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Biotechnological Hub of the NIB (BTH-NIB)
The purpose of the investment project BTH-NIB is the assurance of the appropriate infrastructural conditions for the use of research and developmental opportunities in the fields of operation of the NIB.
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Dr. Danilo Bevk
Working place: Senior Research Associate
Telephone number: +386 (0)59 23 27 83
Email: danilo.bevk@nib.si
Department: Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research
Main research activities and interests:
- Diversity, ecology, monitoring and protection of pollinators (bumblebees, solitary bees)
- Management of pollinators in agriculture
- Green infrastructure and pollinators in cities
- Effects of pesticides on pollinators
- Agriculture and biodiveristy
- Entomovectoring
- Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) and Oriental hornet (V. orientalis)
- Popularisation of science
Projects:
- Pollination deficit in Slovenian agriculture (2024–2027)
- Interreg BEE(A)WARE: Multidisciplinary capacity building and development of new solutions in order to conserve, protect, and enhance endangered wild pollinator communities and honeybee within the ecosystems (2024–2026)
- Horizon Europe: BeeGuards: Resilient beekeeping and breeding to safeguard natural genetic resources and pollination services (2023–2027)
- Interreg BEE2GETHER: Strengthening the cross-border innovative system for improving biodiversity through bee monitoring (2023–2025)
- Interreg FRACTAL: FosteRing green infrAstruCTure in the ALps (2023–2024)
- Monitoring of wild bees in Slovenia (2023)
- EIP POMOP: Supporting pollinators in intensive agricultural landscapes to promote biodiversity (2022–2025)
- SafeAgroBee: Safeguarding agroecosystem resilience under climate change through efficient pollination and sustainable beekeeping (2021–2024)
- The design of the methodology for monitoring of wild pollinators in Slovenia (2019–2023)
- Potential exposure of bumblebees and other wild pollinators to pesticides in spraying in the early morning and evening (2018–2021)
- Fruit growers for pollinators and pollinators for fruit growers (2018–2021)
- LIFE NATURAVIVA - Biodiversity – Art of Life (2017–2022)
- Research of pollinators on green roofs (finished); video (2019)
- The importance of wild pollinators for crop pollination and sustainable management in agriculture to ensure reliable pollination (2016–2018)
- BICOPOLL: Targeted precision biocontrol and pollination enhancement in organic cropping systems (2011–2014)
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