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Institute of Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Research
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Mission
Conduct research, provide espertise and training, and inform decision
makers in the areas of biodiversity, ecology, ecosystems and ecosystem
services, biological resources and environmental conservation.
Departments
• Plant and Fungal Diversity and Resources
• Animal Diversity and Resources
• Aquatic Ecosystems
• Ecosystem Research, Environmental Risk Assessment and Conservation
Biology
About 130 scientific staff is employed currently at the Institute.
Priority areas of research
• Origin, evolution and dynamics of flora, mycota and fauna
• Diversity of organisms and their ecological and evolutionary relations at
all levels: from genetic and population to ecosystem level
• Structure and functioning of biotic communities, ecosystems and
landscapes
• Scientific basis for environmental conservation: identification of threats
and development of mitigation measures
• Sustainable management of biological resources
Priority areas of research
• Biology and ecology of species of economic and social importance, such
as pests and parasites, as well as other organisms of importance to
medicine, nature protection, agriculture, forestry, fishery, hunting,
management of bio-resources and other human activities
• Invasive alien species – distribution, pathways of introduction, biological
and ecological traits, impact, early warning, risk assessment and
management
• Scientific basis of ecological risk assessment, assessment of
environmental impact, bio-monitoring and safety systems
Programme BG03 Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Priority 2: Improving the protection of natural ecosystems from
invasive alien species.
Open call 1: Network for exchange of information and capacity building
on invasive alien species
Priority 3: Improved integration of considerations related to
biodiversity into sectoral policies and legislation.
Open Call 2: Mapping and assessment of the ecosystems status and
their services
Priority 2: Improving the protection of natural ecosystems from
invasive alien species.
Open call 1: Network for exchange of information and capacity
building on invasive alien species
Our experience in this area/ What we can offer:
• The Institute has coordinated several national and international projects
on invasive alien species (IAS)
• Expertise in the invasive alien species taxonomy, distribution, pathways of
introduction, biology and ecology in Bulgaria, the Balkan Peninsula and
Europe, as well as IAS risk assessment and management
Biology, ecology and control of the invasive aliens species in the
Bulgarian flora (2009-2012) funded by the National Science Fund
Assessment of the alien species for the Bulgarian flora and mycota
and measures for mitigation of their impact on the natural
ecosystems and native species (2004-2006), funded by the Bulgarian
Ministry of Environment and Water
Assessment of Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) Infestation Risk
Using GIS for Water Basins in the North-West Bulgaria (2005-2006),
funded by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s
International Research Office
Dreissena spp. Native Range and Recent Invasions – Current Knowledge,
Potential Approaches and Further Actions (2008-2009), funded by the
Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research
Assessment and Management of Dreissena spp. Invasions
in the Bulgarian Water Bodies (2009-2012), funded by the National
Science Fund
Potential threats to environmental and economic sustainability in the
Danube and Black Sea Region: Danube River as invasive alien species
corridor (2012-ongoing), supported by the International Association for
Danube Research (IAD)
The Institute initiated the establishment of the East and South
European network on Invasive alien species (ESENIAS) with the
support of the European Environment Agency (EEA) and in
collaboration with IUCN/ISSG, with the aims:
- Exchange and share of information on IAS
- Facilitate collaboration between institutions and IAS experts in East and
South Europe to prevent the introduction of IAS and to combat their impact
- Establish joint research activities on IAS – publications, projects
- Harmonise regional IAS policy development
- Integrate information on IAS in East and South Europe into European and
global IAS initiatives.
Project Idea
• Develop the network structure of the IAS network in East and South Europe
• Establish an information system on IAS in the region to enable sharing of
data and information on IAS related initiatives carried out at the regional level
• Develop the structure and organisation of the dataflow to and within the
information system
• Develop the database and manage data
• Develop Early warning system in the region
• Extend the network to neighbouring countries, Hungary, Slovenia, as well as
to southern European and Black Sea countries
• Develop networking and cooperation with other IAS databases and gateways
at national, regional and European level
Potential Project
Partners:
NOBANIS and other IAS
information systems Directorate for Nature
Management – Norway;
Other interested partners
from Norway, Iceland and
Liechtenstein
Regional and national IAS databases East and South European countries
East and South European
network on Invasive alien
species
National System for
Environmental Monitoring
(ExEA)
Other national Information
systems/ experts (national
partners)
EASIN (JRC –
associated partner?)
