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Šimonovičová, A., Schwarzkopfová, K., Jurkovič, Ľ., Ferianc, P., Vojtková, H., Remenár, M., Kraková, L., Pangallo, D., Hiller, E., Čerňanský, S. 2016: Autochthonous Microbiota in Arsenic-Bearing Technosols from Zemianske Kostolany (Slovakia) and Its Potential for Bioleaching and Biovolatilization of Arsenic. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 227, 9, 336, 1-17.

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

Hiller, E., Tatarková, V., Šimonovičová, A., Bartaľ, M., 2012: Sorption, desorption, and degradation of (4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)acetic acid in representative soils of the Danubian lowland. Chemosphere 87, 5, 437-444.

Šimonovičová, A., Kraková, L., Pangallo, D., Majorošová, M., Piecková, E., Bodoriková, S., Dörnhöferová, M., 2015: Fungi on mummified human remains and in the indoor air in the Kuffner family crypt in Sládkovičovo (Slovakia). International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 99, 157-164.

Šimonovičová, A., Vojtková, H., Nosalj, S., Piecková, E., Švehláková, H., Kraková, L., Drahovská, H., Stalmachová, B., Kučová, K., Pangallo, D., 2021: Aspergillus niger environmental isolates and their specific diversity through metabolite profiling. Front. Microbiol. 12:658010. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.658010.

Šimonovičová, A., Takáčová, A., Šimkovic, I., Nosalj, S., 2021: Experimental treatment of hazardous ash waste by microbial consortium Aspergillus niger and Chlorella sp.: Decrease of the Ni content and identification of adsorption sites by Fourier-transfor infrared spectroscopy. Front. Microbiol. 12:792987. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.792987.

Takáčová, A., Bajuszová, M., Šimonovičová, A., Nosalj, S., 2022: Biocoagulation of dried algae Chlorella sp. and pellets of Aspergillus niger in decontamination process of wastewater, as a presumed source of biofuel. J. Fungi 2022, 8, 1282. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof 8121282.

Nosalj, S., Hrabovský, A., Labuda, R., Kollár, J., Šimonovičová, A., 2024: Biological and physico-chemical properties of the soil in an acidified environment influenced by previous mining activities at the Šobov locality (SLOVAKIA). Biologia 79, 6, 1639-1652.

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Takáčová, A., Bajuszová, M., Šimonovičová, A., Nosalj, S., 2022: Biocoagulation of dried algae Chlorella sp. and pellets of Aspergillus niger in decontamination process of wastewater, as a presumed source of biofuel. J. Fungi 2022, 8, 1282. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof 8121282.

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Šimonovičová, A., Schwarzkopfová, K., Jurkovič, Ľ., Ferianc, P., Vojtková, H., Remenár, M., Kraková, L., Pangallo, D., Hiller, E., Čerňanský, S. 2016: Autochthonous Microbiota in Arsenic-Bearing Technosols from Zemianske Kostolany (Slovakia) and Its Potential for Bioleaching and Biovolatilization of Arsenic. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 227, 9, 336, 1-17.

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

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project VEGA 1/0194/21 (2021 - 2024): Ecological assessment of revitalized acidified area (principal investigator)

The landscape in the Banská Štiavnica surroundings has been marked by intense mining activity (MA) in the past, which is reflected in specific conditions for living organisms. Besides visual changes in the landscape, MA have led to changes in the quality of abiotic components of the environment (soil, water), which form the

conditions for the biotic components. One of the negative impacts of MA in the area is the acidification of the environment. Increased acidification is associated with the mobility of toxic elements causing contamination of the area, which results in the land degradation and the extinction of habitats and ecol. relationships. One of the measures to improve the quality of the environment is the application of revitalization measures. The research challenge is therefore to evaluate and interpret data on the soil microbiota, to determine selected ecological parameters and to interpret what changes in the environment occurred after the application of revitalization measures in the study area.

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

The most frequent sources of negative anthropization influences of the environment in Slovakia include old mining and processing areas and contaminated and qualitatively disadvantaged areas such as salty soils. Such localities include environmental burdens and some of them represent blackfields (BlF) or brownlields (BrF) and can represent sources of potentially toxic elements, they can be extremely acidic or strongly alkaline with higher concentrations of salts. 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 aim of the project is 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 identification of spatial distribution of MO.

project VEGA 1/0315/23 (2023-2026.):

The role of bioindicators in the identification of antropo – induced changes in the water-air regime in soils under different uses. (co-principal investigator)

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.