CONTENTS

PREFACE

• THE FACULTY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF COMENIUS UNIVERSITY AND THE MONITORING OF THE IMPACT OF THE GABCIKOVO HYDROPOWER STRUCTURES ON INDIVIDUAL LANDSCAPE COMPONENTS

• GABCIKOVO PART OF THE HYDROELECTRIC POWER PROJECT, BASIC CHARACTERISTIC

• CLIMATOLOGICAL MONITORING OF TERRITOTY AFFECTED BY CONSTRUCTION OF THE DANUBE HYDROELECTRIC POWER PROJECT AND EVALUATION OF INITIAL IMPACTS

• RIVER MORPHOLOGY

• WATER REGIME IN THE DANUBE RIVER AND ITS RIVER BRANCHES

• GROUND WATER REGIME CHANGES IN THE AREA INFLUENCED BY CONSTRUCTION OF GABCIKOVO HYDROPOWER STRUCTURES

• CHANGES IN THE GROUND WATER REGIME ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE DANUBE AFTER SETTING GABCIKOVO HYDROPOWER STRUCTURES INTO OPERATION

• GROUNDWATER QUALITY ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE DANUBE RIVER AT THE WATERWORKS KALINKOVO, æAMORIN AND GABCIKOVO

• CURRENT ACTIVITIES IN THE GROUND WATER QUALITY MONITORING MONITORING WELLS, METHODS OF SAMPLING, IN SITU MEASUREMENT

• THE USE OF STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPES AS A CONSERVATIVE TRACER IN THE INFILTRATED DANUBE RIVER WATER

• CHANGES IN THE SOIL MOISTURE REGIME IN THE AERATION ZONE AFTER SETTING THE GABCIKOVO HYDROELECTRIC POWER STRUCTURES INTO OPERATION

• THE MONITORING OF ANTROPOLOGICALLY UNAFFECTED SOILS

• INFLUENCE OF GABCIKOVO HYDROPOWER STRUCTURES ON THE DYNAMICS OF WATER IN THE AERATION ZONE

• IMPACT OF THE GABCIKOVO HYDROPOWER STRUCTURES ON THE SOILS AND AGRICULTURE

• THE RESULTS OF MONITORING OF FOREST FHYTOCOENOSES IN THE AREA AFFECTED BY THE HYDROELECTRIC POWER STRUCTURES GABCIKOVO

• DENDROECOLOGY OF SELECTED FLOODPLAIN TREES OF THE DANUBIAN LOWLAND

• STRUCTURE OF FOREST ECOSYSTEMS AND LEAF AREA INDEX OF WOOD PLANTS, RESULTS OF MONITORING OVER THE YEARS 1991-1994

• GENESIS OF FLORA AND VEGETATION OF THE DANUBE LOWLAND IN RELATION TO THE HYDROELECTRIC POWER STRUCTURES GABCIKOVO-NAGYMAROS

• INFLUENCING OF HABITAT CONDITIONS BY MANIPULATION ON INTAKE STRUCTURES TO THE RIVER ARM SYSTEM AND THE OLD DANUBE RIVER-BED

• REVIEW OF ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE DANUBIAN LOWLAND (TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS)

• BIRD POPULATION AND THEIR ADAPTATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN THE AREA OF THE HYDROELECTRIC POWER STRUCTURES GABCIKOVO

• ADAPTATION OF SELECTED SPECIES OF BIRDS ON ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN THE BY-PASS CANAL OF THE HYDROELECTRIC POWER STRUCTURE GABCIKOVO AND THE ADJACENT INUNDATION OF THE DANUBE

• MONITORING OF THE BIRDS IN THE DANUBE FLOODPLAIN

• COMMENT ON THE ICHTYOFAUNA AND FISHERIES OF THE DANUBE

• MONITORING OF ICHTYOCOENOSES IN THE SLOVAK PART OF THE DANUBE INLAND DELTA BEFORE AND AF1ER OPERATION START OF THE GABCIKOVO BARRAGE SYSTEM

