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.
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