Litavský, J., Stašiov, S., Svitok, M., Michalková, E., Majzlan, O., Žarnovičan, H., Fedor, P. 2018: Epigean communities of harvestmen (Opiliones) in Pannonian Basin floodplain forests: an interaction with environmental parameters, Biologia, 73(8): 753–763.

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Litavský, J., Majzlan, O., Stašiov, S., Svitok, M., Fedor, P. 2021: The associations between ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) communities and environmental condition in floodplain forests in the Pannonian Basin. European Journal of Entomology. 118, 14–23.

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Stašiov, S., Litavský, J., Majzlan, O., Svitok, M., Fedor, P. 2021: Influence of Selected Environmental Parameters on Rove Beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Communities in Central European Floodplain Forests. Wetlands, 41:115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-021-01496-5

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Prokop, P., Litavský, J., Provazník, Z. 2024: Female Phalangium opilio use fellatio to compensate sexual avoidance. Scientific Reports 14: 25586. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-77209-9

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Litavský, J., Majzlan, O., Langraf, V., Žarnovičan, H. 2024: Influence of habitat management and selected environmental parameters on the ground-living communities of harvestmen (Opiliones) in the historical park in Rusovce (Slovakia). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196:1056. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-024-13233-6

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Litavský, J., Majzlan, O., Langraf, V., Žarnovičan, H. 2024: Influence of habitat management and selected environmental parameters on the ground-living communities of harvestmen (Opiliones) in the historical park in Rusovce (Slovakia). Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196:1056. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-024-13233-6

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Prokop, P., Litavský, J., Provazník, Z. 2024: Female Phalangium opilio use fellatio to compensate sexual avoidance. Scientific Reports 14: 25586. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-77209-9

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Litavský, J., Majzlan, O., Stašiov, S., Svitok, M., Fedor, P. 2021: The associations between ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) communities and environmental condition in floodplain forests in the Pannonian Basin. European Journal of Entomology. 118, 14–23.

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Stašiov, S., Litavský, J., Majzlan, O., Svitok, M., Fedor, P. 2021: Influence of Selected Environmental Parameters on Rove Beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Communities in Central European Floodplain Forests. Wetlands, 41:115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-021-01496-5

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Gajdoš, P., Majzlan, O., David, S., Purgat, P., Litavský, J. 2023: Assemblages of ground-living spiders (Araneae) and harvestmen (Opiliones) of the recultivated old chemical waste dump in Vrakuňa (Bratislava, Slovakia). Biologia 78, 149–162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-022-01247-9

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Výstup / Publication:

Litavský, J., Stašiov, S., Svitok, M., Michalková, E., Majzlan, O., Žarnovičan, H., Fedor, P. 2018: Epigean communities of harvestmen (Opiliones) in Pannonian Basin floodplain forests: an interaction with environmental parameters. In BIOLOGIA, Vol. 73: 753-763. Published: AUG 2018 DOI: 10.2478/s11756-018-0084-8

Ohlas / Citation:

Ivanič Porhajašová, J., Petrovičová, K., Mlyneková, E., Ernst, D., Babošová, M., Noskovič, J., Krumpálová Z. 2019: Impact of soil management on biodiversity of epigeic groups. In APPLIED ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, Vol. 17: 13897-13908. Published: 2019 (IF = 0.712, 2019) DOI: 10.15666/aeer/1706_1389713908

Výstup / Publication:

Litavský, J., Majzlan, O., Stašiov, S., Svitok, M., Fedor, P. 2021: The associations between ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) communities and environmental condition in floodplain forests in the Pannonian Basin. European Journal of Entomology. 118, 14–23. In EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY, Vol. 118: 14-23. Published: 2021 DOI: 10.14411/eje.2021.002

Ohlas / Citation:

Sklodowski, J. 2021: Responses of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) to tree retention groups of various sizes support leaving them in clear-cut areas. In FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, Vol. ‏ 493. Article Number: 119261. Published: ‏ AUG 1 2021 (IF = 3.17. 2019) DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119261

Výstup / Publication:

Fedor, P., Sigmund, J., Zvaríková, M., Masarovič, R., Štefánik, M., Krumpál, M., Litavský, J., Prokop, P. 2018: The Most Northern Record of the Alien Composite Thrips Microcephalothrips abdominalis in Europe - Short Communication. In PLANT PROTECTION SCIENCE, Vol. 54: 43-47, Published: 2018 DOI: 10.17221/42/2017-PPS

Ohlas / Citation:

Popov, A., Trencheva, K., Trenchev, G. 2020: Composite thrips, Microcephalothrips abdominalis, a new alien species for Bulgarian fauna. In PLANT PROTECTION SCIENCE, Vol. 56: 132-134. Published: 2020, (IF = 1.13, 2019) DOI: 10.17221/94/2019-PPS

Stašiov, S., Litavský, J., Majzlan, O., Svitok, M., Fedor, P. 2021: Influence of Selected Environmental Parameters on Rove Beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Communities in Central European Floodplain Forests. In Wetlands, Vol. 41:115. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-021-01496-5

Ohlas / Citation:

Gilgado, J.D., Rusterholz, H-P., Braschler, B., Zimmermann, S., Chittaro, Y., Baur, B. 2022: Six groups of ground-dwelling arthropods show different diversity responses along elevational gradients in the Swiss Alps. In PLOS ONE Vol. 17(7): e0271831. Published: 2022 (IF = 2.9, 2023) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271831 

