PF

prof. RNDr. Ľubomír Kováč, CSc.   SK

Email:
lubomir.kovac@upjs.sk
Homepage:
www.upjs.sk/PF/zamestnanec/lubomir.kovac/
Faculty:
PF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science
Department:
ÚBEV - Institute of Biology and Ecology
Office:
RB3O334
Phone:
+421 55 234 1174
ORCID ID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8194-2128

Higher education and further qualification growth
Second degree of higher education:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science, 1986, Teacher Preparation Programme Biology-Chemistry
Third degree of higher education:
Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, 1995, Entomology
Associate professor:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, 2004, Biology
Professor:
Comenius University in Bratislava, 2018, General Ecology and Ecology of Individuals and Populations

Research /art/ teacher profile

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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
Study programme: Teacher Preparation Programme Biology in combination, study field: Teaching and Educational Sciences, 2. degree
Study programme: Zoology and Animal Physiology, study field: Biology, 2. degree
Study programme: Zoology and Animal Physiology, study field: Biology, 3. degree
Profile courses
Zoogeography - ZFZm - Zoology and Animal Physiology, BXmu - Biology-X Teaching, 2. degree
Conservation Biology - BXmu - Biology-X Teaching, 2. degree
Biogeography - ZFZd - Zoology and Animal Physiology, 3. degree
Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure: Biology, study field to which it is assigned: Biology
Selected publications

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

 

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

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
Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, Mexico City, Mexiko, March-April 1995, April 1998, guest professor
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazília, March - April 2007, guest professor
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
Organisational activities
external member - Scientific Board, Institute os Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, 2019-
external member - Scientific Board, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Matej Bel, banská Bystrica, 2014-
external member - Commission of the Doctoral Study, study programme Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, 2006-
member, vice-chairman, chairman - Slovak Scientific Grant Agency VEGA, Commission for Biological Sciences, 2008-2012, 2016-

Additional information

Awards
  • President of the International Society for Subterranean Biology“ (2012–2016), member from 2002
  • Main organizer of the 21st Int. Conference on Subterranean Biology, 2–7 September 2012, Košice, Slovakia
  • Member of Scientific Committee of the 23rd Int. Conference on Subterranean Biology, 13–17 June 2016, Fayeteville, Arkansas, USA
  • Member of Scientific Committee of the 24th Int. Conference on Subterranean Biology, 20–24 August 2018, Aveiro, Portugal
  • Plenary lecture, 18th International Conference on Subterranean Biology, 10–15 July 2006, Cluj, Romania
  • Plenary lecture, 24th International Conference on Subterranean Biology, 20–24 August 2018, Aveiro, Portugal
  • Monograph co-editor: Moldovan, O.T., Kováč, Ľ., Halse, S., 2018: Cave Ecology. Ecological Studies, Vol. 235, Springer-Verlag, pp. 545, ISBN 978-3-319-98850-4
  • Subterranean Biology (Pensoft): associate and subject editor (2012-)
  • Biologia (Springer): associate editor (2018-)
  • Biodiversity Data Journal (Pensoft): field editor (2020-)
  • IUCN SSC Cave Invertebrate Specialist Group: working group member (2014-)
  • Projects
  • Slovak Research and Development Agency, project APPV-17-0477: Molecular phylogeny of unique subterranean fauna (2018-2022), principal investigator
  • Slovak Scientific Grant Agency, project VEGA 1/0346/18: Relictual forms of arthropods (Arthropoda) in the Western Carpathians – morphology, ecology and phylogeny (2018-2021), 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
  • Further information


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