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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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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Coming soon: new bioodiversity modelling (training) meeting in Dakar, Senegal (Decemebr 11-13, 2009). BioModel team is invited to take part in the event with presentation of its activity results.

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More details about the competition (ukr.)

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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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In his IDB message of May 22, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon said: “… The most cost-effective and feasible method of control is prevention. To be successful, this strategy requires collaboration among Governments, economic sectors and non-governmental and international organizations. A country can only prevent invasions if it knows which species [...]

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Students write about… Starushyk N.S. Indicative-index approaches application for forest ecosystems research in the Boyarka Forestry Experimental Station Manufacturing Firm. The Bachelor Research for the Specialty 8.070801-Ecology-and-Nature-Conservation. Kyiv: NULES, 2009.−70 p. (Manuscript, resume)

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Application for biodiversity modelling purposes in Ukraine LCCD index: publications summary (supportive data for students of the National University of Life Sciences, Kyiv) – more details. *LCCD – land cover classification density.

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April 8-9, 2009: The National Conference-2009 for Young Scientists took place in central office of the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NASU (Kyiv). Participants demostrated 61 scientific reports on fauna investigation and conservation, taxonomy, ecology, animal morphology, paleontology, zoogeography. BioModel Team has presented to the conference some previous results of SDM – species (mammals) destribution modelling [...]

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