Senior Researcher
Stankevičius, Ž., Zinkutė, R., Suzdalev, S., Gedminienė, L., Baužienė, I., Taraškevčius, R. 2023. Search for the substantiation of reasonable native elemental background values and reference variables in topsoil on glaciogenic and postglacial deposits in a Vilnius peri-urban area. Minerals, 13 (12): art. no. 1513. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13121513
Šatavičė, E., Skridlaitė, G ., Grigoravičiūtė-Puronienė, I., Kareiva, A., Selskienė, A., Suzdalev, S., Žaludienė, G., Taraškevičius, R . 2022. Corded ware and contemporary hunter-gatherer pottery from Southeast Lithuania: Technological insights through geochemical and mineralogical approaches. Minerals, 12 (8): art. no. 1006. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12081006
Vaičiulytė, V., Ložienė, K., Taraškevičius, R. 2022. Impact of edaphic and climatic factors on Thymus pulegioides essential oil composition and potential prevalence of chemotypes. Plants, 11 (19): art. no. 2536. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11192536
Petrauskienė, A., Iršėnaitė, R., Taraškevičius, R., Matulevičiūtė, D., Motiejūnaitė, J. (2022) Significant impact of allochthonous nutrient loads on microarthropods in forest soils. Forest Systems, 31 (2): art. no. e015. https://doi.org/10.5424/fs/2022312-19008
Jurgelėnė, Ž., Montvydienė, D., Stakėnas, S., Poviliūnas, J., Račkauskas, S., Taraškevičius, R., Skrodenytė-Arbačiauskienė, V., Kazlauskienė, N. (2022) Impact evaluation of marking Salmo trutta with Alizarin Red S produced by different manufacturers. Aquatic Toxicology, 242: art. no. 106051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2021.106051
Motiejūnaitė, J., Kačergius, A., Kasparavičius, J., Taraškevičius, R., Matulevičiūtė, D., Iršėnaitė, R. (2021) Response of ectomycorrhizal and other Pinus sylvestris root-associated fungi to the load of allochthonous material from a great cormorant colony. Mycorrhiza, 31 (4): 471–481. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-021-01034-5
Bliujienė, A., Peseckas, K., Šapolaitė, J., Ežerinskis, Z., Bagdzevičienė, J., Babenskas, E., Taraškevičius, R., Suzdalev, S., Vybernaitė-Lubienė, I., Pabedinskas, A., Butkus, L., Petrauskas, G. (2021) Manufacture of the well-known central and northeastern European eye fibulae: previously unknown tricks of the trade. Radiocarbon, 63 (5): 1369–1386. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2021.69
Rapalis, P., Zinkutė, R., Lazareva, N., Suzdalev, S., Taraškevičius, R. (2021) Geochemistry of the dust collected by passive samplers as a tool for search of pollution sources: the case of Klaipeda Port, Lithuania. Applied Sciences, 11 (23): art. no. 11157. https://doi.org/10.3390/app112311157
Montvydienė, D., Šulčius, S., Jurgelėnė, Ž., Makaras, T., Kalcienė, V., Taraškevičius, R., Kazlauskas, M., Kazlauskienė, N. (2020) Contrasting ecotoxic effects of landfill leachate and cyanobacterial biomass on aquatic organisms. Water Air and Soil Pollution, 231 (7): art. no. 323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-020-04684-x
Zinkutė, R., Taraškevičius, R., Jankauskaitė, M., Kazakauskas, V., Stankevičius, Ž. (2020) Influence of site-classification approach on geochemical background values. Open Chemistry, 18 (1): 1391–1411. https://doi.org/10.1515/chem-2020-0177
Šiukšta, R., Bondzinskaitė, S., Kleizaitė, V., Žvingila, D., Taraškevičius, R., Mockeliūnas, L., Stapulionytė, A., Mak, K.,Čėsnienė, T. (2019) Response of Tradescantia plants to oxidative stress induced by heavy metal pollution of soils from industrial areas. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 26 (1): 44-61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-3224-3
Stančikaitė, M., Gedminienė, L., Edvardsson, J., Stoffel, M., Corona, C., Gryguc, G., Uogintas, D., Zinkutė, R., Skuratovič, Ž., Taraškevičius, R. (2019) Holocene vegetation and hydroclimatic dynamics in SE Lithuania – Implications from a multi-proxy study of the Cepkeliai bog. Quaternary International. 501: 219-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.08.039
Gedminienė, L., Šiliauskas, L., Skuratovič, Z., Taraškevičius, R., Zinkutė, R., Kazbaris, M., Ežerinskis, Ž., Šapolaitė, J., Gastevičienė, N., Šeirienė, V., Stančikaitė, M. (2019) The Lateglacial-Early Holocene dynamics of the sedimentation environment based on the multi-proxy abiotic study of Lieporiai palaeolake, Northern Lithuania. Baltica. 32 (1): 63-77. https://doi.org/10.5200/baltica.2019.1.8
