Ptice Srbije u zbirkama Narodnog muzeja Češke Republike

The centipede collection in the National Museum in Prague contains type material of 16 taxa (14 species and two subspecies), of which 15 were described by Luděk J. Dobroruka and one by Karl W. Verhoeff: Allothereuawilsonae Dobroruka, 1979; Chinobiusalenae Dobroruka, 1980; Lithobiuscorrigendus Dobroruka, 1988; Lithobiuscreticus Dobroruka, 1977; Lithobiuserythrocephalusmohelensis Dobroruka, 1959; Lithobiusevae Dobroruka, 1958; Lithobiusmagurensis Dobroruka, 1971; Lithobiuspurkynei Dobroruka, 1957; Lithobiustatricus Dobroruka, 1958; Lithobiustatricusmonounguis Dobroruka, 1958; Monotarsobiushomolaci Dobroruka, 1971; Monotarsobiuskrali Dobroruka, 1979; Pachymeriumdilottiae Dobroruka, 1976; Pachymeriumhanzaki Dobroruka, 1976; Scolopendraaztecorum Verhoeff, 1934 and Strigamiaolympica Dobroruka, 1977. Of these 16 taxa, five were described from the Czech Republic, three from Slovakia and eight from other countries (Greece, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Nepal, Russia and Uzbekistan). The eight taxa described from the Czech and Slovak Republics are now considered as junior synonyms but the eight taxa described from the other countries are still valid.

Key structural factors and their thresholds for promoting bird diversity in spruce-dominated production forests of central Europe

Winter density and habitat preferences of three declining granivorous farmland birds: The importance of the keeping of poultry and dairy farms

The paper is related to a research project focused on tools for an evaluation and preservation of the historical value and function of arch and vaulted road bridges. It deals with the beginning of use of concrete vaulted and arch bridges in the area of the Czech Republic from the first structures built at the end of the 19th century up to the time just before the WWII. The paper includes examples of built structures as well as a general summary and development of the used technical solutions. Important part of the paper is a proposal of criterions for evaluation of their structural and historical value.

Total mercury and mercury species in birds and fish in an aquatic ecosystem in the Czech Republic

A historical collection of late Cretaceous plant fossils from Lower Silesia, comprising about 520 specimens, now located at the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, and formerly in possession of the Prussian Geological Survey, has recently been traced back to its origins. Today this collection can be used as a nucleus to develop future scientific research projects. Due to the historical background of the specimens and the scattered locations of additional material from various geologic sites, such projects may have to be realised as a cooperative effort between scientists from several institutions of the Central European countries that were historically involved, namely the Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland.

The building of the National Museum in Prague is a part of the historical heritage of the Czech Republic. Very huge reconstruction and maintenance of whole building was ongoing during the last decade. Special emphasis was devoted to every detail of the interior as well as the facade elements to keep the historical value of the building adding modern architectural elements like transport glass flooring and balustrades. This paper deals with the project of the glass flooring in total area about 200m2 placed directly in the main tower of the building as a representative place with nice view to a historical parts of the city. The tower is a part of the main Pantheon with historical coloured glass elements visible from the inside of the building, therefore, glass flooring was the only possible solution to open this area for people by keeping the daylight from the top of the Pantheon.

Impact of agricultural landscape structure on the patterns of bird species diversity at a regional scale

The main goal of this paper is to examine impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on the attendance of selected UNESCO monuments in the Czech Republic. This is the first step of a more extensive research focused on methodological recommendations of the effects the covid-19 pandemic on tourism. The authors present a study focused on the number of visitors to selected monuments in comparison between 2019 and 2021. The mechanism of protection, popularization and development of UNESCO cultural heritage in the Czech Republic is investigated. The features of formation and improvement of management mechanisms in this area of socio-cultural relations are clarified. The procedure for including candidate sites in the World Heritage list has been investigated. The main UNESCO conventions in the field of culture are considered and attention is drawn to their key provisions. The main problems in the legislative regulation of the preservation and management of cultural and natural heritage in the Czech Republic are analyzed. It is established that cooperation with UNESCO significantly affects the foreign policy of the world's countries. At the end is possible to find a set of three areas of recommendations, which will be examined in more detail in the next stages. The results confirmed that the most visited UNESCO monuments heritage after the covid-19 pandemic: Prague (734 thousand people); Spa triangle: Františkovy Lázně, Karlovy Vary, Mariánské Lázně (559 thousand people); Lednice-Valtice area (311 thousand people) and Kroměříž (162 thousand people). Their attractiveness is due to the high level of nature protection, the conservation status of the heritage fund and their historical value.