Gajdoš, P., Majzlan, O., David, S., Purgat, P., Litavský, J. 2023: Assemblages of ground-living spiders (Araneae) and harvestmen (Opiliones) of the recultivated old chemical waste dump in Vrakuňa (Bratislava, Slovakia). In Biologia Vol. 78, 149–162. DOI: 10.1007/s11756-022-01247-9

Ohlas / Citation:

Esyunin, S., Agafonova, O., Ruchin, A., Semishin, G., Esin, M., Artaev, O. 2023: Spider fauna (Arachnida, Araneae) in Mordovia State Nature Reserve and National Park "Smolny" (Russia). In BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL Vol. 11: e105979. Published: 2023 (IF = 1.0, 2023) DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e105979

APVV (2025 - 2028): Biological Corridors and Arthropods Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes [VV-MVP-24-0207] - principal Investigator. Biological corridors in agricultural landscapes offer multifaceted ecosystem services, enhance biodiversity, support agricultural productivity, improv the stability of biotopes, serve as refuges for various organisms, and contribute to environmental sustainability. Integrating these corridors into agricultural management practices fosters more resilient and sustainable agroecosystems. This project focuses on the study of biological corridors in intensively utilized agricultural landscapes, comparing the large-scale monoculture fields of southwestern Slovakia, which have a long-established system of biological corridors, with the small-scale diversified fields of northern Serbia, where the concept of ecological connectivity is less established. The main aim of this project is to study the relationship between the diversity and dynamics of selected bioindicatively significant groups of arthropods (harvestmen, spiders, mites, ground beetles, ants and thrips) in differently managed corridors and a wide range of autecological, synecological and environmental parameters. Considering that the agricultural landscape is heavily interwoven with linear elements (transport infrastructure), facilitating the spread of non-native species, the project will also assess the potential entry of these non-native species and their possible impacts on the diversity and stability of natural and agrarian ecosystems. The study of the behavioural and ecological aspects of competition between non-native and native species is therefore an integral part of the project. Based on these analyses, management measures will be proposed to preserve arthropod diversity in agrarian systems through the implementation of suitable biological corridors. The project will improve understanding of the importance of biological corridors in supporting arthropod diversity in agricultural landscapes and will provide new insights into targeted conservation and management practices for sustainable agroecosystems.

2019 - 2022: Proactivities for biodiversity in the regions of Slovakia [ITMS 2014+: 310011N463] - co-investigator. The aim of the project is the implementation of activities aimed at involving the general public in the active protection of nature and biodiversity within micro-regions, raising environmental awareness and finding solutions in a proactive way. The main target group of the project is the general public. We want to provide relevant information on environmental issues, threat factors of its components, but also the possibilities of nature and landscape protection, green infrastructure, strengthening biodiversity and improving the overall quality of the environment in individual regions of Slovakia.

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KEGA (2020 - 2023): Arachnology – university textbook and web platform [020UK-4/2020] - co-investigator. The goal of the project is to prepare and publish modern university book and textbook to be used at practical excercises, which will be scientific and educational base of Arachnology lectures, and extending resource for students of biology of other science and education faculties which provide education in fields of systematic /system biology, ecology and biodiversity at all level of university educations.

VEGA (2021 - 2024): Ecological specifics of pollination and dispersion of seeds in urban environment [1/0007/21] - co-investigator. The presented project is focused on the research of questions (1) whether the opening of plant flowers can serve as a bioindication of abundance and diversity of pollinators in urban and wildlife, (2) dispersion of diaspores by ants in urban and rural environments and in wildlife and (3) species very attractive to pollinators for flowering plant communities.

APVV (2020 - 2025): Ecology of sexual selection. [APVV-20-0081] - co-investigator. Models of sexual selection primarily involve Fisher's runaway sexual selection, selection for good genes, handicap principle and sexual conflict. These processes are, however, significantly influenced by global environmental change which cause direct and indirect types of environmental pollution. In this project, we use a well -known model spider species Pisaura mirabilis in which males exhibit conspicuous form of nuptial feeding (male transfer of nutrient to the female) during courtship to test whether environmental change influences evolution of mating behavior. Specifically, we will investigate both direct effects (i.e., heavy metals accumulation) and indirect effects (i.e., decreased prey availability) of environmental pollution on sexual selection. Furthermore, we deal evolutionary questions regarding physiological costs of nuptial feeding to males. Results of this investigation will have broad implications for the evolution of sexual selection in animals under environmental change.

VEGA (2023 - 2026): Road network as a linear element for the migration and spreading of organisms in the context of ongoing climate change. VEGA [1/0255/23] – co-investigator. The project focusses on the impact of road networks and traffic on the surrounding biota, with particular emphasis on higher vascular plants and the entomofauna. The project will significantly contribute to the current knowledge of the biota around roads and help establish the scientific field of road ecology in the awareness of both academic and public life.

VEGA (2025-2028): The function of pollinators in the reproductive strategies of selected weed species [1/0211/25] - co-investigator. Agricultural production is significantly influenced by the competition of cultivated plants with weeds. However, the presence of weeds in fields also has its positive aspects, because they create a food and reproductive niche for many species of pollinators. On the contrary, many species of entomophilous weeds are dependent on pollinators, i.e. these are complicated and relatively small interactions, the functioning of which is less known in agroecosystems. In our project, we focus on the interactions of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) with pollinators and predators in both natural and agricultural environments. We specifically address the issues of regulation of bud flowering in relation to flower pollination, the influence of florivory and agrarian landscape on the reproductive success of the bud, its ability to recognize other plant species as well as genetically related and unrelated individuals, heliotropism, and the adaptive significance of wrapping around neighboring plants. Our results will contribute to more effective management of this weed, as well as to general knowledge about plant behavior and intelligence.