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Science  for  Diplomacy    

 

Name:  Jelena  Beloica    Affiliation:  University  of  Belgrade-­‐  Faculty  of  Forestry,  

Teaching  assistant    Contact  address:  Kneza  Višeslava  1,  11000  Belgrade,  SERBIA    Phone  contacts:  +381643953754;  +381113053875    Email:  jelenabeloica@yahoo.com    

       Education:    2008  -­‐      PhD  candidate  in  the  field  of  Ecological  engineering  in  the  protection  of    soil  and  water  

resources    University  of  Belgrade,  Faculty  of  Forestry,  PhD  thesis:    "Soil  acidification  as  a  factor  of  land  degradation  in  eastern  Serbia"  

 1999-­‐2005  University  of  Belgrade,  Faculty  of  Forestry,  Department  of  Landscape  Architecture  and  

Horticulture,  Graduate  Engineer,            1995-­‐1999    Grammar  School,  Vrnjačka  banja,  Serbia,  mathematics  department            Main  research  interests:  

-­‐    Forest  soils  and  forest  ecosystem  ecology  (dynamics);  -­‐    Air  pollution  and  forest  ecosystems;  

-­‐  Impacts  of  atmospheric  nitrogen  and  sulphur  deposition  on  soil  dynamics  and  forest/grassland  ecosystems;  

-­‐  Application  of  dynamic  models  in  assessment  of  critical  loads  for  air  pollutant  deposition  (nitrogen,  sulphur...);  

-­‐   Assessment   of   potential   plant   species   diversity,   using   soil-­‐vegetation   model     VSD+PROPS,   VSD-­‐Veg,  according  climate  change  on  future  soil  condition  scenarios.  

       Willing  to  collaborate  on:    -­‐    Forest  soil,  biogeochemical  cycling  (weathering  rates,  forest  nutrition,  mineral  cycling);  

-­‐    Carbon  sequestration  in  forests  and  forest  soils;  

-­‐    Soil  condition  (Ellenberg  indices)  and  plant  competitiveness  in  (semi)  natural  ecosystems;  -­‐    Quantifying  the  critical  loads  and  risks  posed  by  air  pollution  (ozone,  deposition  of  heavy  metals,  nitrogen  and  persistent  organic  pollutants  (POPs))  to  vegetation.  

Diipartimento  di  Scienze  BioAgroalimentari  (DiSBA)  Course  2