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RNDr. Peter Ľuptáčik, PhD.

Moyzesova 11, Košice 041 54
Phone: +421 55 234-1202
Email: peter.luptacik@upjs.sk

Academic degrees
RNDr. - 2003
PhD. - since 2007
Personal data
Born in 1974 in Poprad. Living in Košice. Married.

Career
1998 - 2001 - PhD. student on the Institute of Zoology SAS in Košice.
Since 2001 - employee of Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, P. J. Šafárik University.

Study
Teacher of practices to Zoology of Invertebrates and Zoology of Vertebrates.

Research activities
Ecology and morphology of oribatid mites in above and underground habitats.

Projects
VEGA 1/3267/06: "Diversity and dynamics of soil arthropod communities on microclimate gradient of inverse sites in Slovak Karst". (2006 – 2008; work position: head of the project)
VEGA č. 1/2362/05: „Soil and subterranean arthropod communities (Arthropoda) of orographic unit Čierna hora Mts.“. (Head of project: RNDr. Andrej Mock, PhD.; 2005 – 2007; work position: co-worker)
APVT-20-035802: „Cave fauna diversity of Slova Karst Biospheric Reserve". (Head of project: doc. RNDr. Ľubomír Kováč, CSc.; 2004 – 2006; work position: co-worker)
VEGA č. 1/0441/03: „Arthropod diversity (Arthropoda) of Ardovská Cave and Domica Cave System (Slovak Karst)“. (Head of project: doc. RNDr. Ľubomír Kováč, CSc.; 2003 – 2005; work position: co-worker)
VEGA č. 1/9203/02: „Arthropod diversity (Arthropoda) in chosen public caves of Slovakia (Head of project: RNDr. Andrej Mock, PhD.; 2002 – 2004; work position: co-worker)
VEGA č. 2/7172/20: “Diversity of soil arthropods (Arthropoda) of Slovak karst”. (Head of project: doc. RNDr. Ľubomír Kováč, CSc.; 2000 – 2002; work position: co-worker)

Recent publications
• Kováč, Ľ., Ľuptáčik, P., Miklisová, D., Mati, R., 2001: Soil Oribatida and Collembola communities across a land derpession in an arable field. Eur. J. Soil Biol. 37:285-289.

• Ľuptáčik, P., Miklisová, D., 2002: Soil Oribatida (Acarina) communities across a land depression in an arable field. In: Tajovský, K., Balík, V., Pi?l, V. (eds.): Studies on Soil Fauna in Central Europe. ISB AS CR, České Budějovice: 113-118 Ľuptáčik, P., Miko, L., 2003: Oribatid mites (Acarina, Oribatida) of Slovak caves. Subterranean Biology 1: 25-29

• Kováč, Ľ., Mock, A., Ľuptáčik, P., Košel, V., Fenďa, P., Svatoň, J., Mašán, P., 2005: Terrestrial arthropods of the Domica Cave system and the Ardovská Cave (Slovak Karst) - principal microhabitats and diverzity. Contributions to Soil Zoology in Central Europe I, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, April 14-16, 2003, 1: 61-70

• Ľuptáčik, P., Miklisová, D., 2005: Soil oribatid mite communities (Acari: Oribatida) across a terrain depression in an arble field in the East-Slovakian Lowland. Contributions to Soil Zoology in Central Europe I, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, April 14-16, 2003: 85-90

• Mock, A., Ľuptáčik, P., Fenďa, P., Svatoň, J., Országh, I., Krumpál, M., 2005: Terrestrial arthropods inhabiting caves near Veľký Folkmar (Čierna hora Mts., Slovakia). Contributions to Soil Zoology in Central Europe I, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, April 14-16, 2003, 1: 95-101.