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 […]
2 February each year is World Wetlands Day. It marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Each year since 1997, government agencies, NGOs and groups of citizens at all […]
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 […]
This is ULRMC Biotic GIS Group website to be related to several Projects on: i) biodiversity modelling training package development in Ukraine, ii) EEBIO(s) modelling examples development and demonstration, iii) other biodiversity modelling activities. i) The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP) jointly with the Netherlands International Institute for Geo-Information Science […]
A global biodiversity assessment model: GLOBIO3 Abstract The GLOBIO 3 model has been developed to assess human-induced changes in biodiversity, in the past, present and future at regional and global scales. The model is built on simple cause-effect relationships between environmental drivers and biodiversity impacts, based on state-of-the-art knowledge. The […]
Summary of the Day 1: WWF Senegal WAMER: Data collection, analysis; a case-study for the Government. Wetlands International: RAMSAR convention, birds-and-poverty. PBL: MSA-and-modelling, BDs, MSA in use for ecological reporting, policy making process/debates. Kenya: Forestry, cutting, agriculture, trends, deforestation, land conversion, forestry quality; communities; water shade protection and forestry; snow […]
(Ukraine natural zoning, nature zones of Ukraine, agriculture zones) Northern part of Ukraine is a forest zone (Polissia), predominated with pine and oak trees. Forest-steppe zone, which is just south of the forest one and is more capable of sustaining agriculture. Steppe zone is situated in southern and eastern Ukraine. […]
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, […]
The mean species abundance: European approach for terrestrial ecosystems biodiversity assessment Grigoriy Kolomytsev Schmalhausen institute of zoology (Kyiv) Full text is available in ukrainian and russian. For more information about Mean species abundance (MSA) index please visit Modelling leaflet page in English References: 1. Alkemade R., Oorschot M. et al. […]