Priority 3: Improved integration of considerations related to
biodiversity into sectoral policies and legislation.
Open Call 2: Mapping and assessment of the ecosystems status and their
services
Our experience in this area/ What we can offer:
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Formal member of ILTER net;
Participation in Eu Programs- СОST, H2020, LIFE+
Participation in the development of concepts Ecosystem integrity
and ESS
Participation in EUROMAB –Biosphere reserves,
Natura 2000.
ILTER е мрежа, която провежда научни изследвания за разбиране,
прогнозиране и управление на въздействието на глобалните промени
върху функционирането на екосистемите.
Структура на LTER-Europe
Глобална
мрежа
(I)LTER
Регионални
мрежи
Национални
мрежи
Ниво
платформи
Ниво
сайтове
LTER-Europe
България
Австрия
LTSER
платформа
Финландия
LTSER
платформи
LTER-Europe 2009
Дългосрочни екосистемни изследвания в
България: организиране на мрежа,
събиране и анализ на данни
Адаптация на горски екосистеми към
глобални промени
EnvEurope – LIFE + 2010-2013
Cost Action FP 0903 – 2009-2013
SENSFOR-2012-2016
EUROCOPPICE – 2013-2017
Critical loads - постоянен
Странджа – екосистемни услуги -приключен
Текущи проекти
• Работа по организация на мрежата
• Актуализиране и развитие на мрежата –
нови сайтове, създаване на LTSER
платформи
• Събиране и анализ на данни
• Разработване на мета база данни
• Участие в работата на глобалната и
европейската мрежа – дискусии,
проекти, специализации за млади учени
• Работа по популяризиране на мрежата
Дългосрочни екосистемни изследвания в България:
организиране на мрежа, събиране и анализ на данни,
оценка на екосистемен интегритет
LIFE +
ПРОЕКТ:
Environmental quality and pressures
assessment across Europe: the LTER network
as an integrated and shared system for
ecosystem monitoring
EnvEurope
2010-2013
Environmental quality and pressures assessment across Europe:
the EnvEurope Project
Sv. Bratanova-Doncheva1, N. Chipev1, R. Fikova1, E. Varadinova1,
V. Karamfilov1, E. Rafailova2, N. Ignatova2
1Central
The EnvEurope project was proposed (November 2008) and approved
(November 2009) within the Component “Environmental Policy and
Governance” (EPG) of the Programme LIFE + 2008.
The project started in January 2010 and will last 4 years, until December 2013.
EnvEurope is under the Coordination of Italy.
The Coordinating Beneficiary is the Institute of Marine Sciences of the National
Research Council (ISMAR-CNR) .
The project, which is the most relevant in terms of participants number (11
Countries, 16 European partners) and EC co-financing, among those approved
in LIFE+ 2008, fits into one of the main objectives of the component LIFE+ EPG
(“Strategic Approach”): strengthening the European process SEIS (Shared
Environmental Information System) and the GMES (Global Monitoring for
Environment and Security) initiative, in a context of ecological knowledge
transfer from the scientific world to the environmental policies.
