Toshpulat Rajabov (in the front) studying a grass species during a fieldtrip in Iceland 2009
Toshpulat Rajabov
from Uzbekistan was a LRT fellow in 2009. Since attending LRT, he has been invited to participate in two United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) projects in Uzbekistan. One of the projects concerns restoration models of desert ecosystems
of degraded rangelands in Surkhandarya district, Uzbekistan. The other project is about conserving biodiversity and restoring ecosystems of the Kyzylkum desert. Toshpulat´s task is for example
to assess vegetation states and to create GIS maps of vegetation associations.
During the LRT time in Iceland, Toshpulat worked on an individual project related to his home country. The name of his project was: Ecological assessment of spatio-temporal changes of vegetation in response to piosphere effects in semi arid rangelands of Uzbekistan.
