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	1. FORESTS OF THE 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 AS; 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 MODELS 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, USDA 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, USDA Forest Service. Funding: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA 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. A. Wallner (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service Funding: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service Studying factors that effect the ability of gypsy moth to the flight in nature and in laboratory has been carried out. 7. USE OF THE AERIAL VIDEO IMAGERY FOR MONITORINGOF SIBERIAN FOREST STATE 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, USDA 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 INTERECTIONS 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 RESOURSES 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 the 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 OF THE MAJOR INSECT PESTS OF NORTHERN ASIAN FORESTS Project duration: 1994 - 1997 Project Directors: Yu. N. Baranchikov (Russia); M. A. Montgomery (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service Funding: 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) Funding: 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 behaviour 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 Funding: Agency on Environment of Japan; Hokkaido Research Centre of Forestry and Forest Products Research 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 Funding: 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 Funding: 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. THE 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. Kucera (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service Funding: 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. 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 Funding: 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 THE LONG- TERM FOREST DEVELOPMENT Project duration: 1997 - 1998 Project Directors: E. A. Vaganov (Russia); R. Laessig (Switzerland) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; The Ural State Forestry Engineering Academy; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research Funding: 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; Служба карантина растений и животных США; 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 THE 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 OG 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, (Russia); Rocky Mountain and Pacific Northwest Research Stations, USDA Forest Service, (USA) 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 Project Coordinator: R. Valentini (Italy) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, (Russia); University of Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy); Max Planck 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) Funding: European Union Foundation The project is aimed at measuring СО2 and water stems over the different tree stand types for assessing carbon balance in forest ecosystems. 37. DENDROCLIMATOLOGICAL VARIABILITY AND ASSOCIATED NATURAL CLIMATES IN EURASIA - THE LAST 10 000 YEARS (ADVANCE - 10K) Project duration: 1996 - 1998 Project Coordinator: K. R.Briffa (United Kingdom) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, the Urals Branch of RAS; 10 dendrochronological laboratories and groups from 8 countries of Europe Funding: the Commission of the European communities of the 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). 38. NATURAL VARIABILITY OF SUMMER TEMPERATURE IN SIBERIAN SUBARCTIC RECORDED IN TREE RINGS Project duration: 1996 - 1998 Project Directors: Vaganov E.A. (Russia), Hughes M.K. (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Laboratory of Tree Ring Research University of Arizona Tucson USA Funding: 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. 39. STUDY OF GENETICS OF THE THREE MAIN LARCH SPECIES WITHIN RUSSIA AND INTRODUCTION OF THESE SPECIES IN FENNOSCANDIA Project duration: 1996 - 1999 Project Directors: Milyutin L.I. (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. Funding: 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. 40. MAPPING SIBERIAN LANDSCAPES: NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS AFFECTING CARBON BALANCE Project duration: 1999 - 2002 Project Directors: Kharuk V.I. (Russia), Ranson K.J. (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; NASA Maryland, USA Funding: 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. 41. LEAF AREA INDEX IN FIRE CHRONOSEQUENSES OF SIBERIAN BOREAL FORESTS Project duration: 1999 - 2002 Project Directors: Kharuk V.I. (Russia), Deering D. (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; NASA Maryland, USA Funding: 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. 42. MODELING AND MONITORING EFFECTSOF AREA BURN AND FIRE SEVERITYON CARBON CYCLING. EMISSIONS, AND FOREST HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY IN CENTRAL SIBERIA Project duration: 1999 - 2004 Project Directors: Ivanova G.A. (Russia), Conard S.G. (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion (Russia); US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (USA) Funding: USDA Forest Service 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. 43. CENTRAL SIBERIAN SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT Project duration: 1999 - 2004 Project Directors: Onuchin A.A. (Russia), Eubanks Steven (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; the North- Eastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, (USA) Funding: the North- Eastern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, (USA) A contemporary strategy for sustainable and ecologically grounded forest management in boreal forests of Siberia is being elaborated. 44. TREE RING MEASUREMENTS AND NDVI AS INDICATORS OF FOREST GROWTH IN SIBERIA INFLUENCED BY VARYING CLIMATE Project duration: 2000 - 2001 Project Directors: Vaganov E.A. (Russia), Hughes M.K. (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; University of Arizona, Tucson (USA) Funding: CRDF - the 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. 45. CLIMATE IN RELATION TO CARBON ACCUMULATION: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ANALYSES OF WEST SIBERIAN PEAT ECOSYSTEMS (CIRCA) Project duration: 2000 - 2003 Project Directors: Bleuten Vladimir (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 (Russia); Utrecht University, Utrecht, (the Netherlands); Botanical Institute, University of Greifswald, Germany Funding: INTAS Foundation 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. 