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Where to find me

Department of Biology and Ecology

Professional characteristics

Lectures and seminars

Diversity and Phylogeny of Animals - Vertebrates

Human Evolution

Ethology

Practicum from Ornithology and Teriology

Basics of Zootherapy

Methods in Invertebrates and Vertebrates research

Field Zoology course

Pedagogical practice

 

Professional career 

  • 2002 – till now: Assist. Professor, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matthias Belius University, Banská Bystrica

 

Acquirements

  • M.Sc. in Zoology (2000) - Faculty of Science, Comenius University, Bratislava; Thesis: Ecology of snow vole (Chionomys nivalis mirhanreini) in the Western Tatras (Roháče).
  • PhD. (2005) - Instytut Nauk o Srodowisku Wydzial Biologii i Nauk o Ziemi, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Kraków, Poland, Thesis: Zaleznosc arealow osobniczych nornika snieznego (Chionomys nivalis mirhanreini) w Tatrach zachodnich od wieku i struktury socjalnej populacji

 

 

Research interests

  • Ecology of alpine small mammals (focused on endemic snow vole - Chionomys nivalis mirhanreini) in the West and Low Tatras
  • Monitoring of small mammals population - dynamics, spatial and sexual activity and the size of individual districts 
  • Zootherapy and its application in practice

 

Selected publications

  • Hamarová, L., Kopčáková, A., Kocianová - Adamcová, M., Piknová, M., Javorský, P. & Pristaš, P. 2021. Antimicrobial resistance of Enterococci from Wild Animals in Slovakia, Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 30(3):2085–2091
  • Frajtová, Z & Kocianová - Adamcová, M. 2018. Canistherapy and its application to the teaching process at a grammar school. Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Naturae, 3: 142–151
  • Kocianová - Adamcová, M. & Bučeková, L. 2018. Some unusual cases from a rescue and rehabilitation centre for wild animals. Infectious and parasitic diseases of Animals. 6th International Scientific Conference Kosice, Slovakia: 67-68.
  • Bitušík, P., Kocianová - Adamcová, M., Brabec, J., Malina, R., Tesák, J. & Urban, P. 2017. The effects of landscape structure and road topography on mortality of mammals: A case study of two different road types in Central Slovakia. Lynx, n. s. (Praha), 48: 39–51
  • Dorková, M., Kocianová - Adamcová, M., Pristaš, P. & Klinga, P. 2016. Phylogenetic status of endemic Chionomys nivalis mirhanreini in the Western Carpathians. Folia oecologica 43 (1): 3-11
  • Dorková, M. & Kocianová-Adamcová, M. 2015. Populačná dynamika a priestorová aktivita drobných zemných cicavcov v alpínskom stupni Nízkych Tatier (Rodentia, Eulipotyphla). Lynx, 46: 19-28.
  • Urban, P., Kocianová-Adamcová, M. & Malina, R. 2015. Využitie zoologických záhrad, chovných a rehabilitačných staníc živočíchov pri vzdelávaní budúcich učiteľov biológie. Biológia, ekológia, chémia: časopis pre školy. - Trnava 19 (2): 25-32
  • Kocian, Ľ., Žiak, D. & Kocianová – Adamcová, M. 2010. Hmyzožravce a hlodavce. pp 559-570. – In: kolektív, TATRY – príroda. Nakladateľstvo Miloš Uhlíř – Baset. 639 pp.
  • Kocianová – Adamcová, M., Špakulová, M., Kocianová, E. 2006. Long – term variation in an occurence of Rhabditis orbitalis parasitic larvae (Nematoda, Rhabditidae) in the eyes of montane rodents. Helminthologia, 43, 4: 232 – 236, December 2006

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