Clouded apollo is a butterfly species which prefers grazed bright forests. If the edge of a forest is grazed by animals, it is kept open without thorny bushes and branches of the trees start in the height where animals could not reach them anymore. When there is no...
Variety of nature in Devín could be explained by the fact that the intersection of migration corridors is concerned here. Such corridors are very important in the European context. Animals migrating from the south to the north had always been passing this place. They...
From the ecology point of view, the interglacial periods are short anomalies only. Whereas the ice ages lasted tens of thousands of years, interglacial periods were very short – just a few thousand years. It happened that the human civilization taking advantages of...
We can see a forest on the slopes of Devínska Kobyla, but it does not belong there. It was artificially planted on the rocky slopes at the time of socialism since the slopes were considered ugly and non-productive. At those times, exotic woody plants – Robinia...