International projects

Promoting implementation of national and regional crop wild relative (CWR) conservation strategies through sharing of knowledge and experience to create an integrated European strategy for CWR conservation (CWR Conservation Strategies) Project leader: Dr. Juozas Labokas
Division: Laboratory of Economic Botany
Contracted by: Bioversity International

FP1206 European mixed forests. Integrating scientific knowledge in sustainable forest management Management Committee member: Dr. Jurga Motiejūnaitė
Division: Laboratory of Mycology
Source of funding: COST

FA1304 Swimming of fish and implications for migration and aquaculture Management Committee member: Dr. Saulius Stakėnas
Division: Laboratory of Fish Ecology
Source of funding: COST

FP1203 European non-wood forest products (NWFPs) network Management Committee member: Dr. Jolita Radušienė
Division: Laboratory of Economic Botany
Source of funding: COST

FA1306 The quest for tolerant varieties: phenotyping at plant and cellular level Management Committee member: Dr. Kristina Ložienė
Division: Laboratory of Economic Botany
Source of funding: COST

Collecting of fish samples in Lithuanian lakes and rivers for chemical analysis Project leader: Dr. Tomas Virbickas
Division: Laboratory of Fish Ecology
Contracted by: Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre

Climate change in peatlands: Holocene record, recent trends and related impacts on biodiversity and sequestered carbon (CLIMPEAT) Project leader: Prof. Dr. Habil. Jonas Mažeika
Division: Laboratory of Nuclear Geophysics and Radioecology
Source of funding: Research Council of Lithuania

Sustainable development of wind power in west Lithuania (DAVEP-VLIT) Project leader: Dr. Mindaugas Dagys
Division: Laboratory of Avian Ecology
Source of funding: European Economic Area Grants and Norway Grants Financial Mechanism

Impact of invasive crayfish on indigenous macroinvertebrate communities and ecological indicators of water quality Project leader: Dr. Aleksandras Rybakovas
Division: Laboratory of Evolutionary Ecology of Hydrobionts
Source of funding: Research Council of Lithuania

Processing of research and dispersed information on protected species and input into a unified protected species information system (PSIS/SRIS) Project leader: Dr. Valerijus Rašomavičius
Division: Laboratory of Flora and Geobotany
Source of funding: European Economic Area Grants and Norway Grants Financial Mechanism