Laboratory of General Ecology, 2 Gagarin Street, Sofia 1113
of Forestry, 10 Kliment Ohridski Blvd., Sofia 1756
2University
FINLAND
University Of Jyväskylä
SWEDEN
Swedish University Of Agricultural Sciences
LITHUANIA
Lithuanian University Of Agriculture
GERMANY
Senckenberg, Research Institutes and Natural History
Museums and Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research
POLAND
European Regional Centre For Ecohydrology U/A
Unesco, International Institute Of Polish Academy
of Sciences and Instytut Ekologii Terenów
Uprzemysłowionych
AUSTRIA
Federal Environmental Agency
SPAIN
Spanish National Research Council
ITALY
(COORDINATOR)
National Research Council (CNR) and CONECOFOR
BULGARIA
Central Laboratory of General Ecology
HUNGARY
University Of Debrecen and
Hungarian Academy Of Sciences
ROMANIA
University Of Bucharest, Department of Ecology and
Forest Research and Management Institute
The project EnvEurope was born and will develop inside the European Long-Term Ecosystem Research
Network (LTER-Europe) community.
The project aims at the integration and coordination at the European level of long-term ecological
research and monitoring initiatives, focused on understanding trends and changes of environmental
quality, and on the elaboration of relevant detection systems and methods.
The main target of the project EnvEurope is the analysis of the ecosystem status and the definition of
appropriate environmental quality indicators with an integrated long-term, broad scale, cross-domain
(terrestrial, freshwater, costal and marine ecosystems) approach, joining the efforts of 11 countries
belonging to the LTER Europe network.
EnvEurope proposes the design of environmental quality monitoring and research sites and the establishing of common
parameter sets to be collected across the largest network of long-term ecological research sites in Europe.
Focussing on three types of ecosystems (terrestrial, freshwater and marine) it aims at defining measures relevant to
different scales of investigation, with specific monitoring intensities and with methods adjusted to the respective
assessment intensity, implementing a multi-level and multi-functional approach.
A further target of the project is the selection of a core list of ecological parameters, indicators and indexes, useful to
analyse, compare and report environmental quality in the international context.
The EnvEurope project aims to:
 Select and provide data, information and ecological indicators concerning the long-term quality trends of
terrestrial, marine, freshwater ecosystems at European scale, inside the monitoring network E-LTER
(European Long Term Ecosystem Research network)
 Select and collect data able to provide information on environmental quality and drivers in respect of
indicators and methodologies shared and applied in the main European networks (LTER Europe, EIONET, EU
Forest Focus & ICPs of UNECE/CLRTAP/WGE, Natura2000, etc.).
 Reorganise the E-LTER network on the basis of suitable sites, reflecting ecological, political and economic
stratification of Europe. The reorganisation will contribute to the development of SEIS and GMES initiatives.
Enhancing the resilience capacity of
SENSitive mountain FORest
ecosystems under environmental
change (SENSFOR)
2012-2016
SENSFOR
Innovative management and
multifunctional utilization of
traditional coppice forests - an
answer to future ecological, economic
and social challenges in the European
forestry sector (EuroCoppice)
2013-2017
EUROCOPPICE
Assessing the adaptive capacity of
representative forest ecosystems
to environmental change in the
Pirin (Bg), Strandzha (Bg) and
Giant Mountains (Cz)
2014-2016
Partner - Global Change Research Centre AS CR,
CzAS
РАБОТНА СРЕЩА
ГОРСКИ ЕКОСИСТЕМИ – ГЛОБАЛНИ
КЛИМАТИЧНИ ПРОМЕНИ – ЕКОСИСТЕМНИ
УСЛУГИ, ЗАИНТЕРЕСОВАНИ
02 юни 2014 г., гр. Бургас,
Бургаски Свободен Университет
• Оценка на екосистемния интегритет –
разработване на система от индикатори
• Оценка на еластичността на
екосистемите и екосистемните услуги
• Развитие на методология за оценка на
Екосистемни услуги
• Съвместна работа с Coprnicus – in situ
валидиране
Перспективи
Potential Project
Partners:
Regional and national databases
National research institutions
NINA
Directorate for Nature
Management – Norway;
Other interested partners
from Norway, Iceland and
Liechtenstein
MOEW
National System for
Environmental Monitoring
(ExEA)
IBER - ER
ILTER Network
Alternet
For Contacts:
Teodora Trichkova
[email protected]
Dr Svetla Bratanova-Doncheva
[email protected]