November 20, 2010: ULRMC office held an ad-hock meeting on information exchange and web-resources. Participants: BioModel expert (Vasyl Prydatko, right) and NASC representatives (National Antarctic Scientific Center, State Committee of Ukraine on Science, Innovation and Informatization – Kyiv) – Stanislav Nedogybchenko (member of the expected 16th antarctic expedition, first to Read more…
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…
October 20, 2010: BioModel representative (V.Prydatko, Ph.D) took part in the round-table ‘Adaptation to Climate Change Discussion’, and which was initiated and organized for local experts by the World Bank Office (Kyiv). More… BioModel reported about “Mathematical Models Indicator Set as the Basis for Decision Making in Adaptation to Climate Read more…
This book of 2007s is not well known yet for our regional modellers in Ukraine specially: “A climatic atlas of European breeding birds” (Brian Huntley, Rhys Green, Yvonne Collingham and Stephen G Willis) – 521 pages, maps, tabs, figures. It shows how the expected climatic change may alter each species’ Read more…
Global Biodiversity means total variability of life forms forms of planet Earth. It includes about 1,7 million known species, and that is thought to be serious underestimate of the total number of it. The United Nations proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and Read more…
From the students’ desk (bachelor’s research announcement): Gryb O. (2010). Development of Landscape Ecological Profile of the manufacturing enterprise Velykosnytynske [near Kyiv] With Usage of Modern Indicators and Indices (LССD, MSA, etc.) The Bachelor’s Work for the specialty 6.070800 ‘Ecology and the Environmental Conservation’. Kyiv: NUBLS, 2010: 68. Resume (TBD, Read more…
This spring BioModel participates in a small international project on development of the new book ‘Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modelling: Perspectives and Applications’ (2010). It is an outcome of the Dakar’s Modelling Workshop (December, 2009). The Forestry Faculty of Kasetsart University (Bangkok, Thailand) leads this process. Last week Read more…
April 12-15: the XVII International conference «Lomonosov» BioModel has presented results of SDM-approach for East Europe. Thesis is available in russian.
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…
