The research is be focused on two types of environment sensible to the disturbance or long-term changes in basin and stream connectivity: .(i) the headwater areas of streams in montane regions and .(ii) the catchments in rural areas. 

In headwater regions in montane regions the research will be focused on the changes in the dynamics of runoff response and fluvial processes in catchments and streams. 

In rural catchments, the research will be focused to the changes in the dynamics of erosion-sedimentation processes in river basins, to development of a floodplain and to lake basin siltation. 

The research in headwater regions will provide answers to the following research questions:

i) What are the key forces that affect the changes of catchment and stream connectivity in montane regions?

ii) How significant is the role of landscape and stream disturbance to the changes in dynamics of runoff response and fluvial processes and to the changes in their retention potential?

iii) What is the contribution of new monitoring, detection and survey techniques to the shift of knowledge on hydrological and fluvial processes

iv) How much the information regarding the processes detected during the detailed monitoring of relatively homogenous experimental catchments can be applied to larger complex basins?

The research in rural catchments will provide answers to the following research questions:

v) How are the changes in the landscape reflected in the observable characteristics of the fluvial and lake systems?

vi) What are the key forces that drive changes to soil erosion, fluvial and lake systems? 

vii) How to define present and future states of fluvial and lake systems considering own monitoring of processes and obtained knowledge?