Iršėnaitė, R., Arslanova, T., Kasparavičius, J., Kutorga, E., Markovskaja, S., Matulevičiūtė, D., Taraškevičius, R., Motiejūnaitė, J. (2019) Effects of a great cormorant colony on wood-inhabiting fungal communities in a coastal Scots pine forest. Fungal Ecology. 41: 82-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2019.03.010
Taraškevičius, R., Kazakauskas, V., Sarcevičius, S., Zinkutė, R., Suzdalev, S. (2019) Case study of geochemical clustering as a tool for tracing sources of clays for archaeological and modern bricks. Baltica. 32 (2): 139-155. https://doi.org/10.5200/baltica.2019.2.2
Matulevičiūtė, D., Motiejūnaitė, J., Uogintas, D., Taraškevičius, R., Dagys, M., Rašomavičius, V. (2018) Decline of a protected coastal pine forest under impact of a colony of great cormorants and the rate of vegetation change under ornithogenic influence. Silva Fennica. 52 (2): art. no. 7699. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.7699
Jasiulionis, M., Balčiauskas, L., Balčiauskienė, L., Taraškevičius, R. (2018) Accumulation of chemical elements in yellow-necked mice under a colony of great cormorants. Chemosphere. 213: 156-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.09.025
Taraškevičius, R ., Zinkutė, R., Gedminienė, L., Stankevičius, Z. (2018) Hair geochemical composition of children from Vilnius kindergartens as an indicator of environmental conditions. Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 40 (5): 1817-1840. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-017-9977-7
Vaičiulytė, V., Ložienė, K., Taraškevičius, R., Butkienė, R. (2017) Variation of essential oil composition of Thymus pulegioides in relation to soil chemistry. Industrial Crops and Products. 95: 422-433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2016.10.052
Zinkutė, R., Taraškevičius, R., Jankauskaitė, M., Stankevičius, Z. (2017) Methodological alternatives for calculation of enrichment factors used for assessment of topsoil contamination. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 17 (2): 440-452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-016-1549-4
Česnienė, T., Kleizaitė, V., Bondzinskaitė, S., Taraškevičius, R., Žvingila, D., Šiukšta, R., Rančelis, V. (2017) Metal bioaccumulation and mutagenesis in a Tradescantia clone following long-term exposure to soils from urban industrial areas and closed landfills. Mutation Research-Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis. 823: 65-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mrgentox.2017.09.004
Marčiulionienė, D., Lukšienė, B., Montvydienė, D., Jefanova, O., Mažeika, J., Taraškevičius, R., Stakėnienė, R., Petrošius, R., Maceika, E., Tarasiuk, N., Žukauskaitė, Z., Kazakevičiūtė, L., Volkova, M. (2017) Cs-137 and plutonium isotopes accumulation/retention in bottom sediments and soil in Lithuania: A case study of the activity concentration of anthropogenic radionuclides and their provenance before the start of operation of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 178: 253-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.07.024
Taraškevičius, R., Motiejūnaitė, J., Zinkutė, R., Eigminienė, A., Gedminienė, L., Stankevičius, Z. (2017) Similarities and differences in geochemical distribution patterns in epiphytic lichens and topsoils from kindergarten grounds in Vilnius. Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 183: 152-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2017.08.013
Taraškevičius R., Radžiūnienė J., Zinkutė R., Petrauskienė A., Jankauskaitė M. (2016) Conditions to obtain results analysing a small amount of plant material by EDXRF. Chemija. 27 (2): 114-122.
Zinkutė, R., Baltrūnas, V., Taraškevičius, R., Karmaza, B., Stakėnienė, R., Šeirienė, V., Kisielienė, D. (2015) Quaternary interglacial sediments as possible natural sources of arsenic and molybdenum anomalies in stream sediments in Lithuania. Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management. 23 (1): 60-70. https://doi.org/10.3846/16486897.2014.926909
Zinkutė R., Baužienė I., Dilys K., Mažeika J., Taminskas J., Taraškevičius R. (2015) Recent Lithuanian peri-urban ombrotrophic bog records: indices derived from the contents of lead, zinc, copper and nickel. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis. 15 (4): 293-318. https://doi.org/10.1144/geochem2013-245
Marčiulionienė E.D., Montvydienė D., Svecevičius G., Taraškevičius R., Kazlauskienė N., Jefanova O. (2015) Heavy metal metal migration from closed landfill in the water, bottom sediments and macrophytes of neighboring aquatic ecosystem. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin. 24 (10): 3371-3380.
