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EMERGE

LABORATORY FOR FRESHWATER AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY, LJUBLJANA; SLOVENIA (LFTER-NIB)

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Responsible scientist

Anton Brancelj

E-mail:anton.brancelj@uni-lj.si
, Institute:
National Institute of Biology,
Address:
Vecna pot 111
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: +386 1 423 33,
Fax: +386 1 423 50

Department of Biology, University of Ljubljana: BSc (1981): zoology - ecology; MSc. (1986): zoology - speleobiology; PhD (1991): zoology - hydrobiology - secondary production of zooplankton. Experience: 1983 - 1999: National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana. From 1993 head of the Laboratory for Freshwater and Terrestrial Ecosystems Research. Co-ordinator of several national projects financed by Ministry of Science. International activity: participation in EC projects: AL:PE2 (1993-1995 MOLAR (1996-1999) site co-ordinator for Slovenia. Main activity: taxonomy and ecology of Copepoda and Cladocera; secondary production and oxygen consumption in zooplankton; speleobiology.


Members

Natasa Gorjanc
E-mail:natasa.gorjanc@uni-lj.si,
Institute:
National Institute of Biology,
Address:
Vecna pot 111
Ljubljana, Slovenia,
Phone: +386 1 423 33,
Fax: +386 1 423 50

Gregor Muri
E-mail:gregor.muri@uni-lj.si,
Institute:
National Institute of Biology,
Address:
Vecna pot 111
Ljubljana, Slovenia,
Phone: +386-1-423 33,
Fax: +386-1-423 50

Faculty of Chemistry, University of Ljubljana: BSc (1996): physical chemistry - rare earth fluorides. MSc (2000): environmental chemistry - black carbon in lacustrine sediments. PhD (2003): organic geochemistry - lipids in lacustrine sediments. Experience: 1997 - : National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana. International activity: participation in EC project MOLAR (1997-1999), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah, USA (March - June 2001, Nov 2001 - Jan 2002, Oct 2002). Main activity: black carbon, organic geochemistry, water chemistry, air pollution

Milija Sisko
E-mail:Milijan.Sisko@nib.si,
Institute:
National Institute of Biology,
Address:
Vecna pot 111
Ljubljana, Slovenia,
Phone: +386-1-423338,
Fax: +386-1-423503

Department of Biology, University of Ljubljana: BSc (1986): marine biology - ecology and ecotoxycology. Experience: 1987-1999: National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana. International activity: participation in EC projects AL:PE2 (1993-1995), MOLAR (1997-1999). Main activity: taxonomy of diatoms, algae cultures, ecophysiology of algae, ecological modelling.

Jurij Dobravec
E-mail:Jurij.Dobravec@tnp.gov.si,
Institute:
National Institute of Biology,
Address:
Vecna pot 111
Ljubljana, Slovenia,
Phone: +386 1 423 33,
Fax: +386 1 423 50

Irena Rejec Brancelj
E-mail:irena.rejec.brancelj@uni-lj.si,
Institute:
Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London,
Address:
Bedford Way, 26
London, United Kingdom,
Phone: ,
Fax:


Tasks:

LFTER-NIB undertakes all field sampling operations for the Julian Alp Classification and Validation lakes. Particular attention is put into biological responses to environmental gradients for modelling species distribution and food-web structure. Analyses include epipelic diatoms, litoral invertebrates, plankton analyses, major water ions and short core analyses for diatoms and cladocera. An automatic weather station and deposition measurements is maintained the Valley of Sedmera Jezera. The karstic geology of the Julian Alp Lake District makes these lakes quite unique among European mountain lakes and catchment hydrology (snow water equivalent, annual water budget) of two lakes is studied using tracer applications. LFTER-NIB co-ordinates the biological harmonisation of cladocera across the project. Together with the University of Ljubliana LFTER-NIB implements a pilot study of the socio-economic methodology devised elsewhere by CSERGE-UEA and IOES-NLH to assess the effects that a different cultural and economic framework may have on these techniques. GIS for the region of the Triglav National Park already exists and is upgraded with data emerged from the EMERGE project. The Triglav National Park as an end user of those data participates in the programme with no additional costs. EMERGE is complimentary with a national project focused on the Julian Alpine lakes: "Slovenian mountain lakes: Palaeoecology and ecology - eutrophication processes in mountain lakes".


Lake Districts:


Recent Publications

Electron transport system (ETS) activity and respiration rate in five Daphnia species at different temperatures

Simeie, T., &. Brancelj, A. (1997) Hydrobiologia. 360, 117-125.

Alona stochi n.sp. - the third cave-dwelling cladoceran (Crustacea: Cladocera) from the Balkans

Brancelj, A. (1997) Hydrobiologia. 360, 47-54.

Distribution of algae and crustacea (Copepoda & Cladocera) in mountain lakes in Slovenia with different trophic levels

Brancelj, A., Kosi, G. & Sisko, M. (1997) Periodicum Biologorum. 99(1), 87-96.

Ab initio studies on the structures and vibrational frequencies of rare earth fluorides LnFn (Ln= Er, Tm; n = 1,2,3) and their positive ions and an assessment of their ionization and dissociation energies

Lesar A., Muri G., & Hodoseek M., (1998) J. Phys. Chem. 102, 1170-1176.

Influence of modern farming on karstic landscapes

Rejec Brancelj I.. (1998) Acta Carsologica XXVII/1, 13, 203-213.

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