Jozef Vilček

Soil Science And Conservation Research Institute | VUPOP

The paper describes water quality in the Raszynka River based on selected chemical parameters dependent on different land use. The research was carried out in the Raszynka River catchment, characterized by a small surface area (75.9 km2) and length (17.14 km). The river is a right tributary of the Utrata River. It is located in the Piaseczno and Pr...

The article analyses the relation of market prices in the agricultural land market and selected pedological characteristics of traded lands. During the period of 2009–2018 in 12 districts of Slovakia more than 153,000 plots with different pedo-ecological and geographic conditions have been analysed. Based on soil types, texture composition, steepne...

The topical issues for elaboration of new approaches to grow English oak (Quercus robur L.) seedlings with the purpose to establish sustainable plantations in forest-steppe Ukraine. The goal of the research is to elaborate a technology for growing the containerized seedlings of English oak. Oaks are among the most common tree species found througho...

Global climate change influences plant invasion which spreads all over the Europe. Invasive plants are predominantly manifest negative impacts, which require increased attention not only from ecologists. The research examines the possibilities offered by geospatial technologies in mapping the spatial spread of invasive plants of the genus Solidago....

The principal aim of the study is to identify the nature and causes of changes to the surface of a landfill body of waste from nickel production located in the industrial zone of the town of Sereď (Slovak Republic). This change is related to natural and anthropogenic geomorphological processes characteristic of the temperate zone of the northern he...

The aim of the study was to investigate the properties of the metallurgical sludge—waste from nickel production—on the landfill of a former nickel plant in Sereď, Slovakia, in relation to the technosols soil group. The sludge is a loose material which is a toxic industrial technological anthropogenic sediment of an unnatural black colour which orig...

Water pollution, both surface and underground, by agricultural activity is a relatively serious problem. The pollutants are transported from the soil to the water. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the soil transport function on the basis of present knowledge of soil nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) transport and soil and local properties. The...

In this paper we point out the basic soil parameters characterizing current arable land, permanent grassland, vineyards, and orchards in Slovakia. While the area of permanent land use types is more or less stable, there is a noticeable decrease in the area of arable land. In Slovakia, arable land is located mainly on the plain. The value of its pro...

This paper presents an attempt to differentiate the Slovak rural landscape with respect to the possibility of effective potato cultivation and to characterise soil parameters of current potato cultivation areas with the aim to increase the sustainability of the potato production. The selection was based on soil climatic, production and economic par...

Growing potato demands considerable external inputs of pesticides due to its susceptibility to various pests and pathogens. Here we present an attempt to differentiate the Slovak rural landscape with respect to the possibility of effective potato cultivation and to characterise soil parameters of current potato cultivation areas with the aim to inc...

Soil functions are very important parameters of soil quality. The transport soil function plays a dominant role in terms of transport and accumulation of substances in a vertical and horizontal direction in the soil. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the soil transport function on the base of present knowledge of nutrients (nitrogen and phosphor...

Identification of Soils for Reduced Tillage and No-Till Farming Using GIS Jozef Vilček, Štefan Koco, Stanislav Torma, Tomáš Lošák, Jacek Antonkiewicz4 Abstract Reduced tillage and no-till farming technology is possible to employ only under particular soil conditions. The total land area of sites in Slovakia that are available for the application...

The article presents the results of measurements of magnetic properties of samples spolic technosols (alcalic/hyperartefactic) form the landfill of black nickel mud at Sered’, Slovakia. We measured the dependence of magnetic moment as a function of temperatures (240-340 K) and applied magnetic fields up to 7.2 MA/m (90 kOe). We observed at room tem...

On the basis of existing spatial databases and maps of soil parameters relating to production, environmental parameters and soil threats, indices of agricultural soil quality in Slovakia were developed and their distribution shown on maps. Existing maps of agricultural soil properties in vector format developed at the Soil Science and Conservation...

The work objective is to differentiate rural land of Slovakia with aspect to the possibility of effective rye growing. The differentiation is based on pedo-climatic and production economic parameters. At soil categorization, correlation relationships between the site properties (soil and climatic conditions) and crop biological and agro-technologic...

On the basis of structure and qualitative parameters of agricultural soils, there are only 23.4% non profitable soils for the winter wheat growing in the total area of the Gemer Region. The same percentage for the corn maize growing is 78.7%, for the sugar beet growing 80.0% and for winter rape growing 46.0% of the total agricultural soils area in...

The high rate of the Stagnosols and Gleysols in the East Slovak Lowland substantially influences the potential utilisation of the existing agro-ecosystems. On the basis of the pedologic and informative system of Slovak soils investigation, we determined the possible structural, productive and economic parameters of the soil representatives in the E...

With increasing demand for sustainable production, the need to effectively utilise site-based resources increases. One such resource is the remaining crop residues, both above and below ground, after harvest. In order to assess the magnitude of this resource, this study determined the plant nutrient contribution of residues from 17 different crops...

The quantity and quality of crop residues of sugar beet was studied over three years in five geomorphological units of the Slovak Republic on the most widespread soil types in these areas – Fluvisols, Chernozems, Mollic Fluvisols, Haplic Luvisols and Regosols. It was found that sugar beet crop residues found in soil after harvest amount to approx....

The report is dealing with the categorization of the agricultural landscape. Present classificatory systems of the landscape were analysed as the source material hereby, in preference, were soil, geographic and production specifics of individual Slovak region considered. On the background of vector data on extension of the soil-ecological regions o...

