Eva Bulánková

• Comenius University Bratislava

Springs are perceived by human society as essential sources of drinking water, but on the other hand they represent peculiar and vulnerable ecosystems. They differ from other watercourses in the relatively high stability of their physicochemical conditions. As a result, springs represent ecosystems with an insular character, usually inhabited by sp...

Publikácia „Determinačný kurz pre hydrobiológov. Vybrané čeľade vodných dvojkrídlovcov (Diptera).“ bola vytvorená pre potreby hydrobiológov podieľajúcich sa na monitoringu kvality vody, ktorý v zmysle Smernice 2000/60/ES (RSV, DIRECTIVE 2000/60/EC)prebieha vo väčšine krajín Európskej únie.Vodné dvojkrídlovce predstavujú veľmi veľkú skupinu vodného...

From the family Athericidae, only three species (Atherix ibis, Ibisia marginata, Atrichops crassipes) are widespread in Central and Western Europe. Although predatory larvae of these species are an important component of many benthic communities, little is known about their distribution and ecological preferences. Aiming to fill these gaps, the dis...

Kega project: "Life and water" was focused on the development of new modern educational materials for Biology teachers. It offers the newest knowledge and materials for teachers teaching the thematic unit of Biology: Life and water. Among the most important outcomes of our project we consider the following: - managing of workshop Running waters fo...

Karst springs are considered for specific habitats in many aspects. They are characterized by a relatively stable thermal regime and high chemical stability during the year. For these specific characteristics they are considered a refugee for many rare species of fauna and flora. The aim of this study was to characterize taxonomic composition and d...

Karst springs are considered for specific habitats in many aspects. They are characterized by a relatively stable thermal regime and high chemical stability during the year. For these specific characteristics they are considered a refugee for many rare species of fauna and flora. The aim of this study was to characterize taxonomic composition and d...

Attempting to help reduce the costs of bioassessment of aquatic habitats, the aim of this study was to estimate how particular substrate types influence the ecological quality evaluation based on a multihabitat scheme proposed by the AQEM/STAR consortium. Samples of macroinvertebrates were taken from the Stupavský potok brook, a small, 4th order cal...

Hrdlicová E & Bulánková E, 2017. Ecological evaluation of monitoring sites at upper Myjava River. The upper part of the Myjava River is being undergone strong changes since 2006. Above the monitoring locality Myjava NAD (rkm 72.6) was a water reservoir rebuilt to a dry polder in 2006 and the stagnat water has changed into realined channel of the My...

The effect of longitudinal zonation patterns and macroinvertebrate responses to changes in habitat characteristics have been given a lot of attention. But studies of changes in macroinvertebrate assemblages along small upland undisturbed watercourses are still lacking. The aim of the study is to analyse variability in macroinvertebrate communities...

We analysed the influence of environmental stress (mainly deforestation of catchment due to windstorm) on taxonomic structure as well as composition of functional groups (FG) based on zonation preferences and feeding types of caddisfly species in 11 streams (12 sites) with various environmental conditions situated in the High Tatra Mts, Slovakia. U...

In the Czech part of the Labe River and the lower part of the Vltava River, we examined if the benthic macroinvertebrate composition changed from 1996 to 2005 due to expected improvements in water quality resulting from socioeconomic changes in the Czech Republic since the 1990s. Special attention was given to rare and alien species. The four biolo...

Till now, altogether 50 species of dragonflies have been found in the Danube and its arms in Slovakia. One of the most important indicator species is Gomphus (Stylurus) flavipes, listed as strictly protected by Appendix II of the Bern Convention. Large population of Gomphus flavipes was found in the Malý Dunaj (Small Danube), in the area called Dan...

In this study we describe how the river morphology of seven High Tatras streams has been influenced in different ways by a severe windstorm that occurred in November 2004. A control site situated in an undisturbed area is compared with six sites in windstorm damaged areas. In 2009–2010 River Habitat Survey (RHS) was used to assess the character of...

Hydrobiological research of high mountain streams in the High Tatras was carried out in 2009–2010. We evaluated the influence of windstorm on caddisfly assemblages. To assess the influence of windstorm we focused on river morphology using the RHS method and evaluation of TAM, TOM and BOM (CPOM, FPOM, UFPOM) amount in seven streams. Site 1 was a con...

Hydrobiological research of high mountain streams in the High Tatras was carried out in 2009–2010. We evaluated the influence of windstorm on caddisfly assemblages. To assess the influence of windstorm we focused on river morphology using the RHS method and evaluation of TAM, TOM and BOM (CPOM, FPOM, UFPOM) amount in seven streams. Site 1 was a con...

In this study we describe how the river morphology of seven High Tatras streams has been influenced in different ways by a severe windstorm that occurred in November 2004. A control site situated in an undisturbed area is compared with six sites in windstorm damaged areas. In 2009–2010 River Habitat Survey (RHS) was used to assess the character of...

