Lectures and seminars:

Diversity and phylogeny of animals 

Diversity and phylogeny of animals 1

Diversity and phylogeny of animals - field exercises

Inland water ecology

Fundamentals of ecology

Animal cytology, anatomy and morphology

Nature in the Quaternary

Research interests:

• Limnology of mountain streams and lakes
• Ecology, taxonomy and distribution of chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidae)
• Paleolimnology: a reconstruction of the past environmental changes using subfossil bioindicators

Projects:

• KEGA 003UMB-4/2023 (2023 – 2025) "Concepts and methods for wildlife conservation monitoring", co-worker 
• Project RRF-2.3.1-21-2022-00014 (2022 – 2026) "National Multidisciplinary Laboratory for Climate Change", co-worker
• APVV-20-0358 (2021 – 2025) "Reading in natural archives: thousands of years of environmental history and climate change recorded in alpine lakes of the Ukrainian", co-worker
• VEGA 1/0400/21 (2021 – 2024) "Dynamics of the benthic communities of Tatra Mts. alpine lakes under climate change and acidification: individual and synergic effects of multiple global stressors", co-worker
• VEGA 1/0341/18 (2018 – 2020) "Chironomids as indicators of palaeoenvironmental changes: Building a model to reconstruct Late-Glacial and Holocene temperatures based on subfossil chironomid of the Tatra Mts", co-worker 
• APVV-15-0292 (2018 – 2020) "Deglaciation and postglacial climatic evolution recorded in the lake deposits of the High Tatra Mountains", co-worker
• VEGA 1/0664/15 (2015 – 2017) "A 250 year history of human impacts on a landscape of the Banská Štiavnica mining territory: a palaeolimnological reconstruction using biotic and abiotic indicators from lake sediments", co-worker 

List of selected publications:

Papers published in journals indexed in WoS

• Bitušík P., Chamutiová T., Vidhya M., Horáčková Š., Pipík R., Starek D., Milovský R., Žatková L. & Hamerlík L. 2024. From oligotrophy to dystrophy: the ontogeny of a humic lake in an extrazonal boreal taiga in Central Europe. Journal of Quaternary Science: 39(3): 457-472. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3598
• Slobodníková V., Hamerlík L., Wojewódka-Przybył M., Sochuliaková L., Szarlowicz K., Buczkó K., Chamutiová T., Sedlačková Přidalová M. & Bitušík, P. 2023. Tracking Fish Introduction in a Mountain Lake over the Last 200 Years Using Chironomids, Diatoms, and Cladoceran Remains. Water, 15(7): 1372.
• Chamutiová T., Hamerlík L. & Bitušík P. 2020. Subfossil chironomids (Diptera, Chironomidae) of lakes in the Tatra Mountains: an illustrated guide. Zootaxa, 4819(2): 216–264.
• Chamutiová T., Hamerlík L., Szarlowicz K., Pipík R. Starek D., Šporka F. Přidalová M., Sochuliaková L. & Bitušík P. 2018. Historical development of three man-made reservoirs in a mining region: a story told by subfossil chironomids. J. Limnol. 77: 220-229.
• Bitušík P., Trnková K., Chamutiová T., Sochuliaková L., Stoklasa J., Pipík R., Szarlowicz K., Szacilowski G., Thomková K., Šporka F., Starek D., Šurka J., Milovský R. & Hamerlík L. 2018. Tracking human impact in a mining landscape using lake sediments: a multi-proxy palaeolimnological study. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 504: 23-33.

Published abstracts from a foreign scientific conference

• Chamutiová T., Hamerlík L., Kyška Pipík R., Szarlowicz K., Thomková K., Přidalová M. & Bitušík P. 2017. Subfossil chironomids from the sediments of man-made reservoirs as a tool for tracking back human influence in a mining region. – Book of abstracts, 20th International Symposium on Chironomidae (Trento 02. – 08. 07. 2017), Italy.
• Chamutiová T., Hamerlík L., Kyška Pipík R., Szarlowicz K., Thomková K., Přidalová M., Bitušík P. 2017. What can Chironomidae dead heads tell us about human influences in Banská Štiavnica mining region? - 9th workshop on biodiversity. Czech Republic, pp. 149.

• Chamutiová T., Hamerlík L., Szarlowicz K., Kyška Pipík R., Thomková K., Přidalová M., Bitušík P. 2018. Comparison of historical development of three man-made reservoirs in a mining region using subfossil chironomids. - 3rd Central European symposium for aquatic macroinvertebrate research : 8-13 July 2018, Łódź, Poland : book of abstracts. online, pp. 28.

• Vidhya M., Žatková L., Chamutiová T., Trnková K., Milovský R., Starek D., Šurka J. Ramachandran D., Hamerlík L., Kyška Pipík R., Bitušík P. 2019. Multiproxy study of the early Holocene limnic deposits of the Batizovské Lake (High Tatras, Slovakia). Lakes and reservoirs : hot spots and topics in limnology : book of abstracts. Toruń: Polish Limnological Society, pp. 115.