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Project code: 1-08-004


BIOGEOGRAPHICAL SUBDIVISION, MAPPING AND ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS OF THE CROATIAN CALCAREOUS KARST


Main researcher: LOVRIĆ, ANDRIJA-ŽELIMIR (57266)


Assistants
Type of research: basic
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 12/31/95.
Papers on project (total): 59
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 4
Institution name: Institut "Ruđer Bošković", Zagreb (98)
Department/Institute: Center for Marine Research
Address: Bijenička 54
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
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Phone: 385 (0)1 4561075
Fax: 385 (0)1 420437
E-mail: vstrpic@public.srce.hr
Summary: The karstic ecosystems of calcareous substrata cover more than a half of Republic of Croatia and even 3/4 of all areas inhabited by Croats, but their biogeography and synecology so far has been considerably less studied than the non-karstic (siliceous) areas in Croatia. Their research program included the analyses of the vascular and thallophyte floras, and of the vertebrate fauna in correlation to the lithological and bioclimatic facators in selected connecting sites, then followed by the systematical synoptical mapping in 1:500.000 of the biocoenoses and ecosystems across the entire Croatian Karst, and at the end, a detailed mapping in 1:50.000 in the most rich and specific areas. Furthermore, we also analysed the gradient structure of karst ecosystems in the biocoenotical landscape complexes of their bioclimatic macrozonation, and of the uppermost degrees of plurizonal geosystems and nodaxial biogenic suprastructures, after the modern geoecological methodology in west Europe and America. We also treated the typology, classification and biodynamics of the earlier and extinct palaeocoenoses of Croatian Karst areas in the geological history, after the recent exact methods of the palaeocoenology as developed in world.

Keywords: Karst, Dinarides, geoecology, biodynamics, biocoenoses, bioindicators, mapping, endemics, relicts, palaeocoenoses, degradation

Research goals: a) Organizing and completing of an interdisciplinary research group for the Karst ecology and biogeography. b) Teaching and specializing of the young scientists in different specialities viz. geobotany, zooecology, geoecology, pedoecology, cartography etc., and their specializing may be completed by their M.Sc. or D.Sc. theses in the Karst problematics. c) Publishing of the cartographic surveys of the typlogy and zoning of ecosystems and biocoenoses in Croatian Karst with also their applied extrapolations in 1:500.000, including the degrees of degradation, threatening, diversity and richness, then also some detailed ecological-topographical maps in 1:50.000 of the richest representative Karst areas. d) Detailed studies on the dynamical evolution sequences of extinct and recent karstic biocoenoses and ecosystems during the geological history, and after this also a prognosis of the future biocoenoses and ecosystems in Croatian Karst related to actual climatic changes and human degradation. e) After the expected results combined with the earlier informations, we intend to present a regional cartographic subdivision of the Croatian Karst in relation to the optimal possibilities of its future rational uses, including the demarcation of the zones of minimal risks with maximal exploitation potentials, and the areas needing the prioritary protection and elimination of their degradation for the serious dangers of their irreparable destabilizing.
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