(Photo by E. Stloukal)

The location for the 2nd EDIT Summer School 2009 is the Muránska planina National Park (Slovak: Národný park Muránska planina), in the Slovakian Gemer region around the village of Muràn.  Because of its biodiversity richness, this location has been selected as one of the ATBI+M sites.

Websites for the Slovakia ATBI work :
http://www.atbi.sk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemer

Pictures of Muranska Planina

Background info on the region :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev%C3%BAca_District
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bansk%C3%A1_Bystrica_Region
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mur%C3%A1%C5%88
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mur%C3%A1nska_planina_National_Park

The Gemer region within Slovakia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemer)

http://www.invasivespecies.net/database/species/search.asp?st=sss&sn=&rn=Slovakia&ri=18263&hci=-1&ei=-1&fr=1&sts=&lang=EN

Muranska Planina fauna and flora species list, kindly provided by Eduard Stloukal and Katarina Necpalova of the Department of Zoology, Comenius University, Bratislava.