River Habitat Survey and monitoring of Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) were carried out at 19 localities of the Turiec River basin and Hron River in 2008–2009. The otter spraints and sprainting spots were sampled along 600 m stretches of the streams. Bank and channel features were recorded at 10 spot-checks and also continuously along whole the 500 m...

We achieved all six of our original objectives and can draw the following conclusions about the High Tatras: • near-natural streams in most valleys are confined to steep headwater reaches; • ‘rapid’ stream-flow channels are all very similar, dominated by boulders; • vegetated mid-channel and side bars occur at a higher frequency than in other simil...

The paper deals with distribution of the species of the family Athericidae: Atherix ibis (Fabricus, 1798), Ibisia marginata (Fabricius, 1781) and Atrichops crassipes Meigen, 1820 in Slovakia. Larvae were collected in 2001–2011, there were examined 1606 individuals in total. Species Atherix ibis was found out at 102 sites, species Ibisia marginata a...

: River Habitat Survey and monitoring of Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) were carried out at 19 localities of the Turiec River basin and Hron River in 2008–2009. The otter spraints and sprainting spots were sampled along 600 m stretches of the streams. Bank and channel features were recorded at 10 spot-checks and also continuously along whole the 500...

: The work deals with assessment of the water quality in the middle part of stream Vydrica in the Malé Karpaty Mts. Using benthic macroinverte-brates data, we calculated BMWP and ASPT indices to compare results of hy-drobiological researches from the years 1960, 1984 and 2006. We have found out, that the ecological water quality of the Vydrica stre...

Larvae of Athericidae as a part of macroinvertebrate assemblages were investigated at 13 sites of small Carpathians streams (stream order 2-5) and 13 sites of the Hron River basin (3 sites stream order 2-4, 10 sites stream order 6-7) in 2003 and 2004. Samples were collected by kick-ing technique from 100-m-stretches. 99 % of the Athericidae of the...

Larvae of Athericidae as a part of macroinvertebrate assemblages were investigated at 13 sites of small Carpathians streams (stream order 2-5) and 13 sites of the Hron River basin (3 sites stream order 2-4, 10 sites stream order 6-7) in 2003 and 2004. Samples were collected by kicking technique from 100-m-stretches. 99 % of the Athericidae of the H...

Unusual finding of Lacerta viridis (Laurenti. 1768) during the winter season in southwestern Slovakia.

Blown sands are natural pecularities of Slovakia. Present data about eolic sands document the features of the primary geological substratum as well as soil types, plant and animal communities in these special natural sites. Similarly as in Slovakia these habitats are endangered in the whole Pannonian region, so they require European protection.

A multimetric assessment system was developed to determine the ecological status of two types of stream in the Carpathian ecoregion following the requirements of the WFD. The organic pollution gradient was defined using Canonical Correspondence Analysis. Classification based on physical, chemical and biological data divided the tested sites into tw...

Fourteen sampling sites belonging to four stream zones (epirhithral, metarhithral, hyporhithral, epipotamal) of the Hron River were investigated. At each site, geomorphological, physical (using the River Habitat Survey), chemical and biological data were collected. In 2003 and 2004, macroinvertebrates were collected in two-month intervals with the...

Roztoče (Acarina) tvoria druhovo najbohatšiu skupinou pavúkovcov (Arachnida). Na rozdiel od ostatných pavúkovcov sa veľa skupín roztočov vzdialilo od dravého spôsobu života. Niektoré skupiny sú výlučne fytofágne, zatiaľ čo iné žijú v parazitických vzťahoch so stavovcami alebo bezstavovcami. Mnohé roztoče sú považované za užitočné pre človeka, preto...

The primary factor of the origin and occurrence of xerothermic biotopes in Slovakia is the position of the landscape on the border of two biogeographical regions (mountaineous Carpathian region and floodplain Pannonian region (Eupannonicum – edges of the Eupannonian xerothermic flora). Substratum-geomorphological conditions are the second factor. T...

Fourteen sampling sites belonging to four stream zones (epirhithral, metarhithral, hyporhithral, epipotamal) of the Hron River were investigated. At each site, geomorphological, physical (using the River Habi-tat Survey), chemical and biological data were collected. In 2003 and 2004, macroinvertebrates were collected in two-month intervals with the...

We investigated microhabitat distribution of Diptera larvae (excl. Chironomidae, Simuli-idae) in a 4th order calcareous stream in the western Carpathian Mountains of central Europe, the Stupavsky´potok. We divided our 100 m study site into two stretches and took two replicate samples every other month alternately from each stretch for a period of 1...

Structure of hydrocoenoses of the streams in the Poloniny National Park were studied during the years 1999 and 2000. Composition of epilithic diatom communities, microzoobenthos, interstitial communities, all the main groups of macrozoobenthos (permanent fauna, Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Coleoptera, Trichoptera, Diptera) and basic hydrological, abi...

We investigated microhabitat distribution of Diptera larvae (excl. Chironomidae, Simuliidae) in a 4th order calcareous stream in the Western Carpathian Mountains of central Europe, the Stupavsky´potok. We divided our 100 m study site into two stretches and took two replicate samples every other month alternately from each stretch for a period of 1...