Visual and passive acoustic observations of blue whale trios from two distinct populations

Capsule Expert‐based classification of bird species as habitat specialists and as generalists agrees with objective measures of species’ habitat requirements based on large‐scale monitoring data. Aims To compare habitat specialization of 137 common bird species breeding in the Czech Republic using three different measures and to test their relationships to species’ abundance and habitat associations. Methods Data on bird abundance and surveyed habitats were collected through a standardized monitoring scheme of common breeding species in the Czech Republic. From these data we calculated a quantitative species specialization index (SSI). Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) was applied to calculate species’ habitat niche breadth and the level of association of each species to the main habitats. A panel of 11 local bird experts classified each species as habitat generalist or habitat specialist. Results Species classified as habitat specialists by expert opinion showed higher habitat specialization according to the SSI, as well as according to CCA‐based habitat niche breadth. These species were also more closely associated with one of the main habitat types. These relationships were significant even after controlling for abundance. Conclusions As expert opinion accords with the level of species’ habitat specialization expressed using two quantitative objective measures, we suggest that these characteristics reflect real interspecific variation in the breadth of habitat requirements in birds. Interspecific differences in habitat specialization are not caused solely by the variability in abundance among species.

This study aims to analyze the costs and benefits of the Breksi Cliff which is the former limestone mine in Yogyakarta. The type of data used in this study is primary data. The research is conducted by observation, library research, and in-depth interviews. The object of the research is the Breksi Cliff. The limestone mining activities have been started since the 1980s and now the quality of the limestone is also not suitable for mining and has no economic value. So that local residents creatively create the former limestone mining into a tourist attraction. The Breksi Cliff is a form of creative reclamation in the form of a natural museum that has historical value. The Breksi Cliff offers limestone relief which can also be used as an educational tour. Based on the estimated calculation of income per day if a normal day is IDR10,000,000, then at the weekend of IDR20,500,000, and in the holiday season reaches IDR51,250,000. However, there is no related regulation on retribution. Sleman District Government explained that until now there are no rules that regulate the attractions managed by citizens. It is expected that the Sleman Regency Government will immediately make regulations related to tourist attractions managed by citizens. The retribution can also increase Regional Original Revenue (PADesa). Then infrastructure improvements should be considered more for the safety and comfort of tourists. Key words Tourism, Reclamation, Mining, Cost and Benefit Analysis.

Antibodies to Arboviruses in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) in the Czech Republic

The National Taiwan Museum is the only exhibition venue in the country that not only has widely preserved its original historicist form, but continues to fulfill its initial function as an exhibition venue. The Japanese colonial government in Taiwan constructed this building in 1915 to commemorate Japan’s fourth Viceroy, Gentaro Kodama (1852–1906), and to honor the Chief Civil Administrator, Shinpei Goto (1857–1929). The Taiwan Viceroy’s Office Museum (臺灣總督府博物館), as it was then called, was founded by the Japanese government as a museum of natural history. The site chosen was linked by a straight visual axis with the Taipei Railway Station, both serving as impressive landmarks within the urban fabric of early-20th-century Taipei. Displaying a historicist mixture of styles, the symmetrical building, which is composed of one central block with a dome on top and two connecting wings with a square pavilion at each end, was obviously influenced by models of Western architecture. The museum’s representative location and its neo-classical facade show that by creating such a building, the Japanese colonial government tried to legitimize its regime in Taiwan by presenting a progressive and civilized image toward the world. Albeit its historical value, substantial analysis of the building’s form and structure has not yet been undertaken. In-depth research into concrete sources stemming from Western architecture is also lacking. In order to better understand the building’s structure and to find the sources, which might have influenced its final form, the present thesis will, initially, clarify the historical background of the project, which implies an analysis of written sources from the time. Special attention will be paid to the question, which museum buildings architect Ichiro Nomura (1868–1942) had possibly seen during a journey undertaken to the West, and to London and New York, in particular, and which of these could have been models for the Taiwan Viceroy’s Office Museum. Finally, the aspect of commemorating two highly decorated dignitaries of the Japanese colonial government in the museum and the respective hero cult will be taken into account. The origins of a museum as memorial will be under close scrutiny.

In 2018 the National Museum Prague (NMP) is celebrating its 200th anniversary. Today the Museum is facing its most valuable development: brand new permanent exhibitions. Our monumental historic building was constructed in 1891 in the heart of Prague. After more than one hundred years we had to close the building and remove all exhibitions which were older than 40 years. The building has about 8,000m2 and is divided into two parts. One belongs to our Natural History Museum (NHM) collections with Zoology, Palaeontology, Mineralogy, Botany and Mycology exhibitions. Our new natural history galleries will open in autumn 2019. Housed all on one floor, the galleries will be full of animals like invertebrates, fishes, reptiles, birds and mammals. The second floor will focus on palaeontology spanning more than 500 million years of evolution covering the geographical area of the modern Czech Republic. At the beginning we had to ask ourselves a few simple questions. How do we develop permanent exhibitions that will last for decades? Is excluding modern technology the right thing to do? Should we focus on a more informative/education style or should the interpretation be more populist? And what about the display cases? Should we use old repaired ones or modern cases? It would be great to have answers to all these questions but we still have to deal with the vision and constraints of our curators, collections, budget, legislation, technology and construction of the building. The project has no similar equivalent in the history of the Czech Republic so it was an extraordinary challenge to create our own process of developments with ongoing improvements. Through these developments we have formed new cooperation with technological partners and the creative industries. We are defining a new modern approach to the development and preparation of exhibitions in the Czech Republic. Now that we have reached the half way point towards our vision, it is a good time to report on progress.