http://biomodel.org.ua East Europe, Ukraine region: Biodiversity modelling, Species distribution models, Climate change, Education. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:00:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://biomodel.org.ua/?p=2515 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 ... http://biomodel.org.ua/?p=2496 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 ... http://biomodel.org.ua/?p=2482 April 12-15: the XVII International conference «Lomonosov» BioModel has presented results of SDM-approach for East Europe.  Thesis is available in russian. http://biomodel.org.ua/?p=2489 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 ... http://biomodel.org.ua/?p=2459 The article about the global-biodiversity-assessment-model-GLOBIO3 is available here, see BioModel 'Publications' section - http://biomodel.org.ua/?page_id=2439. (source) http://biomodel.org.ua/?p=2447 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. http://biomodel.org.ua/?p=2390 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 ... http://biomodel.org.ua/?p=2402 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 ... http://biomodel.org.ua/?p=2368 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 http://biomodel.org.ua/?p=2350