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Program:
BIODIVERSITY IN CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES AND SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
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Project |
Duration |
Executor |
Coordinator |
Phase 2008/Objectives |
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Ecology, Taxonomy and Nature Conservation Centre |
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Project 1.
The present state biodiversity in terrestrial
ecosystems differentiated on rocky substrate and the influence of global
climate changes on their evolution
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2008-2010 |
Ecology, Taxonomy and Nature Conservation Centre
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Dr. Mihaela Pauca Comanescu |
Phase 2008: Composition, structure and functions of hillock
cliff ecosystems (pioneers, scrubland, forests).
Objectives:
- Identification of pioneer biocoenoses, scrublands and forests on the
hillocks cliffs from Prahova and Doftana valleys. Extent and sozological
value.
- Differentiation of climate and substrate on hillock cliffs in the
different stages of vegetation cover development.
- Ecosystem structure of the three vegetation formations (sporadic
herbaceous, scrublands and forests)
- Quantitative studies on each identified biocoenosis for the groups:
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Fungi
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Plants: Bryophyta
Cormophyta
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Animals:
Enchytraeidae
Nematoda
Lumbricidae
Acari - Oribatida
- Gamasina
Collembola
Thysanoptera
Coleoptera - Carabidae
Chrysomelidae
Miriapoda -Chilopoda
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Project 2:
The impacts of hydrotechnic modifications on the
ecological systems from the Sfantu Gheorghe branch (Danube river) in the
context of sustainable development
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2008-2010 |
Ecology, Taxonomy and Nature Conservation Centre
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Dr. Doina Ionica
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Phase 2008: Evaluating the species diversity and structural
state parameters of the main planktonic and benthonic assemblages and of
the main physicochemical determinant factors.
Objectives:
- analysis of structural and functional state parameters for biocoenoses
in natural dynamic conditions: assessment of biodiversity in planktonic,
benthonic, phytophile and fish communities and of the physicochemical
determinants for the main trophic assemblages; assessment of productivity
in natural and anthropized ecosystems from the Sfantu Gheorghe branch;
- quantification of energy flow and ecological efficiency;
- building-up the homomorph model of natural and anthropzed ecosystems
from the Sfantu Gheorghe branch |
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Project 3: Taxonomy and chorology of
macrofungi, bryophytes and vascular plants from Romania.
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2008-2010 |
Ecology, Taxonomy and Nature Conservation Centre
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Dr. Sorin Stefanut
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2008: Taxonomy and chorology of the Russula genus,
Sphagnaceae family and Fabaceae family - Ononis, Trigonella,
Medicago and Melilotus genera.
Objectives:
- Taxonomic
and chorological studies of the species belonging to the Russula
genus;
- Taxonomic
and chorological studies of the Sphagnaceae family;
- Taxonomic
and chorological studies of the Fabaceae family with the Ononis,
Trigonella, Medicago and Melilotus genera;
- Mapping of
different species and building-up the chorological maps;
- Assessment
of the taxa doubtful for Romania;
- Assessment
of the exceptional specimens from the BUCM and BUCA herbaria towards their
inclusion in the National Heritage. |
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Project 4: Identification and
knowledge of natural habitats and endemic, rare and/or endangered species
of national interest from Romania |
2008-2010 |
Ecology, Taxonomy and Nature Conservation Centre
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Dr. Simona Mihailescu, Dr. Sorin Stefanut
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Phase 2008: Identification and knowledge of natural habitats
and endemic, rare and/or endangered species of national interest from the
alpine zone of Romania
Objectives:
- Identification of plants, fungi and animals and characterizing the
habitats of national interest from the alpine zone of Romania
- Assessing the conservation status of the studied habitats
- Assessing the areas of conservation interest that are not included in
the national network of protected areas. |
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Microbiology Centre |
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Project 5: Research upon the
biodiversity of extremophile microorganisms in a interdisciplinary,
integrative system
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2008-2010 |
Microbiology Centre |
Dr. Lucia Dumitru |
Phase 2008: Research upon the structural and functional
biodiversity of some Prokaryote and Eukaryote species from environments
with extreme and hostile conditions (temperature, salinity, pH, O2
concentration, and pollutants), based on integrative phenotypical
and genotypical approach.
Objectives :
- The study of some prokaryote structures with importance in
bionanotechnological applications (S-layer, magnetosomes);
- The diversity of extreme halophyle Archaea in evaporites (Neogen) from
the Slanic Prahova area;
- Structural and functional investigations regarding enzymes implicated in
the metabolism of extremophile microorganisms;
- Modifications at cellular and molecular level induced in conditions of
stress.
- The biodiversity of eukaryotes (fungi, protozoa) in extreme
environments;
- The structural and functional diversity of the cyanobacteria
Synechocystis PCC 6803 and of some cyanobacteria from natural
environments, in halo-alcalophile conditions.
- Assessing the taxonomical and physiological diversity of some bacteria
with degradation and biotechnological potential, with implications for
bioremediation processes |
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Plant and Animal
Cytobiology Centre |
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Project 6: Studies regarding the ex
situ conservation of the natural genofond towards the creation of a plant
gene and tissue bank of conservation and biotechnological interest |
2008-2010 |
Plant and Animal Cytobiology Centre |
Dr. Aurelia Brezeanu |
Phase 2008: Developing the existing plant cell and tissue
collection bank within the Institute of Biology towards the long term
conservation of some taxa of interest.
Objectives:
- Testing and selecting efficient and repeatable in vitro
conservation methods of some plant taxa of conservation and
biotechnological interest (biosynthesis, active principles);
- Characterizing at cell and molecular level (enzymatic markers and RAPD)
of the plant taxa included in the collection. |
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Project 7: Molecular and cellular
interactions at the tumor-peritumoral stroma interface in in situ
and experimental models |
2008-2010 |
Plant and Animal Cytobiology Centre |
Dr. Nicolae Mirancea |
Phase 2008 Epitelio-stromal interactions in tumorigenesis
and invasivity from the squamocellular and mamar carcinoma.
Objectives
- Investigating the infrastructural alterations of the tumoral epithelia
(cytoskeleton, cell-cell junctions and invasive cells-peritumoral
microenvironment).
- Structural and ultrastructural comparative aspects of stroma
modifications, including those of the basal membrane, in the different
stages of tumorigenesis. |
