Key words: protected area, European chestnut, aboveground dendromass, phytocoenosis, succession

Key words: secondary succession, abandoned meadows, Arrhenatheretalia, Picea abies, Central Slovakia, Western Carpathians

Key words: shrews (Sorex araneus, Sorex minutus, Sorex alpinus), sets of forest types, hypsographic levels of Slovakia, redundancy analysis RDA

Key words: subalpine spruce forest, Sorbus aucuparia, regeneration, spatial pattern, W Carpathians, S Poland

Key words: strategy of the sustainable development, natural potential, human resources, socioeconomic development

Key words: carabids and staphylinids, communities, seminatural and drained peat meadows, southern Bohemia

Key words: forest stand, soil water, hydrolimits, available water

Key words: acidification, metal leaching, metal uptake, liming, risk assessment, different fertiliser scenarios, long-term impact, SMART model, Slovakian and Hungarian soils