Abstract: The occurrence of preimaginal stages of Diptera (excluding Chironomidae and Simuliidae) in the Tatra Mountain lakes, their inlets and outlets, and the influence of acidification on the presence of these taxa were assessed. At 21 sites, 18 Diptera taxa were recorded in 2000 and 2001. The most frequent were Dicranota sp. (73%), Pedicia (C.)...

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The EU Water Framework Directive requires assessment of the ecological quality of running waters using macroinvertebrates. One of the problems of obtaining representative samples of organisms from streams is the choice of sampling date, as the scores obtained from macroinvertebrate indices vary naturally between seasons, confounding the detection o...

Bulánková E.: Using "River Habitat Survey" method in the fluvio-morphological assessment of the Hron River River Habitat Survey (RHS) was used to asses the habitat quality of 13 localities of the Hron River situated from source to the mouth and 1 locality of the Hron River tributary Zubrovica. Hron River is a left tributary of the Danube River and...

The objective of this study is to describe a high-mountain stream ecosystem, with the main emphasis on particulate organic matter, structure of food guilds and the impact of predation upon macroinvertebrates. In the brook Hincov the concentration of total phosphorus and coarse particulate organic matter (CPOM) increased considerably with the increa...

A living adult and two fresh shells of the freshwater snail Gyraulus rossmaessleri (Auerswald, 1852) (Gastropoda, Planorbidae) were found in the lower Morava River alluvial plain in SW Slovakia after thirty-eight years.

The dragonfly Leucorrhinia caudalis (Charpentier, 1840) had not been recorded in Slovakia before 2003. In 2003, we found two sites of occurrence of the species in S Slovakia. L. caudalis is very rare in its area of dis-tribution in Europe and it shows decreasing population trends in the last decades (STERNBERG et al., 2000). In 2000, 74 species of...

Cross-checking of species listed in annexes of the EC Habitat Directive with national species list of fauna known in Slovakia resulted into validated list of the "Natura 2000 species". There are 149 species of animals reported in Slovakia, which are listed in annexes 2 or 4 of the Habitat Directive (10 species are considered to be extinct in the te...

Askew (1988) listed six species of the genus Cordule-gaster Leach, 1815 in Europe but only two of them have been found in the Slovak Republic (David, 2000) till now. Larvae of this genus live in running waters. Larvae of Cordulegaster heros ssp. heros Theischinger, 1979 prefer I.-II. stream order sections with sandy to coarse sediment (Lang et al.,...

Thirty taxa of aquatic Diptera (excl. Chironomidae and Simuliidae) were found in the Gidra river basin in the years 1998-1999. On the basis of the occurrence of dominant and characteristic taxa 3 categories of biotopes have been specified: 1. Crenal and hypocrenal with the occurrence of crenophi- lous (Dixa nubilipennis Curtis, 1832, Dixa maculata...

príspevok bol po redakčných úpravách vytlačený 20. 2. 2002 0:45. Číslovanie strán nezodpovedá číslovaniu, ktoré bude v konečnej podobe časopisu. Po označení potrebných opráv (štandardnými korekčnými značkami) a úpravách podľa požiadaviek redakčnej rady ho vráťte redakcii. Prípadné otázky pošlite e-mail na adresu stloukal@fns.uniba.sk 18-Bulánková -...

DERKA, T., KOVÁČOVÁ, J., BULÁNKOVÁ, E., 2001: Substrate importance for selected macrozoobenthic communities in Rudava river. Folia faunistica Slovaca 6: 59-68. Abstract: The macroinvertebrate communities inhabiting different substrate types were investigated in a small sandy bottom river in SW Slovakia. Special attention was paid to macroinvertebra...

In 1995-96 we found 35 taxa of aquatic Diptera (excl. Chironomidae, Simuliidae) in the catchment of the Hučava stream, which is situated in the Po-ľana Biospheric Reserve. Savtshenkia goriziensis (Strobl, 1893) is characteristic species for mountain crenal zone, Berdeniella unispinosa (Tonnoir, 1919) and Berdeniella manicata (Tonnoir, 1920) for epi...

842 15 Bratislava [bulankova@fns.uniba.sk] 2 Katedra zoológie Prírodovedeckej fakulty UK, Mlynská dolina B-1, 842 15 Bratislava [holecova@fns.uniba.sk] BULÁNKOVÁ, E., HOLECOVÁ, M., 1998: Structure of nabid taxocoenoses (Nabi-dae, Heteroptera) in the herbage undergrowth of oak-hornbeam forests in Malé Karpaty Mts. Folia faunistica Slovaca 3: xx-xx A...

In 1993-1994, larvae and imagines of Odonata were collected in 10 arms of the river Danube. Odonata larvae were also collected during the hydrobiological research of the Morava river basin in 1990-1993. Following the method of hierarchical classification, based on the presence of dragonfly species at selected localities, we distinguished the charac...