46. 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 Funding: 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. 47. 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 Funding: 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. 48. 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 Funding: University of Michigan The information on biological peculiarities of trees and bushes of Siberia have been collected in the book. 49. 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 Funding: Hokkaido Research Centre of Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute The aim of the project is carrying out joint studies on productivity and structure of taiga ecosystems, vegetation dynamics and nitrogen cycle. 50. STRUCTURE OF CONIFER TREE- RINGS AS AN INDICATOR of ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN CENTRAL SIBERIA Project duration: 2001 Project Director: A. V. Kirdyanov Funding: 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. 51. 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 Funding: the Mac Arthur Foundation (Personal Grant) The project is aimed at elaboration and publication of practical recommendations for protecting inhabited localities from forest fires. 52. 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 Funding: 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. 53. 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, the Ural Branch of RAS; Botanical Garden, the Ural Branch of RAS; the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research; the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zirich; the University of Bayreuth, the 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. 54. 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, Yakutsk; Pacific Institute of Geography, RAS, Yakutia; Tuvinian Institute for the Exploration of Natural Resources SB RAS; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Muenchen, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Global Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany; the Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany; Alterra Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands; University of Groningen, Netherlands; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France; University of Tusсia, Viterbo, Italy Funding: 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. 55. 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; Deutsches 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 Funding: 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. 56. 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. 57. 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. 58. FOREST ECOSYSTEMS OF MONGOLIA Project duration: 2001-2011 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 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. 59. GROWTH AND SEED REPRODUCTION OF CEMBRA 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; the 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. 60. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURE AND DENSITY OF MICROBIAL POPULATIONS IN SOIL OF PINE FORESTS IN CENTRAL SIBERIA IN WINTER AND SUMMER PERIODS (personal grant) Project duration: 2004 - 2006 Project Directors: S.Y.Evgrafova (Russia); Hanna Santruckova (Czech Republic) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS; INTAS - International Association for the promotion of co-operation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union, Brussels, Belgium The grant is directed to studying the structure and functions of soil microbial population of pine forests of Central Siberia during the whole year. The annual microbial soil respiration will be assessed as well. 61. BIOCHEMICAL RESPONSES TO RAPID CLIMATE CHANGES IN EURASIA Project duration: 2003 - 2008 Project Directors: PhD S.V.Verkhovets (Russia); Dr. E.D.Schulze Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena (Germany) The tasks of the project are studying of gas atmospheric regime at heights up to 300 m and modeling the total carbon balance (including CO2, CO, CH4, H2O, NOx) for the area of boreal forests of the Eurasian north for the purpose to reveal and diagnose changes occurring in biogeocoenoses under observed climate changes. 62. STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF LARCH FORESTS Project duration: 2003 - 2004 Project Directors: V.I.Kharuk (Russia); Dr. John Kenneth Ranson (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); NASA GSFC for Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) The project will deal with Siberian larch in different aspects. 63. AGREEMENT BETWEEN INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION, MARTIN- LUETHER- UNIVERSITY Project duration: 2004 -2007 (extended to 2009) Project Directors: A.S.Prokushkin (Russia); Dr. G.Guggenberger (Germany) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); Institute of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Martin-Luether-University Data will be obtained for empirical models of behavior of ecosystem biogeochemical processes under degrading the permafrost soils at the climate warming in high latitudes of Siberia. 64. MODELING OF SUCCESSION DYNAMICS AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES OF SIBERIAN FORESTS Project duration: 2004 - 2006 Project Directors: N.F.Ovchinnikova (Russia); Dr. S.W.Pacala (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); Princeton Environmental Institute/ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Parameterization of the model of growing Siberian forests and determination of distributing resources, growth and mortality models in dark- coniferous forests ecosystems. 65. INVESTIGATION AND RECONSTRUCTIONOF THE LATE HOLOCENE CLIMATE IN THE NORTH-EASTERN EURASIA Project duration: 2004 - 2008 Project Directors: E.A.Vaganov (Russia); Dr. Malcolm Hughes (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); Mel’nikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS (Russia) University of Arizona (USA) The project aim is to study climate variability in the north-eastern Russia, forest landscape dynamics, ecology and hydrology of forests and frost- affected soils, environmental impacts of forest fires. 