INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS, GRANTS AND AGREEMENTS OF V. N. SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FORESTS

 

 

    1. FORESTS OF RIVER SELENGA BASIN, THEIR EFFICIENT UTILIZATION AND 

       REPRODUCTION

Project duration: 1990 - 1996

Project Directors: Yu. N. Krasnoshchekov (Russia); Ch. Dugarzhav (Mongolia)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Institute of Botany, Mongolian Academy of Sciences; Scientific Research Institute of Forest and Hunting of Mongolia

Funding: Russian and Mongolian Expedition

Chart making of the present-day state of Mongolian forest ecosystems has been carried out in the scale 1:200 000.

 

   2. SUBARCTIC DENDROCLIMATIC PROFILE

Project duration: 1991 - 1993

Project Directors: E. A. Vaganov (Russia); F. Schweingruber (Switzerland)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Funding: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Long-term chronologies of tree- rings for subarctic Yakutian area have been obtained. The reconstruction and a comparative analysis of the summer temperature variability have been made for the north of Krasnoyarsk krai and Yakutia.

 

3. DEVELOPMENT OF STATISTICAL AND SIMULATION MODEL OF TREE GROWTH AND

   PRODUCTIVITY

Project duration: 1992 - 1996

Project Directors: E. A. Vaganov, A. V. Shashkin (Russia); M. Hughes (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

Funding: University of Arizona

A simulation model of growth and structure of conifer tree rings has been developed.

 

4. TO ISOLATE, IDENTIFY AND EVALUATE MICROSPORIDIA

      FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF THE GYPSY MOTH

Project duration: 1993

Project Directors: Yu. N. Baranchikov (Russia); M. L. McManus (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Funding: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.

Microsporidia species that infect Gypsy moth caterpillars have been distinguished and identified.

 

  5. MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE ON GYPSY MOTH AND OTHER FOREST

     PESTS

Project duration: 1993

Project Directors: Yu. N. Baranchikov (Russia); M. E. Montgomery (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Funding: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Scientific papers have been compiled and translated. The review on forest pests has been written.

 

  6.EFFECTS OF GYPSY MOTH POPULATION DENSITY AND INSECT CHARACTERISTICS UPON FEMALE FLIGHT CAPABILITY AND DISTANCE IN NORTHERN ASIA

Project duration: 1993

Project Directors: Yu. N. Baranchikov (Russia); W. Å. Wallner (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Funding: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Studying factors that effect the ability of gypsy moth to the flight in nature and in laboratory has been carried out.

 

     7. APPLICATION OF AERIAL VIDEO IMAGERY FOR MONITORING OF FOREST STATE

        SYSTEM OF SIBERIA

Project duration: 1993-1994

Project Directors: V. I. Kharuk (Russia); R. Paivel (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Funding: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

A new method of monitoring boreal forests using aerial video imagery has been developed.

     8. BIOCHEMICAL BASES OF INTERACTIONS OF PLANTS AND INSECTS-PHYTOPHAGOUS

 Project duration: 1993-1994

Project Directors: V. I. Osipov (Russia); E. Haukioya (Finland)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Turku University, Finland

Funding: Turku University

Studying protective mechanisms which make difficult leaf eating of trees  by the leaf – and needle biting insects has been performed.

 

9. DEVELOPMENT OF STAND PROGNOSIS MODELS FOR USE IN FOREST INVENTORY

   AND ANALYSIS

Project duration: 1993 - 1995

Project Directors: G. B. Kofman (Russia); R. Birdsey (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Northeastern Forest Experiment

Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Funding: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Inventory of Siberian forests has been accomplished, growth and productivity of tree stands have been studied.

 

    10. COMPARISON OF SOIL AND WOOD CHEMISTRY AND ROOT DYNAMICS IN SPRUCE FIR

        STANDS IN POLLUTED AND PRISTINE SITES

Project duration: 1993 - 1995

Project Directors: V. A. Alexeyev (Russia); W. Shortle (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Funding: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Studying chemical structure of soils, timber and roots in the spruce- fir forests in contaminated and normal (control) regions of Siberia has been realized.

