Professional characteristics

 

Lectures

Habitats of Slovakia - exercises

Habitats of Slovakia for teachers - exercises

Cytology, anatomy and morphology of plants - exercises

Restoration ecology - exercises

Practicum in plant anatomy - exercises

Dendrology - exercises

Plant diversity and phylogeny - exercises

Diversity and phylogeny of vascular plants - exercises

Diversity and phylogeny of vascular plants - field exercises

Field exercises in botany and zoology

Practicum in botany

 

Current and previous employment

• 1987-1994; Administration of the Protected Landscape Area Muránska planina, botanist
• 1994 – 2023; Administration of the Low Tatras National Park, botanist
• 2023 – present; Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Matej Bel in Banská Bystrica, university teacher

 

 Education

• 2009 - PhD., study field: Ecology (Technical University in Zvolen, workplace Institute of Landscape Ecology, Bratislava)
• 1987 – Dr., study field and programme:  Systematic Biology and Ecology (Faculty of Natural Science of the Comenius University in Bratislava)

 

Research interest

• Carpathian endemic plants and the study of their distribution characteristics.
• Ecobiology of selected plant species.
• Floristic and floristic-ecological analyzes of selected areas.

 

Participation in conducting the research projects over the last six years (2019 – 2024)

2017 – 2020 VEGA 2/0154/17: Flora of Slovakia – Asteraceae (Part 1): biosystematic study of critical taxa; external co-worker

2021 – 2024 VEGA 2/0132/21 Diversity of meadow and pasture habitates in Slovakia after two decades in the European Union; co-worker

2021 – 2025 APVV-20-0358 Reading in natural archives: thousands of years of environmental history and climate change recorded in alpine lakes of the Ukrainian Carpathians; co-worker

2022 – 2025 VEGA 2/0098/22 Living on the edge. Evolutionary and bioecological aspects of narrow endemic Daphne arbuscula Čelak. (Thymelaeaceae) inhabiting extreme rocky habitats; co-worker

2022 – 2026 APVV-21-0044 Reticulate or divergent evolution? Resolving processes behind the high species richness and endemism in Brassicaceae genera; co-worker

 

Selected publications (2019 – 2023)

1) Turis P., Turisová I., 2019: Does Erysimum hungaricum Zapał. (Brassicaceae) still grow in Romania? Contribuţii Botanicae, LIV: 107-122.

2) Turis P., Košťál J., 2019: Rostliny Karpat [Carpathian plants]. Academia, Praha, 319 pp. ISBN 978-80-200-2937-9

3) Breman E., Hurdu B.-I., Kliment J., Kobiv Yu., Kučera J., Mráz P., Pușcaș M., Renaud J., Ronikier M., Šibík J., Schmotzer A., Štubňová E., Szatmari P.-M., Tasenkevich L., Turis P., Slovák M., 2020: Conserving the endemic flora of the Carpathian Region: an international project to increase and share knowledge of the distribution, evolution and taxonomy of Carpathian endemics and to conserve endangered species. Plant Systematics and Evolution 306, 59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-020-01685-5

4) Turis P., 2020: Nálezy niektorých nepôvodných rastlín v Národnom parku Nízke Tatry. [Findings of some non-native plants in the Low Tatras National Park]. Naturae Tutela, 24, 2: 155-168.

5) Di Sacco A., Gajdošová Z., Slovák M., Turisová I., Turis P., Kučera J., Müller J. V., 2021: Seed germination behaviour of the narrow endemic Daphne arbuscula (Thymelaeaceae) compared to the more widespread Daphne cneorum. Folia Geobot., 56: 13–25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12224-021-09389-5

6) Felbaba-Klushyna L., Turisová I., Turis P., Voloshchuk M. M., Gapon S., 2023: Vegetation cover of subalpine lakes within the Svydovets ridge (Ukrainian Carpathians) and prospects for its protection. Biologia.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-023-01386-7

7) Gajdošová Z., Svitok M., Cetlová V., Mártonfiová L., Kučera J., Kolarčik V., Hurdu B. I., Sîrbu I. M., Turisová I., Turis P., Slovák M., 2023: Incidence and evolutionary relevance of autotriploid cytotypes in a relict member of the genus Daphne (Thymelaeaceae).  AoB PLANTS, 15: 1–13.   https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plad056

8) Turis P., Turisová I., Felbaba-Klushyna L., Voloshchuk M. M., 2023: Notes on the occurrence of selected sozologically and phytogeographically important plants in high-mountain area of the Svydovets and Chornogora (Ukrainian Carpathians). Thaiszia – J. Bot., Košice, 33 (2): 105-116.