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ПАНОРАМА НА БЪЛГАРСКАТА ЗООЛОГИЯ

PANORAMA OF BULGARIAN ZOOLOGY

Petar Beron

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Year of Publication: 2023

Cover Type: Hard

Category: Zoology

Edition: First Edition

Pages: 528

Format: n/a

Language: Bulgarian

Summary

An overview of the achievements in Bulgarian zoology to date (primarily in the fields of taxonomy, faunistics, zoogeography, and the history of zoology) is provided. The development of zoology in Bulgaria is traced by dates, with the main events that took place each year from 1776 to 2023 (Personalia, the development of institutions, scientific literature, etc.). The institutes, museums, scientific publications, expeditions in Bulgaria and other countries, as well as the contributions of Bulgarian zoologists to the study of world fauna are outlined. The various fields in which Bulgarian zoologists have worked are examined separately. A list of 300 Bulgarian zoologists with brief information about them is also included. An overview of the contemporary systematics of animals is provided, with Bulgarian contributions and literature for each group.

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.