• RECREATIONAL FISHERY BEFORE AND AFTER DAMMING OF THE SLOVAK STRETCH OF THE DANUBE RIVER

• AMPHIBIANS IN SELECTED DANUBIAN FLOODPLAIN HABITATS IN THE GABCIKOVO HYDROELECTRIC POWER STRUCTURES SURROUNDING

• CHANGES IN ENVIRONMENT INDICATED BY MOLLUSCS OBSERVED IN THE BIOMONITORING PROGRAM OF THE HYDROELECTRIC POWER STRUCTURES GABCIKOVO

• SMALL MAMMALS (INSECTIVORA, RODENTIA) IN THE AREA OF THE BARRAGE SYSTEM GABCIKOVO

• OCCURRENCE AND LIFE PERSPECTIVES OF BEAVERS IN THE SLOVAK SECTION OF THE DANUBE RIVER

• PERMANENT MACROZOOBENTHOS IN THE DANUBE AREA BEFORE AND DURING THE OPERATION OF THE GABCIKOVO BARRAGE

• THE IMPACT OF THE HYDROELECTRIC POWER STRUCTURES GABCIKOVO ON THE CILIATE COMMUNITIES (CILIOPHORA)

• THE PLANCTON COPEPOD TAXOCOENOSES OF THE DANUBE INLAND DELTA TWO YEARS AFTER THE GABCIKOVO HYDROPOWER PLANT WAS PUT INTO OPERATION

• CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OF CLADOCERA TAXOCOENOSES AFTER SETTING HYDROELECTRIC POWER STRUCTURES GABCIKOVO INTO OPERATION

• DIVERSITY AND SURVIVAL OF CARABIDAE COMMUNITIES IN THE AREA AFFECTED BY THE BARRAGE SYSTEM GABCIKOVO

• TAXOCOENOSES OF CENTIPEDES (TRACHEATA, CHILOPODA) OF THE TERRITORY INFLUENCED BY THE HYDROELECTRIC POWER STRUCTURES GABCIKOVO

• THE CHANGES OF WEEVIL TAXOCOENOSES (COLEOPTERA, CURCULIONIDAE) IN FOREST SOIL OF THE ASSOCIATION SALICI - POPULETUM IN THE DANUBE RIVER FLOODPLAIN

• THE MONITORING OF BRACONIDAE IN THE TERRITORY INFLUENCED BY THE HYDROELECTRIC POWER STRUCTURES GABCIKOVO

• HETEROPTERA AS A PART OF THE FLOODPLAIN FOREST EPIGEAEON

• DRAGONFLIES (ODONATA) AND AQUATIC BUGS (HETEROPTERA AQUATICA) OF STAGNANT WATERS IN THE REGION OF THE GABCIKOVO PROJECT

• THE CHANGES IN THE TAXOCOENOSES STRUCTURE OF MAYFLIES (EPHENIEROPTERA) AND CADDISFLIES (TRICHOPTERA) OF THE RIVER DANUBE AND THE SURROUNDING STAGNANT WATERS

• CHANGES IN THE BLACK FLY COMMUNITIES (DIPTERA, SIMULIDAE), OF THE DANUBIAN INLAND DELTA

• THE MONITORING OF MOSQUITOES (DIPTERA, CULICIDAE) IN THE AREA AFFECTED BY THE GABCIKOVO HYDROELECTRIC POWER STRUCTURES

• THE GABCIKOVO PART OF THE HYDROELECTRIC POWER PROJECT GABCIKOVO - NAGYMAROS, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REVIEW

• LANDSCAPE AS A SPATIALLY ORGANIZED SYSTEM AND THE GEORELIEF AS A SUBSYSTEM OF LANDSCAPE - THE INFLUENCE OF GEORELIEF ON SPATIAIL DIFFERENTIATION OF LANDSCAPE PROCESSES

• REVIEW OF ECOLOGICAL TERMS AND BIOINDICATIVE ANIMALS FOR SLOVAK READERS (IN SLOVAK)

CONCLUSIONS - ZAVERY (IN SLOVAK)