Tree-rings as a historical bioindicator of temporal trends in environmental pollution

Code

L1-7135 (D) - included in ARIS records

Head

PhD Boštjan Pokorny

Period

9/1/2005 - 8/31/2008

Range in 2008

0.83 FTE

Science

Natural sciences and mathematics (4)
Biotechnical sciences (5)
Interdisciplinary research (1)
Other (1)

Reseacher status

Researcher (10)
Junior expert or technical associate (1)

Education

Doctor's degree (8)
Master's degree (1)
Other (2)

Sex

Woman (7)
Man (4)

Status

Employed at RO and RRD (8)
No data on employment in RO (3)

No. of publications

10–99 (1)
100–999 (8)
1,000–9,999 (2)

Projects / Programmes source: ARIS

source: ARIS

Tree-rings as a historical bioindicator of temporal trends in environmental pollution

Research activity

Code	Science	Field	Subfield
1.08.00	Natural sciences and mathematics	Control and care of the environment

Code	Science	Field
B270	Biomedical sciences	Plant ecology

Keywords

wood, tree-rings, bark pocket, bioindication, historical biomonitoring, environmental pollution, heavy metals, Šalek Valley, Upper Meža Valley, Zasavje region

Evaluation (rules)

source: COBISS

Evaluation of bibliographic research performance indicators according to ARIS methodology

Citations Citations for bibliographic records in COBIB.SI that are linked to records in citation databases

source: WoS

source: Scopus

source: COBISS

Researchers (11)

no.	Code	Name and surname	Research area	Role	Period	No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.	12031	PhD Samar Al Sayegh Petkovšek	Control and care of the environment	Researcher	2005 - 2008	345
2.	19901	Andrej Glinšek	Chemistry	Researcher	2005 - 2008	183
3.	07127	PhD Hojka Kraigher	Forestry, wood and paper technology	Researcher	2005 - 2008	1,332
4.	11595	PhD Tomislav Levanič	Forestry, wood and paper technology	Researcher	2005 - 2008	616
5.	15858	PhD Zdenka Mazej Grudnik	Biology	Researcher	2005 - 2008	214
6.	18112	PhD Boštjan Pokorny	Forestry, wood and paper technology	Head	2005 - 2008	887
7.	23000	PhD Helena Poličnik	Interdisciplinary research	Junior researcher	2005 - 2008	217
8.	08604	PhD Cvetka Ribarič Lasnik	Plant production	Researcher	2005 - 2008	278
9.	10264	PhD Primož Simončič	Forestry, wood and paper technology	Researcher	2005 - 2008	702
10.	15165	MSc Julija Vrbovšek	Chemistry	Researcher	2005 - 2008	1,004
11.	23168	Marjeta Zaluberšek		Technical associate	2005 - 2008	98

Organisations (3)

no.	Code	Research organisation	City	Registration number	No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.	0404	Slovenian Forestry Institute	Ljubljana	5051673000	12,014
2.	1007	Eurofins ERICo Slovenija Inštitut za ekološke raziskave d.o.o. (Slovene)	Velenje	5583055000	2,451
3.	2434	Institute of Environmental and Spatial Planning	Velenje	2194015	282

Abstract

Knowledge about trends in environmental pollution is of great importance for understanding temporal changes in exposure and functioning of ecosystems; moreover, this knowledge is essential also for reliable assessment of effectiveness of different mitigation measures done on dispersed as well as on point emission sources. Annual rings and bark pockets of trees may be a useful tool for retrospective determination of trends in environmental pollution and for detection of predominant emission sources in a given period of time; however, this potential has not been adequately used in Slovenia so far. Therefore, the main goals of the proposed project are as follows: (i) selection of the most suitable tree species for historical biomonitoring of environmental pollution with heavy metals; (ii) determination of above mentioned temporal trends in four areas of Slovenia (the Šalek Valley, the Upper Meža Valley, Zasavje region and Kočevsko region, respectively); (iii) determination of predominant emission sources in the given period of time; (iv) evaluation of effectiveness of some measures done on big emission sources in study areas; (v) comparison of historical trends among four areas of Slovenia, area with an important natural emissions of heavy metals due to volcano activity (Etna mountain, Sicily), and boreal area of northern Norway as a typical control region, respectively. A proposed research project has an important scientific as well as applicative value, since it will significantly contribute to: (a) development of a bioindication as a basic research field; (b) new scientific findings on changes in environmental pollution and ecosystem burdening in Slovenia; (c) evaluation of effectiveness of some measures orientated toward reducing emissions of different hazardous substances.