Email:
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lubomir.kovac@upjs.sk | |
Homepage:
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https://www.upjs.sk/PF/zamestnanec/lubomir.kovac/ | |
Faculty:
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PF UPJŠ
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Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science
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Department:
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ÚBEV
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Institute of Biology and Ecology
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Office:
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RB3O334 | |
Phone:
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+421 55 234 1174 | |
ORCID ID:
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8194-2128 |
Overview of the responsibility for
the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part
at the university in the current academic year
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Study programme: Teacher Preparation Programme Biology in combination, study field: Teaching and Educational Sciences, 2. degree
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Study programme: Zoology and Animal Physiology, study field: Biology, 2. degree
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Study programme: Zoology and Animal Physiology, study field: Biology, 3. degree
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Profile courses
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Zoogeography - ZFZm - Zoology and Animal Physiology, BXmu - Biology-X Teaching, 2. degree
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Conservation Biology - BXmu - Biology-X Teaching, 2. degree
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Biogeography - ZFZd - Zoology and Animal Physiology, 3. degree
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Overview of the responsibility for
the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure
in the current academic year
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Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure:
Biology, study field to which it is assigned: Biology
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Selected publications
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Kováč, Ľ., Parimuchová, A., Miklisová, D., 2016: Distributional patterns of cave Collembola (Hexapoda) in association with habitat conditions, geography and subterranean refugia in the Western Carpathians. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 119 (3): 571–592. IF = 2.288; JCR = Q3 Evolutionary Biology; SJR = Q1 Ecology, Evolution Behavior and Systematics; WoS citations: 16
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Raschmanová, N., Šustr, V., Kováč, Ľ., Parimuchová, A., Devetter, M., 2018: Testing the climatic variability hypothesis in edaphic and subterranean Collembola (Hexapoda). Journal of Thermal Biology, 78: 391–400. IF = 1.902; JCR = Q2 Biology; SJR = Q1 Agricultural and Biological Sciences; WoS citations: 19 |
Kováč, Ľ., 2018: Caves as oligotrophic ecosystems. Pp.297–307. In: Moldovan, O.T., Kováč, Ľ., Halse, S. (eds.) Cave Ecology. Ecological Studies, vol. 235. Springer 1–545. ISBN 978-3-319-98850-4 WoS citations: 8 |
Čuchta, P., Miklisová, D., Kováč, Ľ., 2019: The succession of soil Collembola communities in spruce forests of the High Tatra Mountains five years after the windthrow and clear-cut logging. Forest Ecology and Management, 433: 504–513. IF = 3.170; JCR = Q1 Forestry; SJR = Q1 Forestry / Nature and Landscape Conservation; WoS citations: 11 |
Ballesteros, J.A., Santibáñez López, C.E., Kováč, Ľ., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P., 2019: Ordered phylogenomic subsampling enables diagnosis of systematic errors in the placement of the enigmatic, long-branch arachnid order Palpigradi. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286: 20192426. IF = 4.637; JCR = Q1 Biology; SJR = Q1 Agricultural and Biological Scienes/Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, WoS citations: 24 |
Parimuchová, A., Petráková Dušátková, L., Kováč, Ľ., Macháčková, T., Slabý, O., Pekár, S., 2021: The food web in a subterranean ecosystem is driven by intraguild predation. Scientific Reports, 11: art. no. 4994. IF = 4.997; JCR = Q2 Multidisciplinary Sciences; SJR = Q1 Multidisciplinary; WoS citations: 13 |
Kováč, Ľ., Žurovcová, M., Raschmanová, N., Jureková, N., Papáč, V., Parimuchová, A., 2023: Troglomorphic adaptations on the northern European frontier: the phylogeny of the cave Pseudosinella (Hexapoda, Collembola) in the Western Carpathians. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 11: 1169911. IF 2022 = 3.0; JCR 2022 = Q2 Ecology; SJR 2022 = Q1 Ecology/ Ecology, Behavior, Evolution and Systematics |
Selected projects
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Project APPV-17-0477 (Slovak Research and Development Agency): “Molecular phylogeny of unique subterranean fauna", 07/2018-07/2022, principal investigator |
Project VEGA 1/0438/22 (Slovak Scientific Grant Agency): „Functional importance of the cave entrances as a transition zone for terrestrial arthropod communities (Arthropoda)“, 01/2022-12/2025, principal investigator |
Project VEGA 1/0346/18 (Slovak Scientific Grant Agency): "Relictual forms of arthropods (Arthropoda) in the Western Carpathians – morphology, ecology and phylogeny", 01/2018-12/2021, principal investigator |
Ministry of Environment SR, State Nature Conservation SR – Slovak Caves Administration, Operational programme Quality of Environment, project ITMS 2014+: 310011P445: "Protection and care of the Slovakian caves I – Biospeleological research and monitoring of invertebrates" (2021-2023), principal investigator |
COST CA18237 - European Soil-Biology Data Warehouse for Soil Protection (2019-2023), member of Management Committee |
National Geographic Society, grant number NGS-93344R-22: "Revealing the subterranean biodiversity of Georgia (Caucasus Mts)", 06/2022–05/2024, project member |
Project APPV-21-0379 (Slovak Research and Development Agency): “Functional traits of terrestrial arthropods along epigean-hypogean gradient of the cave entrances”, 07/2022-06/2026, principal investigator |
International mobilities and visits
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Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, Mexico City, Mexiko, March-April 1995, April 1998, guest professor
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Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazília, March - April 2007, guest professor
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Institute of Soil Biology, Biology Centre, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, several short-term stays in the period 1991-2009, Mobility scheme between Slovak Academy of Sciences and Czech Academy of Sciences
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Organisational activities
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external member - Scientific Board, Institute os Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, 2019-
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external member - Scientific Board, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Matej Bel, banská Bystrica, 2014-
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external member - Commission of the Doctoral Study, study programme Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences,
Comenius University, Bratislava, 2006-
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member, vice-chairman, chairman - Slovak Scientific Grant Agency VEGA, Commission for Biological Sciences, 2008-2012, 2016-
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Awards
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Projects
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