1. Patterns in clonal traits in semi-dry calcareous grasslands in SloveniaSonja Škornik, Nataša Pipenbaher, 2025, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Due to the widespread importance of clonality in plants, investigating the mechanisms by which clonality-related traits are associated with community organization is crucial for a functional understanding of vegetation. In this study, the patterns in clonality and other life-history traits in a series of species-rich semi-dry grasslands (alliance Bromion erecti, order Brometalia erecti, class Festuco-Brometea) in the central-European region of Slovenia, all assigned to the same EUNIS (Middle European Bromus erectus semi-dry grasslands, code R1A32) and Natura 2000 habitat type [Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia), code 6210 (important orchid sites)] were studied. The aims of this research were (i) to assess the diversity of clonal growth organs (CGOs) and other clonal traits in semi-dry grasslands and (ii) determine differences in distribution of clonal growth organs and other clonal traits in three plant communities (associations). Data from 224 vegetation plots (phytosociological relevés) with 247 species and nine plant traits of grassland species were used. This revealed that more than half of the plant species were clonal. Most common clonal growth organs (CGOs) were perennial splitting main root (produced by non-clonal plants), epigeogenous rhizomes and hypogeogenous rhizomes. For each plot, the community weighted mean (CWM) of all plant traits was calculated to determine differences between the three grassland types. Soil moisture and productivity seem to be the key factors associated with differences in clonal growth in the associations studied. Clonal tussock plants with rhizomes, and species with a rich bud bank and a high number of clonal offspring were abundant in grasslands with deep soils and mesic conditions (Onobrychido-Brometum association). Grasslands on stony soils over fissured limestone or dolomite and with more xeric conditions were characterized by rosette clonal plants with hypogeogenous rhizomes (Bromo-Danthonietum calycinae) and/or non-clonal plants with splitting main root (Scabioso hladnikianae-Caricetum humilis). The diversity and characteristics of clonality-related traits indicate that clonal growth is an essential feature of these species-rich grasslands. Importantly, the results of this study indicate that in order to support the characteristic species and functional composition of all types of grassland, management plans for semi-dry grassland habitats in the area studied need to be carried out at a finer scale (e.g. at the level of associations) than the level of EUNIS and Natura 2000 habitat types.
Ključne besede: community assembly, community weighted mean, Festuco Brometea, functional traits, high nature value habitats, species coexistence
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2. Assessing the potential of urban orchards, berry bushes, and apiaries for local food production and carbon mitigation in a small European CityRok Kamnik, 2025, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: With the growing concentration of populations in urban centres, ensuring resilient and sustainable food systems has become a critical priority. Disruptions in food supply chains, particularly in small cities with limited logistical flexibility, can severely compromise food availability. In response, the utilisation of urban green spaces for food production has been increasingly recognised as a viable strategy to enhance local self-sufficiency while contributing to broader environmental goals. This study evaluated the potential for integrating urban orchards, berry bushes, and apiaries within the public green spaces of Maribor, a small Slovenian city with a total area of 40 km². Emphasis was placed on publicly owned or publicly accessible land—including municipal holdings, stateowned plots, and land managed by public companies—that remains underutilised yet suitable for edible landscaping. Using spatial analysis conducted through QGis, available green space was quantified and assessed for suitability in supporting fruit trees, edible shrubs, and beekeeping installations. Estimates were then derived for the number of fruit and berry seedlings that could be planted, the volume of potential fruit and honey yields, and the corresponding contribution to carbon dioxide reduction through enhanced urban vegetation and decreased food transport dependency. The results indicate that even fragmented and seemingly marginal green areas possess significant aggregate potential for improving local food resilience, fostering community engagement, and delivering measurable carbon mitigation benefits. Furthermore, urban food forests and community orchards were identified as multifunctional landscape interventions that not only enhance food security but also improve urban biodiversity, air quality, and residents’ mental well-being. These findings align with the European Union’s objectives for urban ecosystem efficiency and carbon neutrality by 2050 and underscore the importance of integrating edible green infrastructure into urban planning frameworks. The study contributes to the growing body of evidence supporting the role of decentralised, nature-based solutions in urban sustainability transitions.
Ključne besede: urban green infrastructure, urban orchards, edible landscaping, community food forests, local food resilience, urban apiaries, GIS-based spatial analysis
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3. Are health literacy and physical literacy independent concepts? A gender-stratified analysis in medical school students from CroatiaMarijana Geets Kesic, Mia Perić, Barbara Gilić, Marko Manojlovic, Patrik Drid, Toni Modric, Željka Znidaric, Nataša Zenić, Aleksander Pajtler, 2022, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Health literacy (HL) and physical literacy (PL) are concepts responsible for achieving and
maintaining positive health behaviors. This study aimed to investigate gender-specific associations:
(i) between PL and HL; and (ii) among HL, PL, and body composition. We observed 253 students
attending health-area high schools from southern Croatia (181 girls; 16.9 ± 1.4 years). HL was
assessed by the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire, PL by the PLAYself questionnaire,
and body composition by bioimpedance analysis. The t-test was used to assess the differences
between genders, and Pearson’s correlation coefficients were calculated to establish the associations
between variables. The results showed a similar level of HL (t-test = 0.2; p = 0.83) and PL (t-test = 0.01;
p = 0.99) in boys and girls. Significant but small correlations were identified between HL and PL only
in the girls (<10% of common variance). The body composition indices were significantly correlated
with PL only in the boys (15–20% of common variance). Our research highlights the necessity of the
independent evaluation of HL and PL in adolescence. Further studies evaluating other indices of
health status in relation to PL and HL are warranted.
