Ričkienė, Aurika. 2024. Šepeta mire researchers affiliated with Agriculture Academy. Šepeta. History of the lost mire: 22–35. Vilnius. https://doi.org/10.35513/NRC.2024.2.02.
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Summary
Key words: Academy of Agriculture, bog research, Brundza, Grigas, Juodis, Purvinas, Ruokis, Vengris, Vilkaitis.
In the first half of the 20th century, studies of the Šepeta bog were conducted by researchers of both Vytautas Magnus University and Agriculture Academy. Although all research of that time on this subject is significant, it is the monograph „Šepeta. Monograph on the raised bog“, prepared and published by researchers of the Agriculture Academy, that has the greatest lasting value for the long-term habitat and vegetation monitoring and assessment of changes therein. The data documented in this monograph represent the only extant source of validated information on surface and water geography, plant diversity and communities of the former Šepeta bog that is now lost. It was the scientific proficiency of two scientists, i.e. Vincas Vilkaitis and Kazys Brundza, that empowered the research team of the Agriculture Academy to conduct the complex research on the mire. Due to the changed historical circumstances after the Second World War, the team of researchers disbanded and was never rebuilt.
Key words: Academy of Agriculture, bog research, Kazys Brundza, Erikas Purvinas, JonasVengris, Viktoras Ruokis, Vincas Vilkaitis, Mečys Žemaitis.
Language: Lithuanian; Abstract – English
E-mail: aurika.rickiene@gamtc.lt
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