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General Description

The Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research was established on 1 July 2010 after merging three units of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: Institute of Zoology, Institute of Botany and Central Laboratory of General Ecology. The institute is the leading research entity in Bulgaria in the fields of ecology, biodiversity, conservation biology and sustainable use of biological resources. Research areas developed in this institute are botany, mycology, zoology, ecology, hydrobiology, conservation biology, wildlife parasitology, environmental genetics and evolutionary biology. The institute is registered for training of PhD students; as in the beginning of 2015, PhD students are 38 (including 11 PhD students in taxonomic studies). IBER-BAS is also involved in training MSc students in collaboration with various universities, mostly with the Faculty of Biology at the University of Sofia). IBER-BAS has experience during the last years in the implementation of projects funded by FP7 (6, including one managed by us), National Science Foundation of USA (1 project of the program Planetary Biodiversity Inventory), NATO, Life+, Biodiversa2 and numerous projects funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund. Recent developments of the staff qualification and technical equipment were achieved in the frames of the infrastructural projects WETLANET funded by FP7 (www.wetlanet.org) and CEBDER funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund (www.ecolab.bas.bg/cebder).

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Research Fields

• Anthropology / Physical anthropology (46.20.00)

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