Where to find me
Department of Biology and Ecology
- Office: 104
- Phone: 048 446 7104
- Email: Marcela.Adamcova@umb.sk
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