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The recent advances in machine learning led to exponential improvement in the field of artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs). For university study and university students, LLMs can offer opportunities in several areas. But on the other hand, output from LLMs should be handled using critical thinking. In our research, we wanted to investigate the level of awareness of publicly available LLMs among the bachelor and master students (n=22) of Landscape Engineering program at the Slovak University of...

Riparian vegetation of water streams represents dynamic ecosystem, which meets various functions. Since it forms a buffer zone between the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, it is of great importance in the ecological stability of landscape. Its importance is even higher nowadays when the effect of human activities on the environment is much stronger than in the past. The structure and quality of the vegetation comprising the riparian zone plays an important role in its ability to provide various ecosystem functi...

Water erosion is one form of physical soil degradation. As a result of climate change, global warming and changes in the distribution of atmospheric precipitation are also taking place in Slovakia. In the southern, warmer regions, snowfall decreases during the winter at the expense of rain precipitation. During the winter period outside the main crop growing season, arable land is often without a vegetation cover to protect the soil structure from the action of the kinetic energy of falling rain. For this reason, ...

Biochar is being studied for few decades as it finds various applications in mitigating climate change, improving soil properties and water retention which subsequently potentially improves the crop yields. One of the parameters potentially predicting the crop yield is the crop density during the vegetation period as it represents the number of plants per area unit that can photosynthesize and potentially bring yield at the end of vegetation season. The paper presents the observations on the changes in canopy dens...

Soil erosion by water is a type of physical degradation of the soil that is causing significant losses of topsoil worldwide. The susceptibility of the specific area to water erosion can be assessed by taking into account the effect of the specific erosion factors such as rainfall erosivity, soil erodibility, properties of the topography (mainly slope length and gradient), vegetation cover and erosion control practices. It is obvious that not all factors can be controlled by human to the same extent. This contribut...

Soil erosion by water is one of the kinds of soil degradation that creates challenges for soil management worldwide. Erosion risk potential is a result of combination of various erosion factors. Every soil can be affected by water erosion however, some soils are more prone to this process than the other. On the other hand, water erosion causes changes in the soil properties of the affected area. The aim of the study was to investigate the change in some of the most fundamental soil properties caused by erosion pro...

Soil compaction is a significant process of soil degradation worldwide which affects the productive function of the soil, but also its susceptibility to other degradation processes of the soil and landscape such as soil erosion and floods. There are primary and secondary reasons of soil susceptibility to compaction. Primary compaction is conditioned by the genetic properties of the soil. Secondary compaction is caused by human activities, directly ? due to wheel pressure of agricultural mechanisms, or indirectly ?...

Soil and its irreplaceable functions are dependent on the soil properties. Porosity is one of the fundamental physical soil properties. It expresses the ratio between the volume of pores in the soil and the total volume of the soil in its undisturbed state. The aim of the contribution was to determine soil porosity of soil samples with different soil texture (originating in western Slovakia). Prior to porosity calculation, specific weights of dry undisturbed soil samples and bulk densities were calculated. To dete...