Ključne besede: health behavior, knowledge translation, public health, community-engaged research, youth, body build
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4. A link between species abundance and plant strategies for semi-natural dry grasslandsNataša Pipenbaher, 2024, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Due of the potential of species to determine ecosystem properties, it is important to understand how species abundance influences community assembly. Using vegetation surveys on 35 dry grasslands in north-east Slovenia, we defined dominant (8) and subordinate (61) plant species. They were compared on 14 traits to test for differences in community-weighted mean (CWM) and functional diversity (FD). We found that dominants and subordinates differed strongly in their functional traits. Dominants showed higher leaf dry matter content and a more pronounced stress tolerance strategy and were all clonal with a large proportion of species with rhizomes and a rich bud bank, while other species showed a higher specific leaf area, a longer flowering period and more ruderals. For most traits, FD was higher in subordinates. Our results suggest that dominants drive community structure by limited susceptibility to non-competitive processes. Dominants may have positive effects on subordinates by mitigating environmental stressors. Subordinates are able to assemble together by being dissimilar and use different fine-scale niches that are engineered and homogenised by dominants. Our results show that there are fundamental differences in the relative importance of ecological processes between dominant and subordinate plants in species-rich grasslands, which is also important for their conservational management.
Ključne besede: species coexistence, biodiversity, community assembly, species dominance, subordinate species, Festuco-Brometea, plant functional traits, community structure
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5. Ex situ bioremediation of diesel fuel-contaminated soil in two different climatesTjaša Cenčič, Tinkara Mastnak, Marta Svoljšak, Matjaž Finšgar, 2023, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: The petroleum industry is often faced with accidental spills and discharges that pollute valuable natural resources such as soil. The purpose of this study was to assess bioremediation potential of an on-site landfarming unit (LU), a highly economical solution that complies with the zero-waste policy, for bioremediation of the contaminated soil after an actual diesel fuel leakage in a fuel depot. The first aim was to evaluate the effects of different climates on hydrocarbon bioremediation. For this reason, a part of the contaminated soil was moved from the initial location with a sub-Mediterranean climate to an LU at another location with a temperate continental climate. Our results demonstrated that remediation in sub-Mediterranean climate is less effective than the remediation in a temperate continental climate. The second aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of different plant species on the microbial population during bioremediation. For that purpose, 365-day monitoring of phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) was performed. Our results support the hypothesis that plant-assisted bioremediation can diminish toxic effects of diesel-polluted soil and that the changes in plant species during bioremediation cause changes in the microbial population.
Ključne besede: bioremediation, climatic effect, contamined soil, microbial community, petroleum hydrocarbons
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6. Improved relation extraction through key phrase identification using community detection on dependency treesShuang Liu, Xunqin Chen, Jiana Meng, Niko Lukač, 2025, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: A method for extracting relations from sentences by utilizing their dependency trees to identify key phrases is presented in this paper. Dependency trees are commonly used in natural language processing to represent the grammatical structure of a sentence, and this approach builds upon this representation to extract meaningful relations between phrases. Identifying key phrases is crucial in relation extraction as they often indicate the entities and actions involved in a relation. The method uses community detection algorithms on the dependency tree to identify groups of related words that form key phrases, such as subject-verb-object structures. The experiments on the Semeval-2010 task8 dataset and the TACRED dataset demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing baseline methods.
Ključne besede: community detection algorithms, dependency trees, relation extraction
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7. Plant trait composition in lowland calcareous and acidic semi-dry grasslandsSonja Škornik, 2025, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: European semi-dry grasslands are habitats of high conservation value. Therefore, research into the mechanisms of community assembly is important for their effective management. Using data from 76 vegetation plots of calcareous and acidic semi-dry grasslands in continental Slovenia, the author analysed the composition of plant traits, focusing on less studied belowground traits. Community-weighted means were calculated for nine plant functional traits: life form, growth form, clonal growth organ (CGO) type, persistence of connection in CGO, number of clonal offspring shoots, lateral spreading distance, role of CGO, bud bank, CSR strategy. The results showed that both grassland communities were characterized by high local persistence (perennial plants with long-lived connections between ramets). Acidic grasslands had more species with rosettes, rhizomes and stress-tolerators, indicating more stressful conditions, probably due to low pH. Mesic grassland species with numerous stolons and longer lateral spread were also characteristic of acidic grasslands. Calcareous grasslands hosted more competitors, plants with leafy stems and plants with perennial main roots. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of grassland processes and provides a basis for future investigations of belowground plant traits and their function.
