{"id":69184,"date":"2026-10-12T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=69184"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:35:38","slug":"research-team-involving-iber-wins-award-for-biodiversity-and-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=69184&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Research team involving IBER wins award for biodiversity and climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3930.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69151 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3930-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3930-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3930-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3930-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3930-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3930-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3930-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3930-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3930-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3930-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3930-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A research team involving the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (IBER) <\/strong><strong>of BAS has won the Jury\u2019s Prize at the 2026 Annual Biodiversity and Climate Awards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On October 9, 2026, the annual award ceremony for the nominees of the Annual Biodiversity and Climate Awards 2026 took place at the \u201cPeroto\u201d Club in Sofia. The event celebrates the achievements of individuals, organizations, projects, and initiatives dedicated to nature conservation in Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<p>This year, for the first time, a new category for scientific contribution was introduced featuring 12 nominated scientific papers, including two dissertations. The 2026 Jury Award was won by the scientific publication <em>\u201cEcosystem Functioning under Climate Changes, Hydrological Confinement and Pollution Risks in the Shabla\u2013Ezerets Lake System (Northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast): Controlled Seasonal Outlet as a Pathway to Nature-based Restoration<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em> which examined the ecological challenges facing the Shabla-Ezerets lake system with the participation of Radoslava Bekova, Bogdan Prodanov, Todor Lambev from IO-BAS, and our colleague <strong>Chavdar Gusev from IBER-BAS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Honorary Award of the jury was presented posthumously to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Antoaneta Petrova, long-time Director of the Botanical Garden of BAS and our beloved colleague.<\/p>\n<p>Several other remarkable scientific works from IBER-BAS were also nominated:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Blagovesta Zheleva<\/strong> for her dissertation <em>\u201cImpact of Pesticides on Amphibian Species from Water Bodies with Different Degrees of Anthropogenic Impact in Central Bulgaria\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Niya Toshkova<\/strong> for her dissertation <em>\u201cCharacteristics of Hibernation of Cave-Dwelling Bat Species in Bulgaria in the Context of Global Climate Change\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Maria Kachamakova and Dr. Yordan Koshev<\/strong> for a scientific study investigating the distribution and ecological niche of the European ground squirrel in Bulgaria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3728.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-69149 size-medium\" title=\"\u0421\u043d\u0438\u043c\u043a\u0438: \u0422\u0438\u0445\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0440\u0430 \u041c\u0435\u0442\u043e\u0434\u0438\u0435\u0432\u0430 \u0422\u0438\u0445\u0438\u0447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3728-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3728-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3728-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3728-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3728-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3728-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3728-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3728-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3728-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3728-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TH4_3728-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team involving the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (IBER) of BAS has won the Jury\u2019s Prize at the 2026 Annual Biodiversity and Climate Awards. On October 9, 2026, the annual award ceremony for the nominees of the Annual Biodiversity and Climate Awards 2026 took place at the \u201cPeroto\u201d Club in Sofia. The event celebrates the achievements of individuals, organizations, projects, and initiatives dedicated to nature conservation in Bulgaria. This year, for the first time, a new category for scientific contribution was introduced featuring 12 nominated scientific papers, including two dissertations. The 2026 Jury Award was won by the scientific publication \u201cEcosystem Functioning under Climate Changes, Hydrological Confinement and Pollution Risks in the Shabla\u2013Ezerets Lake System (Northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast): Controlled Seasonal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?p=69184&#038;lang=en\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":69152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1771],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biodiversity-bioresources-and-ecology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69185,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69184\/revisions\/69185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}