11. EFFECTS OF GLOBAL CHANGE ON BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING AND PRODUCTIVITY IN

    SIBERIAN FORESTS AND NORTHEAST U. S. FORESTS

Project duration: 1993 - 1995

Project Directors: V. A. Alexeyev (Russia); Ch. Eagar (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Funding: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Biochemical cycles of the main chemical elements have been studied. Chemical precipitation and soils have been sampled and analyzed.

 

    12. CARBON BUDGET IN BOREAL FORESTS

Project duration: 1993 - 1996

Project Directors: V. A. Alexeyev (Russia); R. Birdsey (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Funding: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Carbon stocks in boreal forests of Russia under global climate change have been assessed.

 

    13. FOREST PLANT RESOURCES OF SIBERIA AND THEIR UTILIZATION

Project duration: 1993 - 1996

Project Directors: V. A. Sokolov (Russia); S. Nilsson (Austria)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria

Funding: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Data banks in phytomass and structure of tree stands have been compiled. Methods and standards of forest utilization have been developed. Ecological and economical assessment of forest resources has been realized. Prediction of forest fund dynamics has been made.

 

    14. SUSCEPTIBILITY OF HOST PLANTS TO THE ASIAN, NORTH AMERICAN AND   

        EUROPEAN RACES OF GYPSY MOTH

Project duration: 1993 - 1997

Project Directors: Yu. N. Baranchikov (Russia); M. E. Montromery (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Northeastern Forest Experiment

Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Funding: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

A comparison of the relative rate of the pest population growth from three continents – Europe, Asia and North America has been made. Distinctions in the mechanisms of trophic adaptation of gypsy moth larvae of different age have been found.

 

           15. DENDROCLIMATIC STUDIES OF SIBERIAN BOREAL FORESTS

Project duration: 1994 - 1995

Project Directors: E. A. Vaganov (Russia); M. Hughes (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson

Funding: USA State Department

A model of the tree growth response to climatic components for the northern part of Siberia has been developed. Prediction of the tree growth response and of dynamics of forest ecosystems under local, regional and global climate changes has been made. Dendroclimatic  regioning the Siberian area has been realized.

 

    16. RECONSTRUCTION OF SUMMER TEMPERATURES IN EURO-ASIAN BOREAL FORESTS

        AND LOCAL ANTHROPOGENICAL CHANGES IN RUSSIA BY DENDROCHRONOLOGIC

        METHODS USING

Project duration: 1994 - 1996

Coordinator: K. R. Briffa (United Kingdom)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Division RAS;  Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research;

University of East Anglia, Laboratory of Climate; Lund University (Sweden)

Funding: INTAS Foundation and Swiss National Scientific Foundation

A network of the testing polygons (grounds) for the Siberian subarctic area has been established. Tree- ring chronologies with duration from 200 to 670 years have been built. The reconstruction of the average June- July temperature for the last 500 years has been developed. Temperature anomaly map of summer temperatures since 1611 to 1990 have been made for Siberian subarctic area.

 

     17. AEROSOLE OF FOREST FIRE IN SIBERIA

Project duration: 1994 - 1996

Project Directors: E. N. Valendik, K. P. Koutsenogii (Russia)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Institute of Chemical Kinetics

and Combustion SB RAS; Institute of Inorganic Chemistry SB RAS;

Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS; Computer Centre of  Krasnoyarsk Scientific Centre SB RAS;  Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tomsk Polytechnic Institute;

Institute of Atmospheric Physics of  the Guteberg University, Mainz (Germany);

Max  Planck  Institute for Chemistry, Freiburg, Germany;

Chemistry Department of the Antwerp University (Belgium); NASA (USA)

Funding: NASA

Regularities of formation, transformation and extension of forest fire aerosols in Siberian region at the local, regional and global levels have been studied. Their influence on the atmospheric air quality as well as the level of environment pollution has been assessed.

 

      18. A MANUAL IN THE MAJOR INSECT PESTS OF NORTHERN ASIAN FORESTS

Project duration: 1994 - 1997

Project Directors: Yu. N. Baranchikov (Russia); M. Å. Montgomery (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service

Fundings: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service

A reference-book in the main insect-pest species of the Northern Asian forests has been compiled. Information on distribution, ecology and detrimental influence of the main pest species has been prepared.

