ISBN online: 978-80-7701-014-6 | DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-014-6

MORAVSKÝ KRAS POD MIKROSKOPEM

Kritický Katalog Výstavy

Ivo Pavlík, Vít Ulmann, Vlastislav Káňa

Natural science research in the Moravian Karst includes many fields, such as geology, zoology and botany, ecology, and others. In the last 10 years, attention has been focused on the microbiological and, above all, bacteriological study of water and sediments, on the environment of forests, meadows and, above all, on the study of cave environments. The role of bacteria in the system of karst nature more or less influenced by humans was only generally known in the Moravian Karst. The life of these microscopic organisms remained largely unknown, especially in the cave environment. A research team led by Professor Ivo Pavlík, consisting of experts from the Mendel University in Brno, the Public Health Institute Ostrava, the Museum Blanenska and other institutions, decided to fill this gap. They chose Mycobacterium as the indicator microorganism. Also, the research of other small inhabitants of the karst landscape cannot be done without a microscope or at least a magnifying glass. For example, the tiny bones of bats and other mammals are evidence of climate and landscape changes in the past. Layers of bat guano, deposits of river sediments underground, or earthworms living in it; all these are sources of knowledge for us about the mechanism by which the nature of the Moravian Karst works. You too can now experience what it‘s like to immerse yourself through the eyepiece of a microscope and various modern laboratory methods into the world of those really small organisms that so significantly influence the life of nature in the Moravian Karst and in some cases our life as well.

Keywords: krasové jeskyně, speleologie; speleopotápění, ekologie, archeologie, paleontologie, kořenové stalagmity, radiokarbonové datování, chiropterologie, bakteriologie, mikrobiologie; mykologie; vodní sediment; demografie; suburbanizace, geografie, hydrologie, skapová voda, aluviální voda, freatická voda, znečištění krasového prostředí, čistírna odpadních vod, vodní biofilm, epidemiologie, Mycobacterium, tuberkulóza, mykobakterióza, netuberkulózní mykobakterie, indikátorové bakterie; psychrofilní mykobakterie; mezofilní mykobakterie, termofilní mykobakterie, diagnostika mykobakteriálních infekcí, světelná mikroskopie, elektronová mikroskopie, DNA, qPCR, MALDI, počítačová tomografie, rentgenologické vyšetření, netopýr, guáno, bezobratlí živočichové, žížaly, žížalince, prach, GIS, bezpečnost potravin, prevence infekcí, vakcinace BCG, speleoterapie

1. edition, online: 2024, publisher: Mendelova univerzita v Brně