The Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University and the Monitoring of the impact of the Gabcikovo hydro power structures on individual landscape components

The project 'Monitoring of biota of territory influenced by the construction and operation of the Gabcikovo project' is such a serious project that the co-ordinator role is deservidly prestigious. There is high responsibility from both the scientific and also the non-scientific points of view. Therefore, results have to be thoroughly elaborated and correctly documented. Thoroughness of documentation and final conclusions must be elaborated to the highest level, because the Gabcikovo project, its impact on landscape and the evaluation of this impact, includes not only scientific aspects, but also other, extraordinarily strong, non-scientific aspects. The landscape is such highly organised spatial system that a comprehensive study of it requires a good concept and organised co-operation of numerous scientific disciplines. This is very complicated, because not all disciplines are on the same level of development nor are all working with same level of exact mathematical-physical apparatus and with the same system of precisely defined expressions. Negative, even tragic consequences can occur in using incorrect expressions, especially, when they are used in non-scientific branches, but referring to science. The result is misinformation, which becomes worse, when it is joined to negative argumentation. (author)