 

      19. SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY IN THE KRASNOYARSK KRAI REGION OF CENTRAL

          SIBERIA

Project duration: 1994 - 1998

Project Directors: E. S. Petrenko, F. I. Pleshikov, A. B. Buzykin (Russia); A. Gillespie (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; the Forest Committee of Krasnoyarsk krai; Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service

Funding: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service

The project has combined joint efforts of the Russian and American researchers in studying Siberian forests. The scientific- methodological concept of the ecosystem management of boreal forests based on GIS- technologies has been developed.

 

      20. EFFECTS OF FIRE IN PINE FORESTS OF EURASIA

Project duration: 1994 - 1998 

Project Directors: G. A. Ivanova (Russia); S. Conard (USA); T. Karlikowski (Poland)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; U. S. Department of Agriculture,

Forest Service; Forest Research Institute, Warsaw (Poland)

Fundings: United States Department of Agriculture

The international experiment on the complex studying long- term consequences of forest fires in boreal forests of Siberia has been realized. Data for constructing empirical models of ecosystem processes of aerosol dynamics, carbon balance, forest fire behavior has been obtained.

 

      21. FOREST FIRES FEATURES AND THEIR INFLUENCES ON CARBON CYCLE AND TREE

          GROWTH IN THE CENTRAL SIBERIA

Project duration: 1994 - 2000

Project Directors: A. P. Abaimov (Russia); Yo. Kanazawa, K. Takahashi (Japan)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Hokkaido Research Centre

Fundings: Agency on Environment of Japan;

Hokkaido Research Centre of Forestry and Forest Products Reseach Institute

The project has been intended for solving problems related to studying forests in the permafrost zone in assessment of carbon stock, its dynamics under forest fires, tendencies of the forest post- fire regenerative successions, pyrogenic transformation of biological diversity.

 

       22. SPACIAL PATTERNS OF FIRE-CAUSED DISTURBANCE OF MOUNTAIN FOREST

           ECOSYSTEMS IN SIBERIA

Project duration: 1995 -1996

Project Directors: E. N. Valendik (Russia); S. Conard (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service

Fundings: Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service

Experiments with the control burnings in the cutting areas for the purpose of reducing fire danger, its duration and also for efficient afforestation of burnt areas have been carried out.

       23. GIS - TAIGA

Project duration: 1995 - 1997

Project Directors: A. I. Sukhinin (Russia)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; International Institute of Forest, Moscow; Forest Service, USA; Canadian Forest Service

Fundings: NASA

Resources of the modern satellite systems have been used for solving strategical  tasks of monitoring forest fires. In common with NASA the procedure for determining the fire index according to data from NOAA satellites to assess the fire area and intensity as well as to establish the data bank.

 

       24. A LEXICON OF ENGLISH-RUSSIAN AND RUSSIAN-ENGLISH TERMS IN FOREST 

           ENTOMOLOGY AND FOREST PROTECTION

Project duration: 1995 - 1998

Project Directors: Yu. N. Baranchikov (Russia); D. Kuceraà (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service

Fundings: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service

The LEXICON of scientific terms in forest entomology and forest protection in Russian and English languages has been compiled.

 

      25. DENDROCLIMATOLOGICAL VARIABILITY AND ASSOCIATED NATURAL CLIMATES 

          IN EURASIA – THE LAST 10.000 YEARS (ADVANCE-10K)

Project duration: 1996 - 1998

Coordinator: K. R. Briffa (United Kingdom)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Division RAS;

Participants and collaborators: 10 dendrochronological laboratories and groups from 8 countries of Europe.

Fundings: The Commission of the European Communities of Directorate-General for Science Research and Development in the field of Environment and Climate

Super- long tree ring chronologies have been built for the areas of Northern Europe and Northern Russia. These chronologies cover the whole period of the Holocene (10 000 years long).