Thermal continentality plays an important role not only in the basic characterisation of the climate in particular regions but also in the phytogeographic distribution of plants and ecosystem formation. Due to ongoing climate change, questions surrounding the changes of thermal continentality are very relevant. Therefore, the aim of this study is t...

Based on the soil characteristics and economic parameters, the agricultural land in Slovakia was grouped into different categories with respect to their suitability for sugarbeet cultivation, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Four categories of soils were identified: highly suitable soils, moderately suitable soils, less suitable soils an...

The influence of continents and oceans plays conceptually the key role in the climate conditions of Europeans regions. Continentality is also an important phytogeographic factor of vegetation distribution in Slovakia. This study analysed continentality development at six meteorological stations in Slovakia during the periods 1951–2013, or 1961–2013...

By the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based on existing databases on soil characteristics, it is possible to quantify and assess categories of soil suitability important for crop cultivation. In this paper we demonstrate such methods for winter wheat. The objective was to differentiate the Slovak rural landscape with respect to...

Sorption of the cations NH4+, Al3+, Fe2+, Mn2+, and Mg2+ in powdered zeolite and its mixture with soil was monitored. More than 90% of the observed cations were fixed in the zeolite in the first few minutes of the laboratory experiment, which is a very fast speed of sorption, and the ammonia cations reacted fastest. Consequently, the dynamics of th...

The soil environmental index (SEI), which is a four digit code system, represents relatively homogenous spatial unit with specific soil capacity to provide ecological or non-production functions. This work aimed to present information on rating and economic evaluation of SEI, which is a spatial identifier used for expressing heterogeneity of Slovak...

The dynamics of nitrate and ammoniac nitrogen in soil after the application of zeolite of various amounts was monitored. The decreased ammonium content was apparent one month after zeolite application compared to the variants without zeolite due to the specific fixation of NH4+ cations on the zeolite lattice (92.5 mg at the control variant and 77.2...

This work presents information on rating and financial evaluation of environmental soil potential indexes (ESPI). These indexes enable identification of relatively homogenous spatial units with the specific soil capacity to provide for its individual environmental functions. The ESPI four-digit code expresses the degree of capacity of the soil to a...

The Poprad basin plays an important role in the Slovak Republic and it is one of the most densely populated basins in the Slovakia. For this particular aspect, a man greatly influenced the development of the landscape structure. In the examined period, the appearance of the basin as well as the proportion of individual elements was significantly ch...

This paper presents particular potential rates of solids production and profitability of the production for the most occurring soil types, categories of steepness, skeletally, soil depth and granularity. The calculation confirms the high correlation of profitability and natural yield of the crop production. Sustainable positive profitability in the...

The article aims to analyze suitability of land selection for cultivation of sugar beet in Slovakia in the period from 2008 to 2012. The results confirmed, that there are enough soils suitable for sugar beet growing in Slovakia. The area of sugar beet cultivation is conditioned by the presence of only two two sugar rafineries, which are in operatio...

Areal or pointed extension of soil contamination by risk elements was determined in samples from 47 locatoins of agricultural soils in "pollution-loaded" regions of eastern Slovakia during 2006 and 2008. These regions were primarily the areas of middle Spiš and northern Gemer, where soils were under long-term contamination by solid polluting elemen...

Soil use is oft en accompanied by its degradation. Immediate reason of soil degradation in agriculture is the non-respecting the principles of good agricultural practice. Giving long-term precedence to production function over remaining ecological ones as well as supporting the land consumption for economy development by governmental bodies are nex...

Sites Availability for Minimalizing and Soil-Conservation Tillage of Soils in Slovakia There is an alternative technology of traditional agricultural soil processing, so called minimalizing cultivation, which is based on reduction of some operating processes used in common. It is possible to perform this technology only in particular soil condition...

The purpose of the paper is to quantify and analyse the potential of agricultural soils in Slovakia regarding their sufficiency, productive, energetic, economic, and environmental parameters. It is necessary to inform the wide community on the irreplaceable position and importance of soil within the frame work of the Earth's ecosystems mainly becau...

Knowing the demands of agricultural crops and knowing the potential of land is the basic prerequisite for an effective utilization of agricultural landscape. The aim of this paper is to point out the possibilities of growing the main kinds of cereals on agricultural land of Slovakia. Since soil is a medium, which synthesizes the properties of lands...

Resulting from our investigation it was found, that expected climate changes in Slovakia by 2090 will influence the possibilities of sugar beet growing. The extension of the potential growing areas will be apparently limited by the soil conditions more than by climate input. Despite of forming suitable conditions for sugar beet growing regarding te...

The work objective is to differentiate rural land of Slovakia with aspect to the possibility of effective sugar beet growing. The differentiation is based on pedo-climatic and production economic parameters. At soil categorization, correlation relationships between the site properties (soil and climatic conditions) and crop biological and agrotechn...

Soil energetic effectivity knowledge through biomas produced by plant call be one of the decisive parameters of their production capability assessment as well as categorization for their potential use. Based on the crops production soil parameters were selected and potential of bioenergy production of Slovak soils was derived. Energetically most pr...

The level of energy potential of plant production in pedological and ecological subregions of Slovakia is affected by objective and subjective factors. Objective factor for the level of energy flows are pedological-climatic and geomorphological conditions. Subjective factors are the choice of the structure of the use of agricultural land fund and t...

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