Overview of Research Activities of ARICFR, Team CR72004-2005

M. Palenova – team leaderV. Korotkov

S. RipaE. Zubkova,

All-Russian Research Institute of Silviculture and Mechanization of Forestry

Research Activities Review and comparison of silvicultural

systems Provides the base-line data for the

case studies Application of existing models to

concepts of sustainability Application of silvicultural models in

two case studies Analysis and identification of optimal

natural resource management strategies

Review and comparison of silvicultural systems

Korotkov V.N. published paper “Forest management planning and forest inventory in the Russian Federation in the period of transition” for the International workshop "Forest Management Planning Status and Changes after Political and Economical Transformation in Central Europe", Białowieża, Poland, 10 - 12 March 2004

Palenova M.M. prepared review of Russian silvicultural systems

How we will compare different silvicultural systems and finalise review?

Provides the base-line data for the case studies Database of forest inventory data for

Chuchloma FMU (Kostroma region), Russkii Les FMU (Moscow region) and other databases were available for all participants of the project

We prepared databases for EFISCEN: growth tables, ages of maturity (cuttings), rules of forest management, volume of intermediate and final cuttings, AAC, etc.

Continuation of analysis of spatially-distributed forest inventory and prognostic databases using ForRus (analytical interface) , GIS Topol, Common GIS

M. Palenova prepared draft of the paper “Exploratory interactive analysis of spatio-temporal forecasting data for evaluation of forest biodiversity” - attempt find integral indexes of biodiversity with using powerful instruments: ForRus and CommonGIS

Indexes for integral evaluation of forest biodiversity Number of tree species on

subcompartment (vydel) Layer structure (1-layer stand, 2-layer

stand and 3-layer stand) The share of dominant tree species

volume in a tree layer Relative age of dominant tree species

(ratio age of tree and age of maturity) Presence of zonal edificator tree species

in tree layer and undergrowth layer

Using CommonGIS for integral evaluation of forest biodiversity

Integral evaluation of forest biodiversity

Protection scenario Legal practice scenario Illegal practice scenario

Evaluation of biodiversity:

Dark – good

Light – bad

Prognosis of area of tree stand without and with shrub and herb layers (20 steps = 100 years)

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Presentations at Conferences International conference transformation to continuous cover forestry in a

changing environment and EFI 11th annual conference, 4 - 6 September 2004, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom (Palenova M.M.)

International Conference Modeling Forest Production Scientific Tools (Data Needs and Sources – Validation and Application), 19–22 April 2004, University of Natural Resources, Vienna, Austria (Palenova M.M.)

6th meeting of the UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists to monitor and develop assistance to countries of Central and Eastern Europe in transition in the forest and forest products sector, Warsaw, Poland, 3-6 March 2004 (Korotkov V.N.)

International workshop "Forest Management Planning Status and Changes after Political and Economical Transformation in Central Europe", Białowieża, Poland, 10 - 12 March 2004 (Korotkov V.N.)

6th meeting of the Technical consultation committee of Montréal Process on Criteria and Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests, 7-11 June 2004, Puerto Iguazú, Argentina (Korotkov V.N.)

Forest Landscape Restoration in Central and Northern Europe, 6-8 October 2004, Hämeenlinna, Finland (Korotkov V.N.)

16th Meeting of Working Group on Criteria and Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests (Montréal Process), Jasper, Alberta, Canada, October 18-21, 2004 (Korotkov V.N.)

Publications 8 parts in the book: East European forest: history in Holocene and modernity.

Ed. by O.V. Smirnova. 2 book. Moscow: Nauka, 2004. (in Russian). Korotkov, V.N. National report of the Russian Federation // International

workshop “Forest management planning status and changes after political and economic transformation in Central Europe”. Workshop proceedings. Bialowieza, Poland, 10-12 March 2004. – Warsaw, 2004. – P. 63–82.

Korotkov, V.N. Necessity of international cooperation to combat illegal logging in the Russian Federation // Proceeding. Regional Workshop on strengthening the Asia Forest Partnership. Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 30 August – 1 September 2004. – P. 335–338.

Chumachenko S.I., Korotkov V.N., Palenova M.M., Zobkov V.V., Politov D.V. Model FORRUS-S: simulation of dynamics of forest ecosystems. / // Proceedings of International Conference Modeling Forest Production Scientific Tools (Data Needs and Sources – Validation and Application). 19–22, April 2004. University of Natural Resources, Vienna, Austria. – 2004. – P. 44.

Korotkov, V.N. Restoration of polydominant spruce-broadleaved forests after long-term economic use in the “island” forest tracts of Moscow region, Russia // Workshop «Forest Landscape Restoration in Central and Northern Europe». 6–8 October 2004. Hämeenlinna, Finland (in press)

Palenova M.M., Korotkov V.N, Ripa S.I., Chumachenko S.I. and Politov D.V. Exploratory interactive analysis of spatio-temporal forecasting data for evaluation forest biodiversity. In Proceedings of International conference transformation to continuous cover forestry in a changing environment and EFI 11th annual conference, 4 - 6 September 2004, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom. (In press)

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