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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April 12-15: the XVII International conference «Lomonosov»
BioModel has presented results of SDM-approach for East Europe.  Thesis is available in russian.

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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 summit took place just under 80 days before the start of the UN Copenhagen conference. The Secretary-General of the United Nations Mr. Ban Ki-moon stressed: “Climate change is the pre-eminent geopolitical and economic issue of the 21st century” and “We will pay an unacceptable price if we do not act now” [UN]. BioModel comments: [...]

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WITHIN 60 years the Arctic Ocean could be a stagnant, polluted soup. Without drastic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, the Transpolar Drift, one of the Arctic’s most powerful currents and a key disperser of pollutants, is likely to disappear because of global warming. These dramatic predictions have been made by Yongqi Gaoa, Helge Drangeb, Ola M. [...]

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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 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [...]

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UN GC published new [Survey on Climate Change Perceptions in Ukraine. Kyiv: UN GC, 2009.–57 p.] – pdf. BioModel took part in it. UN GC – The Global Compact is a network-based initiative which aims to promote responsible corporate citizenship and enlists the support of the business sector in achieving a more sustainable and equitable [...]

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Students write about… Pasteruk V.V. Geoinformatic technologies usage for evaluation of climate change impact to areal of indicative plant species, which locations are inside of the NULES Network (Kyivska Oblast, Ukraine). The Bachelor Research for the Specialty 6.092900-EcoBioTechnology. Kyiv: NULES, 2009.−76 p. (Manuscript, resume Ukr). Key words: GLM, EEBIO, plant species, climate change.

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Thre is popular extract of a cartographical EEBIO-model ‘Polar Bear’  that was produced by the BioModel group in 2006, but published in 2008 – more details.

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