 

       26. NATURAL VARIABILITY OF SUMMER TEMPERATURE IN THE SIBERIAN

           SUBARCTIC RECORDED IN TREE RINGS

Project duration: 1996 -1998

Project Directors: E. A. Vaganov (Russia); M. Hughes (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

Fundings: CRDF – United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation

         A long tree ring chronology for the Yakutian Subarctic – the center of circumpolar area of the northern hemisphere - has been built. A statistical approach of climatic response functions as well as a simulation model for forming tree rings has been used for analysis of relation of variability of growth and climate.

 

      27. STUDY OF THE GENETICS OF THE THREE MAIN LARCH SPECIES WITHIN RUSSIA

          AND INTRODUCTION OF THESE SPECIES INTO FENNOSCANDIA

Project duration: 1996 - 1999

Project Directors: L. I. Milyutin (Russia); Owe Martinsson (Sweden); Jaap Buitink (Norway)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Tomsk Branch of V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; NPO “Nauka-Service”, Yakutsk (Russia);

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea; Helgeland Skogsellskap, Mosjoen, Norway

Fundings: Barents Euro-Arctic Region Foundation

The project is aimed at solving problems related to introduction of larch trees in Fennoscandia. The experiments did not have the sufficient well- grounded genetic and ecological bases owing to data shortage on tree stands where larch seeds were collected.

 

      28. EFFECT OF  MEASURES FOR THE CONTROL OF SIBERIAN MOTH POPULATIONS

          ON STRANGE TAIGA INSECT SPECIES

Project duration: 1996 - 1998

Project Directors: Yu. N. Baranchikov (Russia); N. Dyubua (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service; Abbot Laboratory, USA

Funding: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service

The project is aimed at studying effect of chemical and bacteriological treatment of Siberian moth foci on strange organisms and biota diversity of the dark-coniferous taiga forests. Ecological consequences of large-scale Siberian moth control using pyretroid and bacteriological preparations have been assessed.

 

      29. MONITORING TREE GROWTH AND SIMULATION MODELING TO PREDICT FOREST

          DECLINE DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING AND AIR POLLUTION

Project duration: 1996 - 2000

Project Directors: E. A. Vaganov (Russia); Won-Kyu Park (Republic of Korea)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

College of Agriculture, Chungbuk National University, Korea

Fundings: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Korea

Based on modeling the response prediction of three conifer species to the expected climate changes on the Korean peninsula (the increase of spring and early-summer temperatures) has been made.

 

      30. PROMOTION OF FOREST AND WOOD SCIENCES IN THE URAL REGION AND

          WESTERN SIBERIA TO MITIGATE THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGES ON

          LONGTERM FOREST DEVELOPMENT

Project duration: 1997 - 1998

Project Directors: E. A. Vaganov (Russia); R. Lassig (Switzeland)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

The Ural State Forestry Engineering Academy; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Fundings: Swiss National Scientific Foundation and Russian Foundation of Basic Research

Instrumentation for carrying out joint scientific studies in dendroecology and dendroclimatology has been purchased. The collective monograph “Dendroecological studies in the Urals and West Siberia has been prepared.

 

     31. DEVELOPMENT OF THE MONITORING SYSTEM OF SIBERIAN MOTH POPULATIONS

         USING SEX PHEROMONES

Project duration: 1997 - 1999

Project Directors: Yu. N. Baranchikov (Russia); V. Mastro, A. Radgenovich, J. Klun (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Garantine station of plants and animals, USA;

Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service; Centre of Agricultural Research, USA

Funding: Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service

The project objective is to identify active components of sex pheromone of Siberian moth females, to synthesize an analog of a pheromone and to develop the procedure of the pheromone monitoring the pest population density.

 

        32. MULTI-MILLENIAL TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES IN HIGH-LATITUDE 

                              SIBERIA: RECONSTRUCTING HOLOCENE TEMPERATURES AND RECENT BIOMASS

            CHANGES

Project duration: 1998 - 2000

Coordinator: K. R. Briffa (United Kingdom)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Division RAS; University of East Anglia; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest,

Snow and Landscape Research (Switzerland)

Fundings: INTAS Foundation

Long-term (for the Holocene period) tree-ring chronologies have been constructed for the east of Taimyr. A detailed reconstruction of the early- summer and average annual air temperature for the last 2000 years has been executed. Long warming periods in the east of Taimyr have been found which are synchronous to the warming periods of the Northern Hemisphere.

