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, see ukr).

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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 BioModel has finished its chapter ‘Modelling [...]

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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 (PBL), the UNEP World Conservation [...]

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About some new publications (TBP, Ukr): Mammals of the North-Eastern Ukraine: changes of fauna and views about fauna composition since review by Olexandr Czernay (1853) to the present. — Zagorodniuk I. V. – more details.

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February 4, 2010: BioModel demonstrated new GLM-report to students and scientists in NAUKMA (Kyiv) during a climate-change-round-table session. The presentation was titled as ‘GLM-scenarios of animal-plant-areal fluctuation by 2050 due to expected climate change (Ukraine, Western Europe)’  As it turned out, many students and scholars have heard about such GLM approaches for the first time [...]

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The environmentalists, members of the 16th Theriological School (Event), agreed that this 2010 year, they would devote to Otter (Lutra lutra). It has been reflected also in the original New Year’s greetings card, which they sent to our BioModel address. There is the BioModel’s comment: we are fully support the good initiative, and [...]

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The UN declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB). Throughout the year countless initiatives will be organized to disseminate …
Illustration by V.Prydatko-Dolin

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Ellobius talpinus Pall. – Northern Mole Vole – will be the next animal for a GLM-scenario to be done by the BioModel Group. The illustration source: “Элементы” – http://elementy.ru/news/430600, and which is based on ‘Е. А. Новиков. Экономия ресурсов как основа адаптации обыкновенной слепушонки (Ellobius talpinus: Rodentia) к подземному образу жизни // Журнал общей биологии. [...]

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The postcard watercolor is presented by Arctic-in-Art

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In corridors (new publications): Zagorodniuk I. Mammal of Carpathians in the Red Data book of Ukraine 2009. — Species composition of mammal fauna of the Ukrainian Carpathians is considered. In total, there are 78 mammal species from 19 families. Previous checklist of Carpathian mammals (1977) was revised towards its reduction at the cost of 5 [...]

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