2021.04.30

Scientists of the Department of Biological and Medical Sciences were the authors of 4 chapters in the authoritative collection

Four research works by scientists of the institutes of Botany, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Genetic Resources, Zoology, as well as Bioresources of Nakhchivan Branch of ANAS, have been published in “Biodiversity, Conservation, and Sustainability in Asia. Volume 1: Prospects and Challenges in West Asia and the Caucasus”, released by Springer Publishing House in 2021, in a form of individual chapters.

The scientific editors of the bulk are prominent Turkish scientists - Prof. Dr. Munir Ozturk, Prof. Dr. Volkan Altay, and prof. Dr.  Rajab Efe. The book mainly has been dedicated to the state-of-the-art of protection and sustainable use of biodiversity in West Asia and the Caucasus (Turkey, Russia, Palestine, Georgia, Iran, and Azerbaijan).

The chapters on Azerbaijan's biological diversity were given below:

- Sayyara Ibadullayeva, Irada Huseynova. Review on plant diversity of Azerbaijan (pp. 431-478);

- Zeynal Akparov, Aydin Asgarov, Afig Mammadov. Agrobiodiversity of Azerbaijan (pp. 479-499);

- Elman Yusifov, Elshad Ahmadov. Fauna diversity of Azerbaijan (pp. 501-525);

- Anvar Ibrahimov. Crataegus (Rosaceae) genus in the flora of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan (pp 527-547).