 

        33. TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NORTH-EASTERN EURASIA FOR

            SEVERAL MILLENNIA

Project duration: 1999 - 2000

Project Directors: E. A. Vaganov (Russia); M. Hughes (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

Funding: NSF Foundation

Tree- ring chronologies long more than 2500 years good for the complex reconstruction of temperature change in the north- east of Yakutia have been built. 

        34. INSECT- PARASITES OF GYPSY MOTH AND OTHER LYMANTRIIDAE SPECIES IN

            THE NORTHERN ASIA

Project duration: 1999 - 2000

Project Directors: Yu. N. Baranchikov (Russia); R. Fuster (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Centre of Agricultural Research, USA

Funding: United States Department of Agriculture

Species composition of parasites of the south-Siberian population of Gypsy moth  at stages of larva and pupa elder ages has been revealed. Collection of parasites has been made and regional peculiarities of their biology has been studied.

 

       35. CLIMATIC FACTORS FOR MONITORING GEOGRAPHICAL VARIABILITY OF

           SIBERIAN CONIFERS: SELECTED OPTIMAL AND PRODUCTIVE PROVENANCES AS

           THE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE 

Project duration: 1999 - 2000

Project Directors: L. I. Milyutin (Russia); G. N. Rehfeldt (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Rocky Mountain and Pacific Northwest Research Stations, USDA Forest Service, Moscow

Funding: USDA Forest Service

Data on growth and resistance of conifer climatypes in provenance trials as well as climatic information on the regions of their origin have been collected.

       36. EURASIA – NET: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A JOINT EUROPE

           –ASIA COLLABORATION IN UNDERSTANDING CARBON AND WATER EXCHANGES

                           OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS

Project duration: 1999 - 2000

Coordinator: R. Valentini (Italy)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy; Max Plank Institute for Global Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany; DLO Winand Staring Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,

Beijing, China; Institute For Atmospheric-Hydrospheric Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan

Fundings: European Union Foundation

The project is aimed at measuring ÑÎ2 and water stems over the different tree stand types for assessing carbon balance in forest ecosystems.

 

        37. MAPPING SIBERIAN LANDSCAPES: NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS 

            AFFECTING CARBON BALANCE

Project duration: 1999 - 2002

Project Directors: V. I. Kharuk (Russia); K. J. Ranson (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; NASA, Maryland, USA

Fundings: NASA

The project is aimed at studying formational tree stand composition based on analysis of polarization and amplitude characteristics of diffused radiation within 6 and 23 cm. The procedure for assessing tree stand biomass has been elaborated.

 

       38. LEAF AREA INDEX IN FIRE CHRONOSEQUENSES OF SIBERIAN BOREAL FORESTS

Project duration: 1999 – 2002

Project Directors: V. I. Kharuk (Russia); D. Deering (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; NASA, Maryland, USA

Fundings: NASA

Measurement of leaf area indices and spectral coefficients of omitting by the dark-coniferous tree stands in the control and those gone by fire has been carried out.

 

       39. MODELING AND MONITORING EFFECTS OF AREA BURN AND FIRE SEVERITYON

           CARBON CYCLING. EMISSIONS, AND FOREST HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY IN

           CENTRAL SIBERIA

Project duration: 1999 - 2004

Project Directors: G. A. Ivanova (Russia); S. Conard (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Fundings: United States Department of Agriculture

The project is aimed at studying the long- term consequences and reconstruction of fire chronology, also at creating empirical models of ecosystem processes, aerosol dynamics and carbon balance as well as tree stand falling down.

 

       40. CENTRAL SIBERIAN SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT

Project duration: 1999 - 2004

Project Directors: F. I. Pleshikov (Russia); S. Eubanks (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, Radnor

Fundings: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service

A contemporary strategy for sustainable and ecologically grounded forest management in boreal forests of Siberia is being elaborated.

