Τομέας: Β΄ «Οικολογίας, Διαχείρισης και Προστασίας Φυσικού Περιβάλλοντος»

Διαδασκαλία: α) Βιολογία Άγριας Πανίδας, β) Διαχείριση Άγριας Ζωής και Προστατευόμενων Φυσικών Περιοχών, γ) Δασική και Περιβαλλοντική Νομοθεσία

Contact Information

Name: Periklis K. Birtsas

Personal address: 48 Paparigopoulou str, Karditsa, GR 43100,  Greece

Telephone:   +30 24410 64710

Fax.: +30 24410 64710

Cell Phone: +30 6972 449731

Email: birtsas@teilar.gr

Personal Information

Date of Birth: April 28, 1966

Place of Birth: Kalamata (Greece)

Family situation: Married, three children

Professional situation

·         Assistant professor at the Technological Education Institute of Larissa, Karditsa Annex, School of Agricultural Technology, Department of Forestry Mavromichali, GR 431 00, Karditsa, Greece. Τel., fax: +30 24410 – 64710

Education
Diplomas

·         2002: PhD in Wildlife Ecology and Management. Thesis: “Ecology and Conservation of Black-crowned Night-heron [Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax (L., 1758)] at the Kerkini Reservoir, Macedonia, Greece”  carried out and defended at the Department of Range & Wildlife   Management, School of Forestry & Natural Environment, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.

·         1992: University Diploma in Forestry and Natural Environment (School of Forestry & Natural Environment, Department of Range & Wildlife   Management, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece).

Qualifications

• Handy with field and laboratory techniques on wildlife ecology and management
• Very experienced in informatics with most types of software
• Traveled, lectured and carried out research all over Greece
• Coordinator of four major research subjects: migration of turdidae (Tudrus sp.), migration of wildfowl in several wetlands, management of corvidae in suburban areas, and ecology and management of Brown hare (Lepus europaeus) in burned areas.
• Author of many publications in scientific Journals and books
• Author of articles in several Greek nature-conservation popularized periodicals
• Author and editor of nature conservation brochures, leaflets and booklets in Greece
• Member of several Greek and International societies
• Wildlife Photographer
• Former book publisher and editor of books on wildlife and hunting management.

Main scientific intersts

• Ecology and management of birds and mammals in Mediterranean region
• Wildlife diseases
• Structure, function and management of Mediterranean-type ecosystems, marginal lands, as well as artificial wetlands (e.g. saltworks and saline ecosystems)
• Species and ecosystem conservation