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The preserved complex of forest stands of the beech up to the spruce forest vegetation level mainly of primeval forest character within the National Nature Reserve Zadn? Po?ana has been a part of the core zone of the Biosphere Reserve Po?ana within the project ?Human and Biosphere? of the UNESCO organisation since 1990. Also these forest stands are being influenced to a great extent by abiotic and biotic harmful agents, which negatively affect their health and further development. Since the late 1990s, the Nationa...

This paper presents macro- and micromorphological, mineralogical and physicochemical characteristics of solonetzic processes that developed within a 14-cm-thick plough (P) layer of non-ameliorated Solonetz over a 50-year-long period of its post-agrogenic evolution. These processes have resulted in the formation of a microporofile with micromorphological features of eluvial-illuvial differentiation within the former plough layer. The mineralogical analysis of particle-size fractions (?1, 1?5, 5?10, >10 ?m) of the p...

Protected natural areas are ideal for monitoring relatively undisturbed natural development of both inorganic and organic parts of ecosystem. The stock-taking of species occurring in the nature reserve is not only crucial to maintain the function of natural reserve, but also to monitor the development of species spectrum, as well as the diversity and succession under conditions relatively undisturbed by anthropogenic factors. Prosisko nature reserve was established in 1998 in order to protect forest ecosystems wit...