Matej Petkovšek

• B. Sc. Biology
• Consultant at Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation

The Standard Data Form (SDF) for Natura 2000 sites was first officially published by the European Commission (EC) in 1997. The information in the SDF is grouped into seven sections, the most extensive of which contains ecological information on species and habitat types in the site. As information technology develops and the EU enlarges, the SDF is...

Prispevek povzema rezultate nekaterih prostorskih analiz omrežja Natura 2000 z drugimi prostorskimi podatkovnimi sloji – poseljenostjo, rabo tal, nadmorsko višino in naklonom površja, drugimi naravovarstveno pomembnimi območji, gozdnimi rezervati, varovalnimi gozdovi, cestnim omrežjem, občinami in statističnimi regijami. Namen prispevka je javnosti...

The Ličenca Valley (the LiËenca stream is also called LiËnica by the locals) is situated in the area northwest of PoljËane, spreading on a good 2,700 ha in the midst of Dravinjske gorice. Its main feature is the wet landscape, which in the tiny valleys of side streams passes into well preserved and in places almost intact nature. One of the most at...

The increased nature conservation awareness in the second half of the 20th century initiated nature conservation movements and founding of international nature conservation organizations. Various international conventions were adopted, aimed at biodiversity conservation. In order to achieve these objectives, the EU adopted the Birds and Habitats Di...

Ecological, morphological, hydrological and physical-chemical condition of watercourses is an important indicator on the ecological condition of habitats of the selected species and habitat types in Natura 2000 sites. By analysing the existing data and certain already established methods of the watercourses' ecological-morphological condition monit...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the construction of the nature conservation information system in Slovenia, into which all official and more detailed data related to nature conservation will be integrated. The existing databases are to be replaced by a single base, which will diminish the possibility of errors occurring in data p...

In the frame of an EC financed project LIFE04NAT/SI/000240 (the financial programme " LIFE III– Nature "), the Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation (ZRSVN) has built the information system for the nature conservation related data for Slovenia. The information system was built in cooperation with the Environmental Agency of...

IZVLEČEK Cona vrste oziroma cona habitatnega tipa opredeljuje območje habitata posamezne vrste ali habitatnega tipa in pripomore k boljšemu upravljanju ter kakovostnejšim postopkom presoj planov, načrtov in posegov na območjih Natura 2000. Zavod RS za varstvo narave je izdelal 1492 con z relativno hitro in poceni metodo. S testiranjem nekaterih con...