Dinaric Alps

CROATIA | Friday, 5 July 2013 | Views [423] | View Smaller Image

Weather on Dinara montain is very changeable. So we have in one day experienced thunder storm, sun and storm winds. Biology NGO - BIUS is organized in sections. Each section deals with research of particular groups of organisms. So we have a section for spiders, beetles, reptiles, plants, fungi mammals, birds, etc. Every day sections go to different sites in the area we are reserching. To the peak of Croatia I was going with Herpetological section.

In 2012 with the association of students of biology, which I am a member, I organized biological research on mountain Dinara. Field research lasted for seven days in the 5th month and 10 days in the 8th month. Over 100 biology students from Croatian and abroad attended the research. One day we hiked on the highest peak of Croatian and along the path we are collected biological data. This image shows the starting trails from camp to the top.

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A mountain house is on alttitude of a 1000 m and the highest peak of Croatian is on 1831 m. Hiking from mountain lodge to the top and back, and collecting biological data at different alttitudes for Herpetological section lasted for 6h. Dinara is the karst area and the climbing and descent was quite tricky because the rocks in some parts quite loose and break easily. So we had to be very careful where you step and which rocks to catch.

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