Stoyan C. Nikolov

TL;DR: The authors tracked 19 juvenile Egyptian Vultures from the declining breeding population on the Balkan Peninsula between 2010 and 2014 to estimate survival and identify important migratory routes and wintering areas for this species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the effect of pastureland abandonment on plant communities at the Ponor Mt., a part of the Balkan Mts., Bulgaria, using Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) to analyze how species composition is related to abiotic and land use factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report immediate impacts of changes in human activities on wildlife and environmental threats during the early lockdown months of 2020, based on 877 qualitative reports and 332 quantitative assessments from 89 different studies.

TL;DR: The maintenance of traditional rural landscapes should be prioritized in the Balkans, through the timely identification of HNV farmland that is most prone to abandonment, and coordinated transnational research is needed, for a better assessment of conservation options in remote rural landscapes at European scale.

TL;DR: In this article, a large telemetry dataset on the globally endangered Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus (94 individuals, 188 completed migratory journeys), tracked across ~70% of the species' global range, was used to analyze spatial and temporal variability of migratory movements within and among individuals and populations.