Important applicative part of the ecological population studies of beetles in Slovenia is development of national biodiversity monitoring scheme. This work presents the first study on method evaluations in the scope of establishing monitoring program for species listed on EU Habitat Directive, for which the state is obliged to establish monitoring. In the European Union monitoring scheme is still in the process of development in many countries and this work is one of the first this kind with evaluated monitoring methods and described monitoring protocol.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
COBISS.SI-ID: 27212845At international scientific conference in the Netherlands the results of the first part of this project were presented. For the first time the existence of indirect interspecific interactions among species of the same predator guild, forest owls, was proved. On the intraguild level the positive indirect relationship between the largest (i.e. Ural Owl) and the smallest guild member (i.e. Tengmalm’s Owl) was established in the sympatry with the third mediator species (i.e. Tawny Owl). The contribution is currently in the process of publishing in the journal Ardea (JCR IF (2007): 1.076).
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 23578585In the scope of Natura 2000 EU network in Slovenia the beetles are one of more problematic groups in the way of establishing this network due to insufficient available data. The problems are also of methodological kind since methodological approaches for long-term population monitoring are still in the process of development in Europe. This work is dealing with both problems with presentation of the first field method tests. The part with water beetles surveys was also in the scope of studies of interspecific interactions in predator assemblages within postdoctoral project.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
COBISS.SI-ID: 25295321At the international ornithological conference in Italy (Trieste) the studies of the Ural Owl were presented with special emphasis put on interspecific interactions (prey, competitors) and breeding biology. The study confirmed large impact of Fat Dormouse population on the Ural Owl population, since dormice are the most abundant prey of Ural Owl in a part of a season. The contribution was according to invitation prepared also as a paper and will be published in Atti Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Trieste.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 23996121The contribution is part of public relation and science popularization. On the first program of national Radio Slovenia I have presented my research and scientific work in a show entitled Luxury in a Head. The most part of presented work came out of the postdoctoral project naming studies of ecosystem function in the aspect of interspecific interactions in predator assemblages of owls and beetles.
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