Klemkaitė, K., Žilinskas, A., Taraškevičius, R., Khinsky, A., Kareiva, A. (2014) Preparation of Mg/Al layered double hydroxide (LDH) with structurally embedded molybdate ions and application as a catalyst for the synthesis of 2-adamantylidene(phenyl)amine schiff base. Polyhedron. 68: 340-345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2013.11.009
Motiejūnaitė, J., Iršėnaitė, R., Adamonytė, G., Dagys, M., Taraškevičius, R., Matulevičiūtė, D., Koreivienė, J. (2014) Pine forest lichens under eutrophication generated by a great cormorant colony. Lichenologist. 46 (2): 213-228. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282913000820
Čėsnienė, T., Kleizaitė, V., Rančelis, V., Žvingila, D., Švabauskas, K., Taraškevičius, R. (2014) Use of tradescantia clone 4430 for direct long-term soil mutagenicity studies. Mutation Research-Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis [elektroninis išteklius]. 768: 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mrgentox.2013.12.010
Baltrūnas, V., Zinkutė, R., Šeirienė, V., Katinas, V., Karmaza, B., Kisielienė, D., Taraškevičius, R., Lagunavičienė, L. (2013) Sedimentary environment changes during the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition as recorded by the Daumantai sections in Lithuania. Geological quarterly. 57 (1): 45–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.7306/gq.1076
Baltrūnas, V., Šeirienė, V., Molodkov, A., Zinkutė, R., Katinas, V., Karmaza, B., Kisielienė, D., Petrošius, R., Taraškevičius, R., Piličiauskas, G., Schmölcke, U., Heinrich, D. (2013) Depositional environment and climate changes during the late Pleistocene as recorded by the Netiesos section in southern Lithuania. Quaternary international. 292: 136–149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.11.038
Taraškevičius, R., Zinkutė, R., Stakėnienė, R., Radavičius, M. (2013) Case study of relationship between aqua regia and real total contents of harmful trace elements in some European soils. Journal of chemistry [elektroninis išteklius] art. no. 678140. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/678140
Adamonytė, G., Iršėnaitė, R., Motiejūnaitė, J., Taraškevičius, R., Matulevičiūtė, D. (2013) Myxomycetes in a forest affected by great cormorant colony : a case study in Western Lithuania. Fungal diversity. 59 (1): 131–146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-012-0203-8
Stančikaitė, M., Bliujienė, A., Kisielienė, D., Mažeika, J., Taraškevičius, R., Messalc, S., Szwarczewski, P., Kusiak, J., Stakėnienė, R. (2013) Population history and palaeoenvironment in the Skomantai archaeological site, West Lithuania : two thousand years. Quaternary international. 308: 190–204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.08.2108
Taraškevičius, R., Stančikaitė, M., Bliujienė, A., Stakėnienė, R., Zinkutė, R., Kusiak, J. (2012) Search for geochemical indicators of pre-urban habitation sites : case study from the Skomantai hill-fort and settlement, western Lithuania. Geochemistry : exploration, environment, analysis. 12 (4): 265–275. https://doi.org/10.1144/geochem2012-123
Taraškevičius, R., Zinkutė, R. (2011) Urban geochemical anomalies of Lithuania and their spread. Baltica. 24 (SI): 163–168.
Klemkaitė, K., Prosyčevas, I., Taraškevičius, R., Khinsky, Al., Kareiva, A. (2011) Synthesis and characterization of layered double hydroxides with different cations (Mg, Co, Ni, Al), decomposition and reformation of mixed metal oxides to layered structures. Central European journal of chemistry. 9 (2): 275-282. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11532-011-0007-9
Zinkutė, R., Taraškevičius, R., Želvys, T. (2011) Major elements as possible factors of trace element urban pedochemical anomalies. Central European journal of chemistry. 9 (2): 337-347. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11532-011-0012-z
Kumpienė, J., Brännvall, E., Taraškevičius, R., Aksamitauskas, Č., Zinkutė, R. (2011) Spatial variability of topsoil contamination with trace elements in preschools in Vilnius, Lithuania. Journal of geochemical exploration. 108 (1): 15-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2010.08.003