Projects

OBE senior researcher
Mgr. Ladislav Pekárik, PhD.

International

Current
  • Boat to rescue four Danube sturgeon species from extinction
    Program: LIFE
    Duration: 1. 9. 2022 – 28. 2. 2030
Finished
  • The European Aquatic Animal Tracking Network
    Program: COST
    Duration: 1. 4. 2019 – 31. 3. 2023
  • Genomic biodiversity knowledge for resilient ecosystems
    Program: COST
    Duration: 1. 3. 2019 – 31. 3. 2023
  • Increasing understanding of alien species through citizen science – Alien CSI
    Program: COST
    Duration: 1. 6. 2018 – 30. 6. 2022
  • Restoration of sterlet populations in the Austrian Danube - LIFE
    Program: LIFE
    Duration: 1. 1. 2015 – 30. 6. 2022

National

Current
  • Bees cannot make it all - DNA metabarcoding analysis of pollinator biodiversity for improving their protection and ecosystem services
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 7. 2022 – 30. 6. 2026
  • How environmental DNA (eDNA) reflects life in alpine lakes and their catchments: DNA metabarcoding in the Tatra lakes research
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2021 – 31. 12. 2024
Finished
  • Diversity and distribution of species and communities in changing environment
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2019 – 31. 12. 2022
  • Comparative ecology of selected invasive fish species in Slovakia and Serbia in respect with climate change and human disturbance
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2019 – 31. 12. 2021
  • Diversity and dispersal in metapopulations and metacommunities of small aquatic biotopes
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2017 – 31. 12. 2020
  • Evolutionary importance of predation rate on life history adaptations of fishes
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2014 – 31. 12. 2017
  • Microhabitat use of sexual and Conal forms of loach fishes of the genus Cobitis (Cypriniformes) in Odra and Danube River basins
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2016 – 31. 12. 2017
  • Danube sturgeons management and protection
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 10. 2013 – 30. 9. 2017