New methods were introduced to Slovenia, a team of researchers trained in use molecular techniques in conservation planning, population management and forensics of wildlife. Results of a pilot study provided the first scientifically sound assessment of brown bear population densities in Slovenia. Based on the encouraging results of the pilot study the Ministry for Environment and Spatial Planning – Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia funded a non-invasive genetic census project for the entire national bear range. The results are already being implemented in management decisions.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1767247
(B. Sket) Two mandates as the president of International Society of Subterranean Biology, founded 1979; it is an international society organizing biennialy scientific symposia and issuing the journal Subterranean Biology (former Memoires de Biospeologie). More about the Society in http://www.fi.cnr.it/sibios/. Member of editorial boards of some international journals.
D.03 Membership in foreign/international boards/committees
COBISS.SI-ID: 000000000In order to promote, synchronise and unify studies of the genus, the following website was constructed: http://niphargus.info. It should contain some basic data (bibliography, species lists etc) and it should present some working tables and preliminary study texts. It should allow for comparable descriptions of taxa. All interested taxonomists and/or ecologists were invited to collaborate and communicate on this page
F.15 Development of a new information system/databases
COBISS.SI-ID: 1885263As members of an international group we successfully accomplished an action, by which the EU accepted groundwaters as an ecosystem. The former 'Groundwater Directive' regarded groundwaters only as a subject of physics and chemistry. Only now, we have possibility for conservation of groundwaters as a natural resource and for conservation of their fauna as our natural heritage. What follows are two titles from the action and the text of the first result:
F.23 Development of new system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 19131609The initiative, much of editorial work and a great number of headings for the popular-scientific monograph on the fauna of Slovenia. It presents the composition of the fauna, its history and biogeography, the endangerment etc. With ca 40 coauthors. It is important for the prpmotion of the science, but also as the sole source of data for many of scientific investigations.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 123099392(B. Sket) Two mandates as the president of International Society of Subterranean Biology, founded 1979; it is an international society organizing biennialy scientific symposia and issuing the journal Subterranean Biology (former Memoires de Biospeologie). More about the Society in http://www.fi.cnr.it/sibios/. Member of editorial boards of some international journals.
D.03 Membership in foreign/international boards/committees