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Flee$ng Flora -‐ The increasing loss in specific endemic flora located in the Pirin Mountains
I want to make an analysis on the endangered endemic flora in the Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria. • 35% of Bulgaria is covered by forest • One of the countries with the highest biodiversity in Europe • Its flora encompass more than 3,800 species • 170 endemic • 150 endangered
Mo$va$on
• Personal -‐ Bansko, Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria • Forest • Exhibi$on • Possibility to show my findings to people of importance
Asteraceae Achillea Chrysocoma • Asteraceae/Sunflower family • Endangered • Medicinal Proper$es
Ques$on What is the main cause and how can it be preserved?
Possible Factors
• Added to the World Heritage List in 1983 – all areas expect ski resorts (Bankso) • Landscape development • Pollu$on • Climate change (results taken from cored glacier -‐ Pirin Mountains, Snezhnika,
Bulgaria • Bumblebee loss – 5 to 30% during 2006-‐9 (pollen produc$on)
Preserva$on example
New Ex Situ Collec$on of Rare and Threatened Medicinal Plants in the Pirin Mts. (Bulgaria),
Ekoloji, see ref. 13
References
• Boris Sakschewski – Tree Diversity • Jessica Strefler – Planetary Boundaries
References
• hcp://ekoloji.com.tr/resimler/72-‐5.pdf
• hcps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dimitar_Uzunov/publica$on/235927317_New_horological_data_on_the_flora_of_the_North_Pirin_Mountain/links/02bfe5144b194badf4000000.pdf
• hcps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ekaterina_Kozuharova3/publica$on/236953073_Autecological_observa$ons_on_Oxytropis_species_(Fabaceae)__two_of_them_rare_and_endemic_from_Northern_Pirin_Mts_Bulgaria/links/0c96051a63244d0f0e000000.pdf
• hcp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3896/IBRA.1.49.1.17?journalCode=tjar20 • hcp://www.map.meteoswiss.ch/icam2003/559.pdf
• hcps://books.google.de/books?hl=en&lr=&id=O5WTZr-‐2oEoC&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=%22pirin+mountains%22+%22climate+change%22&ots=7B
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