 

      41. TREE RING MEASUREMENTS AND NDVI AS INDICATORS OF FOREST GROWTH IN

          SIBERIA INFLUENCED BY VARYING CLIMATE

Project duration: 2000-2001

Project Directors: E. A. Vaganov (Russia); M. Hughes (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

Fundings: CRDF – United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation

The project has studied interrelations between tree ring sizes and NDVI as the two independent indicators of tree growth. Assessment of their potential has been given to study variability of the tree growth.

 

      42. CLIMATE IN RELATION TO CARBON ACCUMULATION: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL

          ANALYSES OF WEST SIBERIAN PEAT ECOSYSTEMS (CIRCA)

Project duration: 2000 - 2003

Coordinator: V. Bleuten (the Netherlands)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Tomsk State University;

Institute of Geography RAS;  Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry SB RAS

Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands; Botanical Institute, University of Greifswald,

Germany

Fundings: INTAS Foundaton

The project is aimed at development of conceptual model, which describes climate changes at the West-Siberian plain in the Holocene. The model will allow to predict carbon budget and its accumulation with the peat of West-Siberia in connection with global climate changes.

 

       43. SPATIAL- TEMPORAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY IN KOREA IN THE PAST AND IN

           THE PRESENT TIME OBTAINED ON THE BASE OF TREE- RING CHRONOLOGIES:

                           EXPERIMENTAL, STATISTIC AND GIS APPROACHES

Project duration: 2000 - 2005

Project Directors: E. A. Vaganov (Russia); Won-Kyu Park (Republic of Korea)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

College of Agriculture, Chungbuk National University, Korea

Fundings: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Korea

The aim of the project is to build a network of dendroclimatic stations in the southern Korea area, to make a comparative analysis of statistic and simulation modeling results of seasonal and year-to-year growth and to predict the Korean tree response to regional climate change.

 

       44. LASER PROFILING FOR SIBERIAN FORESTS

Project duration: 2000 - 2005

Project Directors: I. M. Danilin (Russia), T. Sweda (Japan)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Ehime University, Japan

Fundings: Ehime University, Japan

The aim of the project is a wide-scale assessment of tree stands, forest biomass and leaf area index in Siberia using the air-borne laser altimeter- profilograph.

 

                  45. THE BOOK “TREE PLANTS OF SIBERIA”

Project duration: 2000 - 2005

Project Directors: R. I. Loskutov (Russia), J. Bak (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan,USA

Fundings: University of Michigan

The information on biological peculiarities of trees and bushes of Siberia have been collected in the book.

     

       46. STUDIES OF PRODUCTIVITY AND STRUCTURE OF TAIGA ECOSYSTEMS IN

           CENTRAL  SIBERIA

Project duration: 2000 - 2005

Project Directors: A. P. Abaimov (Russia); Y. Kanazawa, K. Takahashi (Japan)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Hokkaido Research Centre

Fundings: Hokkaido Research Centre of Forestry and Forest Products Reseach Institute

The aim of the project is carrying out joint studies on productivity and structure of taiga ecosystems, vegetation dynamics and nitrogen cycle.

 

       47. STRUCTURE OF CONIFER TREE-RINGS AS AN INDICATOR of ENVIRONMENTAL

           CHANGES IN CENTRAL SIBERIA

Project duration: 2001

Project Director: A. V. Kirdyanov  

Fundings: INTAS Foundation (Personal Grant)

Analysis of tree-ring chronologies of conifers in the north of Central Siberia as well as reconstruction of tree growing site in the past have been made.

 

   48. PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS FROM FOREST FIRES

       CLOSE TO INHABITED LOCALITIES(BASED ON VEGETATION FUEL MAPS)  

Project duration: 2001-2002

Project Director: A. V. Volokitina

Fundings: McKarthur’s Foundation (Personal Grant)                        

The project is aimed at elaboration and publication of practical recommendations for protecting inhabited localities from forest fires.

 

       49. MODELING AND MONITORING EFFECTS OF AREA BURN AND FIRE SEVERITY ON

           CARBON CYCLING, EMISSION, AND FOREST HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY IN

           CENTRAL SIBERIA

Project duration: 2002 - 2004

Project Directors: G. A. Ivanova (Russia); S. Conard (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion SB RAS;

U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Fundings: CRDF – United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation

The project foresees modeling forest fires, studying their effect on carbon cycle, emissions and sustainability of forest ecosystems.

