Bulgaria – iBOL Europe

Plant ID

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:47 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Greece, Bulgaria, N. Macedonia
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Plants
Host institute(s): University of Thessaly (Greece)
Time span: Finished
Description: Plants are essential for many aspects of our daily lives as they provide food, medicines, and construction materials. Plants also affect us negatively through pollen and resulting allergies, poisonous species in gardens and pastures and as adulterants in herbal medicines, and as invasive aliens in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments. Understanding and valorising botanical biodiversity requires accurate, modern and rapid assessment approaches. Plant diversity worldwide is under threat from destruction of natural habitats due to human population growth related consequences as well as climate change impacts on sensitive ecosystems. It is in our capacity to study, map and describe this diversity, and plant systematics and taxonomy has suffered from a loss of research and institutional funds as research has become more competitive and taxonomy was considered too descriptive to compete with emerging fundamental research.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:25 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey
Ecosystem coverage: Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Plants
Host institute(s): Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics (IPPG), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)
Time span: Finished
Description: 1) Increase the research capacity of IPPG and its partner Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (IBER) in DNA barcoding technologies – build a knowledge platform through an exchange of experience from leading European groups, organization of training events. 2) Increase the networking capacity of IPPG in DNA barcoding technologies both at national and international level. 3) Promote and enhance plant and phytopathogenic fungi biodiversity studies in Bulgaria through DNA barcoding technologies – focus on natural populations of endangered and endemic for Bulgaria species, medicinal plants, crops on economical importance. 4) Active participation in project initiatives of iBOL and its hub BIOSCAN Europe in the field of plant biodiversity studies. 5) Develop a knowledge and network platform for the establishment of BulBol community – a beyond project goal

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:18 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Bulgaria
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non insects), Chordates, Plants, Fungi & lichens, Other metazoa, Protista, Others
Partner institute(s): Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, National Museum of Natural History, Sofia University (SU) “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Pensoft Publishers, AgroBioInstitute, Agricultural Academy, University of Forestry (Bulgaria)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: The Bulgarian Barcode of Life project (BgBOL) is a national network that brings together six research institutions and the scientific publisher Pensoft with the aim to establish collaboration on DNA barcoding in Bulgaria, and become a regional representative of the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project. BgBOL aims to develop a targeted, systematic and large-scale inventory of the diversity of major groups of organisms through the application of DNA methods in Bulgaria.