On April 22 the ‘Obozrevatel’ (Observer) published an interview with Mr.Olexiy Vasylyuk (Environment-People-Law – EPL, NECU), who referred to conclusions of the Institute of Strategic Research (ISR) concerning its prediction on that within a few years the industrial Donbass area would be threatened by the large-scale ecological catastrophe due to Read more…
The recently conducted study demonstrated numerous cases of serious infraction of the legal land-use regime within protected areas (PAs) in Ukraine. Moreover, even privatization of lands within Ukrainian PAs has been detected. This conclusion has been made by NGO ecologists based on documents analysis and field observations of the nature Read more…
1-4 November 2011: BioModel representative (Grigoriy Kolomytsev) participated in workshop, which took place in Enschede. It was combined with a short training course on GLOBIO3 (including land-use-change simulation exercises using CLUE model). The workshop invitees list included partners around the globe were involved to GLOBIO3 modelling. It was organized by Read more…
There is new BioModel’s article on history of the first digital generalization of human impacts on Ukraine terrestrial biodiversity with usage of the GLOBIO-3 method.
This December CEUBIOM Project developed additional page at the ‘European Biomass Datasets’ Working Area entirely dedicated to Ukraine. It included links to three useful regional map-based resources of 2007-2010 i.e. EEBIO and BINU searchable web-systems with IFS-pages as well as links to BioModel’s web-page GLM-scenarios by 2050. BioModel’s note: read Read more…
Students write about… Starushik N.S. Modelling Stages Research for Indicative-indices Approach Based on NUBIP Agricultural Network. The Master’s Work for the specialty 6.070800 ‘Ecology and the Environmental Conservation’. Kyiv: NUBiP, 2010.–120 p. (see ukr)
Forthcoming book (IGI Global): Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives and Applications (2011). The book combines state-of-the-art modeling approaches at various scales with case studies from across the world… More, leaflet (TBD). Note: BioModel team developed chapter ‘Biodiversity modelling experiences in Ukraine’ for it. Our abstract stated that Read more…
Website GLOBIO model fully renewed. The GLOBIO model is a tool to assess past, present and future human impact on biodiversity. As a policy tool, it is regularly applied in global, regional and national assessments. The GLOBIO model is the result of a collaboration between the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency Read more…
October 28-29, 2009: The Young Scientists National Conference-2009 took place in biology faculty of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University. Participants presented scientific reports within following sections: botany, environmental protection, ecology, microbiology, virology, plant physiology cytology and histology, developmental biology, zoology, human and animal physiology, pharmacology, biophysics, radiobiology biochemistry, molecular biology, Read more…
Newest investigation of relationship between past warming and sea-level rise confirms that sea-level rise is imminent even in case of stabilization at today’s CO2 levels. Moreover, new conclusion is that rise level will be much higher than it was predicted by long-term projections from the Fourth Assessment Report of the Read more…
