S., Okeničová, L, Žemberyová, M., Bujdoš, M., Pauditsová, E. 2017. Alkaline Technosol contaminated by former mining activity and its culturable autochthonous microbiota. Chemosphere 171: 89-96. 

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Project VEGA 1/0315/23 (2023-2026) - The role of bioindicators in recognising anthropogenically induced changes in the water-air regime of soils under different land use (principal investigator)

The research of this ongoing project aims to understand the role of selected groups of soil organisms in identifying processes that lead to the degradation of soil cover in variously managed soils. It focuses mainly on studying the relationship between biological and functional physical properties of soil. Looking at soil structure is necessary to understand the effects of natural and anthropogenic environmental changes. Soil structural heterogeneity is crucial in the coexistence of several functional groups of soil organisms that live in it permanently or temporarily. Therefore, emphasis will be placed on determining changes in the characteristics and physiological manifestations of functional groups of organisms in soils with different types of management, especially on the factors that caused these changes. The project's output will be knowledge of how selected groups of soil organisms can be potentially used as bioindicators of soil health.

Project VEGA 1/0712/20 (2020 - 2022) – Acquisition of representative soil data via application of innovative non-destructive methods (investigator)

The project is aimed at innovative methodological procedures for measuring soil properties, with a focus on obtaining the most representative data regards the in-situ conditions. Several soil properties have been quantified for many years using methods, in which the sample is exposed to aggressive solutions, that modify its original properties, and the result of subsequent measurements may not indicate the nature of the soil in conditions in-situ. As part of the project implementation, alternatives to destructive measurements of selected soil properties are sought and tested. We are focusing mainly on the properties of soil organic matter and the characteristics of the clay fraction.

Project VEGA 1/0658/19 (2019 - 2022) – Ecosystem approaches to the evaluation of anthropogenically altered areas according to selected indication groups of species (investigator)

The most frequent sources of negative anthropization influence on the environment in Slovakia include old mining and processing areas and contaminated and qualitatively disadvantaged regions such as salty soils. Such localities have environmental burdens; some represent blackfields (BlF) or brownfields (BrF) and can represent sources of potentially toxic elements. They can be highly acidic or strongly alkaline with higher concentrations of salts. The autochthonous microbiota (AM) of these substrates is often a source of novel species of microorganisms (MO), which have been adapted to these conditions on the microscopic and also very often on the genetic level. The project aims to identify the AM representatives in selected BrF and BlF using biochem. And molecular methods (next-generation sequencing) to determine their physiological properties and to create a geodatabase of these AM representatives with the particular attributes as a basis for identifying the spatial distribution of MO.