 

    50. Early response areas for climate change in eurasia –

        SPACIO-TEMPORAL dynamics of upper tree-line in the ural mountains

        and implications for carbon sequestration

Project duration: 2002 - 2005

Coordinator: A. Rigling (Switzerland)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; The Ural State Forestry

Engineering Academy; The Ural State Forestry Engineering Academy; Institute of Plant

and Animal Ecology, Ural Division RAS;  Botanical Garden, Ural Division RAS;

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zuerich; University of Bayreuth, Institute of Soil Science and Soil Geography (Germany)

Funding: INTAS Foundation

The project is aimed at studying impact of changing environmental regimes on forest ecosystems at the upper timberline on the Urals and in Central Siberia.

 

      51. TERRESTRIAL CARBON OBSERVING SYSTEM (TCOS SIBERIA)

Project duration: 2002 - 2004

Project Directors: E. A. Vaganov (Russia); E.-D. Schulze (Germany)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems RAS;

Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone SB RAS;

Pacific Institute of Geography Far East Branch RAS, Chersky, Yakutia;

Tuvinian Institute for the Exploration of Natural Resources SB RAS;

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Muenchen, Germany;

Max Plank Institute for Global Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany;

Ruprech-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany; Alterra Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands;

University of Groningen, Netherlands; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France;

University of Tusñia, Viterbo, Italy

Fundings: European Union Foundation

The project is aimed at system organization of carbon observations in Siberia in frame of a special research program in studying energy, environment and stable development.

 

        52. SIBERIA-II: MULTI-SENSOR CONCEPTS FOR GREENHOUSE GAS ACCOUNTING

            OF NORTHERN EURASIA

Project duration: 2002 - 2005

Coordinator:  K. Kuebel (Germany)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany; Detsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt,

Koeln (Germany); International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria;

Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (France); University of Sheffield, United Kingdom;

University of Wales Swansea, United Kingdom;

Natural Environment Research Council, Swindon, United Kingdom;

Technical University, Wien Austria; Gamma Remote Sensing Centre, Bern, Switzerland;

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany

Fundings: European Union Foundation

The objective of the project is modeling and demonstrating stability of the full carbon balance for boreal forest area of the Eurasian north.

 

         53. THE GLOBAL AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORK (AERONET)

Project duration: 2001-2006

Project Directors: A. I. Sukhinin (Russia); B. N. Holben (USA)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; NASA (USA)

The objective of the project is mounting, operating and keeping in the working regime solar photometer for steady monitoring the control of atmospheric aerosol and water steam content in the air as well as of solar photometry.

 

        54. CARBON CYCLE AND CLIMATE CHANGE - OBSERVING THE LONG-TERM

            DYNAMICS (CCCOLD)

Project duration: 2001-2011

Project Directors: O. B. Shibistova (Russia); D. Shimel (Germany)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

The project foresees using ecological parameters for studying interaction processes between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems in climatic systems typical for Eurasia.

 

        55. FOREST ECOSYSTEMS OF MONGOLIA

Project duration: 2001-2011

Project Directors: Yu. N. Krasnoschekov (Russia); Ch. Dugarzhav (Mongolia)

Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

Institute of Botany, Mongolian Academy of Sciences

Funding: Russian and Mongolian Expedition

The aim of the project is to carry out joint studies in forest ecosystems of Mongolia which are one of the components of the Baikal basin and which realize important environmental functions.

 

        56. GROWTH AND SEED REPRODUCTION OF CEMBRA GROUP PINES IN NATURAL

            STANDS AND ON EXPERIMENTAL SITES

Project duration: 2002 – 2007

Project Directors:S. N. Goroshkevich (Russia); Liu-Gui-Feng (China)

Organizations: Tomsk Branch of V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS;

North-Eastern University of Forest, Ministry of Education of China

The project is aimed at studying Cembra pine growth and seed reproduction in Tomsk oblast and in some regions of China.