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High-Mountain Terrestrial Fauna in Bulgaria

Petar Beron

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Year of Publication: 2022

Cover Type: Hard

Category: Biodiversity, Bioresources and Ecology

Edition: First Edition

Pages: 290

Format: n/a

Language: English

Summary

The main high-mountain zones in Bulgaria are included in the national parks and other protected territories (the Rila, Pirin and the Central Balkan National Parks, the Vitosha Natural Park, the Alibotush Natural Reserve). This makes their study essential – in order to enhance the conservation value of the territories and establish the degree of vulnerability of some threatened species and communities. Recently, many new data have been obtained in the studies of the national parks aiming to establish their management plans.

Аbout The Author

• Petar Beron: Petar Beron graduated from the Faculty of Biology, Geology and Geography at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". Until 1969 he worked as a biologist at the Institute of Zoology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Specializations in biospeleology in France and parasitology in Prague. From 1969 to 1978 he was a research associate at the Institute of Zoology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He has been a doctor of biological sciences since 1975. In 1978 he became a senior research associate at the same institute and head of the Zoology section at the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Leader and participant in many expeditions and solo trips to more than 80 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, New Guinea and others. From 1993 to 2005 he was director of the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He has taught zoogeography at the Faculty of Biology at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and acarology at Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski". The research of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Peter Beron is most often focused on the cave fauna, the fauna (mostly mites) of the high mountains in the world, the bats and their ectoparasites, the history of zoology. He is the author of a large number of scientific and journalistic works.