Ključne besede: biodiversity, community assembly, permanent grassland, plant traits, ecosystem functions, Natura 2000, Festuco-Brometea
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8. Academic general practice/family medicine in times of COVID-19 - Perspective of WONCA EuropeAdam Windak, Thomas Frese, Eva Hummers-Pradier, Zalika Klemenc-Ketiš, Sonia Tsukagoshi, Josep Vilaseca, Shlomo Vinker, Mehmet Ungan, 2020, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: COVID-19 outbreak has significantly changed all aspects of general practice in Europe. This art-icle focuses on the academic challenges for the discipline, mainly in the field of education,research, and quality assurance. The efforts of the European Region of the World Organisationof National Colleges, Academies, and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/FamilyPhysicians (WONCA Europe) to support academic sustainability of the discipline in the time ofpandemic are presented. Medical education was affected by the pandemic, threatening both itsproductivity and quality. Emerging new educational methods might be promising, but theresults of their rapid implementation remain uncertain. A relatively small number of publicationsrelated to COVID-19 and general practice is available in the medical literature. There is a short-age of original data from general practice settings. This contrasts with the crucial role of GPs infighting a pandemic. COVID-19 outbreak has opened widely new research areas, which shouldbe explored by GPs. Maintaining the quality of care and safety of all patients during the COVID-19 pandemic is the utmost priority. Many of them suffer from poor access or inadequate man-agement of their problems. Rapid implementation of telemedicine brought both threats andopportunities. The COVID-19 pandemic also challenged doctors' safety and well-being. Theseaspects will require discussion and remedy to prevent deterioration of the quality of primarycare. WONCA Europe is making a multi-faceted effort to support GPs in difficult times of thepandemic. It is ready to support future efforts to uphold the integrity of family medicine as anacademic discipline.
Ključne besede: infectious diseases, quality of care, public health, community medicine, health care organisation, management, medical education
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9. Long-term impact of community psychiatric care on quality of life amongst people living with schizophrenia : a systematic reviewJožica Černe Kolarič, Anja Plemenitaš Ilješ, Darja Kraner, Vida Gönc, Mateja Lorber, Nataša Mlinar Reljić, Zvonka Fekonja, Sergej Kmetec, 2024, pregledni znanstveni članek Opis: The review examines the long-term impact of community psychiatric care on improving the quality of life of people with schizophrenia. It addresses the global burden of this disorder and the need for effective community-based care strategies. A systematic literature search was conducted in databases such as CINAHL, Medline, Web of Science, Sage and ScienceDirect, with the search lasting until March 2024 and following the PRISMA guidelines. The inclusion criteria targeted studies that addressed the long-term effects of community mental health care for people aged 18 years and older with schizophrenia and included both quantitative and qualitative research designs. Studies unrelated to the research question or with significant methodological flaws were excluded. The risk of bias was assessed using GRADE and GRADECERqual, in addition to critical appraisal using the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) checklists. Independent screening and data extraction was performed, with results summarised by thematic analysis. In total, 11 studies met the inclusion criteria and included cross-sectional, cohort, qualitative and randomised controlled trial designs. The results showed that community psychiatric care significantly improves the quality of life, well-being and social integration of people with schizophrenia. Effective interventions identified include psychoeducation, cognitive behavioural therapy, social skills training and individualised care plans. However, challenges such as limited resources, labour shortages and social stigma, particularly in low-income neighbourhoods, were also identified. This study highlights the importance of continuous, personalised, multidisciplinary community-based care for sustainable mental health outcomes. Further research is recommended to investigate the long-term impact and strategies to overcome implementation challenges.
Ključne besede: schizophrenia, quality of life, community, psychiatric care, patient, systematic review
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10. Occupations and their impact on the spreading of COVID-19 in urban communitiesMarian-Gabriel Hâncean, Jürgen Lerner, Matjaž Perc, Iulian Oană, David-Andrei Bunaciu, Adelina Alexandra Stoica, Maria Cristina Ghiţǎ, 2022, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: The current pandemic has disproportionally afected the workforce. To improve our understanding of the role that occupations play in the transmission of COVID-19, we analyse real-world network data that were collected in Bucharest between August 1st and October 31st 2020. The data record sex, age, and occupation of 6895 patients and the 13,272 people they have interacted with, thus providing a social network from an urban setting through which COVID-19 has spread. Quite remarkably, we fnd that medical occupations have no signifcant efect on the spread of the virus. Instead, we fnd common transmission chains to start with infected individuals who hold jobs in the private sector and are connected with non-active alters, such as spouses, siblings, or elderly relatives. We use relational hyperevent models to assess the most likely homophily and network efects in the community transmission. We detect homophily with respect to age and anti-homophily with respect to sex and employability. We note that, although additional data would be welcomed to perform more in-depth network analyses, our fndings may help public authorities better target under-performing vaccination campaigns.
Ključne besede: occupation, urban community, spreading of disease, covid-19
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