Organization of The st Slovenian microscopy congress in Portorož, with plenary lecture (Štrus Jasna), partcipating in scientific and organization committee (Žnidaršič, Kostanjšek) and several research contributions
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 28575527International student workshop in microscopy within the project Internacionalization of University of Ljubljana, organization of exposition, workshops and invited lectures of experts in microscopy
D.10 Educational activities
COBISS.SI-ID: 3499855In an ever more artificially illuminated world, common moth behaviour, flight-to-light, causes declines in their abundance and diversity that can have severe impacts on ecosystems. Namely, moths attracted to light are inactive and do not contribute to the breeding population, and commonly perish at lights. To test if it is possible to reduce the number of moths attracted to artificially illuminated objects, the original lighting of 15 cultural heritage buildings in Slovenia was substituted with blue or yellow lighting. These three illumination types differed in the amount of luminance, percentage of UV and short-wavelength light which are known to affect flight-to-light of moths. During our three-year field study approximately 20% of all known moth species in Slovenia were recorded. The blue and yellow illumination type attracted up to six times less specimens and up to four times less species compared to the original illumination type. This was true for all detected moths as well as within separate moth groups. This gives our study a high conservationvalue: usage of alternative, environmentally more acceptable illumination can greatly reduce the number of moths attracted to artificially illuminated objects.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
COBISS.SI-ID: 3648335In spite of Slovenia’s very high biodiversity, it has only a few animal groups that have been significantly investigated and are well known in this area. Slovenian researchers have studied only about half of the species known to be living in the country, but among well investigated species are centipedes.All available data (14 835 records) about centipedes in Slovenia collected from 1921 to 2014 have been consolidated and constitute a general electronic database called “CHILOBIO”, which was created to provide an easy overview of the Slovenian centipede fauna and to allow entry and interpretation of new data collected in future research. In the study period, 109 species were identified from 350 localities in 109 of the 236 UTM 10 × 10 km quadrants which cover the study area. The south-central part of the country has been the subject of the best investigations, whereas there is an absence of data from the south-eastern, eastern and north-eastern regions The highest number of species (52) has been recorded near the Iška valley (Central Slovenia, quadrant VL68). The highest number of specimens (9 582) and 79 species are known from the beech forest habitat type.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
COBISS.SI-ID: 3538767Coloss international conference of the society of bee researchers took place in Brdo pri lukovici, Slovenia from 21st to 23rd of October 2015. Member of the organizing committee was Janko Božič as the representative of Biotechnical faculty as a coorganizer of the conference. The topic of the meeting was threats and future of bee-keeping. Leading international researchers presented the latest professional achievements to bee-keepers. The conference was attended by 107 participants. Four members of our research group and a doctoral student presented two contributions. The congress events were presented by national media (http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/prispevki-in-izjave-prvi-dnevnik/174369174 )
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting