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Doctor of life sciences and expert in highland ecology. He works mainly in the academic sector. His PhD degree is related to Ilia State University. Participates in international environmental projects, has been an important international project coordinator for 17 years. His areas of interest are highland ecology and the impact of climate change on biodiversity. Is the author of 10 publications, supervisor of several master thesis. Currently, he is a guest lecturer at Ilia University and an associate professor at the Institute of Public Affairs

Learning course:

Global climate change and politics

Research and publications:

• Gigauri, O. Abdaladze, A. Bakhia, Z. Asanidze & A. Mamedova (2022)-The first results of the 3rd cycle of Global Monitoring GLORIA Network of the Central Great Caucasus. Bocconea 29: 103-119, Version of Record published online on 5 August 2022
• Jolokhava T., Abdaladze O., Gigauri Kh., Kikvidze Z., (2021)Gradient analysis of soil-plant interactions from the alpine-nival ecotone to the snowline on slopes of the Central Great Caucasus (Kazbegi Region, Georgia). Ukrainian Botanical Journal 73(3): 163-175
• Bürli S., Theurillat J-P., Winkler M., Lamprecht A., Pauli H., Rixen Ch., Steinbauer K., Wipf S., Abdaladze O., Andrews CH., Barančok P., Benito-Alonso J. L., Fernández Calzado M. R., Carranza M. L., Dick J., Erschbamer B., Ghosn D., Gigauri Kh., Kazakis G., Mallaun M., Michelsen O., Moiseev D., Moiseev P., Molau U., Molero Mesa J., Morra di Cella U., Nadeem I., Nagy L., Nicklas L., Palaj A., Pedersen B., Petey M., Puşcaş M., Rossi G., Stanisci A., Tomaselli M., Unterluggauer P.,Ursu T-M., Villar L. & Vittoz P. (2021) A common soil temperature threshold for the upper limit of alpine grasslands in European mountains Alpine Botany 131(1): 1-12. DOI: 10.1007/s00035-021-00250-1 (Impact Factor: 2.515)
• Jonas Lembrechts, Johan van Den Hoogen, Juha Aalto, Michael Ashcroft, Pieter De Frenne, Julia Kemppinen, Martin Kopecký,Miska Luoto,  Miguel de Pablo, Stefano Chiesa, Christian Stiegler, Jürgen Dengler, Bart Deronde, Patrice Descombes, Valter Di Cecco, Michele Di Musciano, Jan Dick, Romina Dimarco, Jiri Dolezal, Ellen Dorrepaal, Jiří Dušek, Hamid Ejtehadi, Lars Eklundh, Brian Enquist, Mohammad Erfanian, Todd Erickson, Brigitta Erschbamer, Werner Eugster, Robert Ewers, Dan Exton, Nicolas Fanin, Fatih Fazlioglu, Iris Feigenwinter, Giuseppe Fenu, Olga Ferlian, Rosa Calzado, Eduardo Fernández-Pascual, Manfred Finckh, Rebecca Higgens, T'ai Forte, Erika Freeman, Esther Frei, Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo, María García, Rafael García, Charly Géron, Mana Gharun, Dany Ghosn, Khatuna Gigauri et all.  (2021)Global map of soil temperature, Global Change Biology  DOI: 10.32942/osf.io/pksqw (Impact Factor: 10.83)

• Jonas J. Lembrechts¹, Juha Aalto^2,3, Michael B. Ashcroft^4,5, Pieter De Frenne⁶, Martin Kopecký^7,8, Jonathan Lenoir⁹, Miska Luoto³, Ilya M. D. Maclean¹⁰, Olivier Roupsard^11,12, Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo^13,14,15,1, Rafael A. García^13,14, Loïc Pellissier^16,17, Nina Buchmann⁵⁶, Jiri Dolezal^7,57, Radim Matula⁸, Andrew D. Thomas⁵⁸, Joseph J. Bailey⁵⁹, Dany Ghosn⁶⁰, George Kazakis⁶⁰, Miguel Angel de Pablo⁶¹, Julia Kemppinen³, Pekka Niittynen³, Lisa Rew⁶², Tim Seipel⁶², Christian Larson⁶², James D. M. Speed⁶³, Jonas Ardö⁶⁴, Nicoletta Cannone⁶⁵, Mauro Guglielmin⁶⁶, Francesco Malfasi⁶⁶, Maaike Y. Bader⁶⁷, Rafaella Canessa⁶⁷, Angela Stanisci⁶⁸, Juergen Kreyling²⁴, Jonas Schmeddes²⁴, Laurenz Teuber²⁴, Valeria Aschero^69,70, Marek Čiliak⁷¹, František Máliš⁷², Pallieter De Smedt⁶, Sanne Govaert⁶, Camille Meeussen⁶, Pieter Vangansbeke⁶, Khatuna Gigauri⁷³ et all. (2020) ”SoilTemp: a global database of near-surface temperature”. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15123 (Impact Factor: 8.555)

 Projects:

From 2005 until now, coordinator of the international project - Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA-WORDWIDE) - co-funded by the European Union. Since 2019, participant of the international project - SoilTemp-Towards a global database of microclimate.

Research interest:                        

Global climate change, its impact on Georgia's biodiversity, raising awareness about climate change.