66. AGREEMENT ON A SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION ON GREEN HOUSE GAS FLUXES IN SIBERIA Project duration: 2004 - 2007 Project Directors: E.A.Vaganov (Russia); Drs. Sten Nilsson (Austria), S.W.Pacala (USA), E.D.Schulze (Germany) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (Austria), Princeton University, Department for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (PU-EEB) Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC) (Germany) The aim of study is to develop a comprehensive description of landscape components in the footprint area of the tall tower in order to link the GHG concentration measurements with landscape and inventory features. 67. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN V.N.SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST SB RAS AND FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE Project duration: 2005 - 2010 Project Directors: E.A.Vaganov (Russia); Dr. Hannu Raitio Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); Finnish Forest Research Institute (Finland) Study of impact of climatic changes on growth of tree plants. In result of cooperation new data on reconstruction of climate dynamics in the Siberian area will be obtained, the collection of trees will be enriched, new data on studying tree rings will be obtained. 68. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN USDA FOREST SERVICE, NORTHEASTERN RESEARCH STATION AND V.N.SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST SB RAS Project duration: 2005 - 2010 Project Directors: A.A.Onuchin (Russia); Dr.Michael T. Rains Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); Northeastern Research Station of USDA Forest Service (USA) To give recommendations for further reforestation and improvement of status of tree stands using GIS technologies and forestry instructions. 69. WILDFIRE IMPACTS ON CARBON STOCKS AND EXCHANGES IN FORESTS OF CENTRAL SIBERIA: QUANTIFYING EFFECTS ON FIRE INTENSITY, FIRE SEVERITY AND BURNING CONDITIONS Project duration: 2005 - 2008 Project Directors: G.A.Ivanova & A.I.Sukhinin (Russia); Dr. Wei Min Hao (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); Rocky Mountain Research Station of USDA Forest Service (USA) The project foresees modeling of forest fires of different intensity and studies the impact of forest fires on carbon cycle, emissions and stability of forest ecosystems. 70. ACADEMIC EXCHANGE AGREEMENT BETWEEN V.N.SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST SB RAS AND FIELD SCIENCE CENTER FOR NORTHERN BIOSPHERE Project duration: 2005 - 2005 (1 year) Project Directors: A.P.Abaimov(Russia); Dr. Norio Suzuki (Japan) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere (Japan) Cooperation on studying boreal forests, biogeochemical cycles, modeling and other aspects of studying related to global changes of environment. 71. MEMORANDUM OF RECORD FOR SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE FAR EAST STATE AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY, V.N.SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST SB RAS AND HOKKAIDO FOREST UNIVERSITY Project duration: 2005 - 2007 Project Directors: A.P.Abaimov, I.V.Bumbar (Russia); Dr. Kaichiro Sasa (Japan) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); Hokkaido University (Japan) Assessment of global warming on forest functions at the southern line of permafrost spreading. 72. EFFECTS OF SIBERIAN TREE SPECIES ON GREENHOUSE GASES FLUXES - A NEW CHALLENGE FOR SUSTAINABILITY (Reintegration grant) Project duration: 2007 - 2010 Project Directors: O.N.Menyailo (Russia); Dr. F.Pedrazzini (Belgium) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); NATO Public Diplomacy Division (Belgium, Brussels) The aim of the grant is to clarify the Siberian tree species effect on nitrous oxide (N2O) emission and consumption and to determine the potential rates of related microbiological processes in soils of artificial afforested experiment. 73. COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENT X07-7002-SI Project duration: 2007 - 2008 Project Directors: N.M.Tchebakova (Russia); Dr. A.Soja (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); National Institute of Aerospace (USA) The project supposes studying and modeling of interacting between the atmosphere, fires and terrestrial ecosystems in Eurasia under climate warming during the 21st century. 74. TRANSFORMATION OF LARCH-DOMINATED FORESTS AND WOODLANDS INTO MIXED TAIGA Project duration: 2006 - 2008 Project Directors: V.I.Kharuk (Russia); Drs. K.Ranson, G.Sun (USA) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); National Institute of Aerospace (USA) The interdisciplinary project foresees modeling of forest successions, analysis of remote sensing data and field studying the current status as well as prognosis for change of larch forests of Siberia. It is planned to ascertain how widely the observed intrusion of ever green trees into larch forest zone occurs. 75. EARTH OBSERVATIONFOR ASSESSMENT OF FOREST DISTURBANCES INDUCED CARBON EMISSIONS IN CENTRAL SIBERIA Project duration: 2007 - 2009 Project Directors: S.Bartalev, D.Ershov, M.Korets (Russia); Drs. K.Kuebel, C.Schmullius, T.Haeusler (Germany); H.Balzter (UK) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); F. Schiller University, Forestry Department (Germany); Leisester University (UK) The project SibFORD will develop methods and instruments for assessing carbon emission caused by disturbances in the forest cover using remote sensing methods combined with data of field studying. The role of anthropogenic factors on carbon balance in taiga ecosystems will be assessed based on analysis of data bank of integrated ground model and remotely sensed observations as well. 76. COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN V.N.SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST AND INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY Project duration: 2008 - 2009 Project Directors: O.B.Shibistova (Russia); Dr. Michal Marek (Czech Republic) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia); Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology The project supposes to use ecological parameters applied in West Europe and Russia for the purpose of studying fundamental processes of interaction between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems under typical climate of Eurasia 77. AGREEMENT BETWEEN COLLEGE OF BIORESOURCE SCIENCE, NIHON UNIVERSITY AND V.N.SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST SB RAS Project duration: 2008 - 2011 Project Directors: A.S. Prokushkin (Russia); Dr. Takeo Sakai (Japan) Organizations: V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (Russia) College of Bioresource Science, Nihon University This project will give an assessment how degradation of permafrost will impact on biogeochemical cycles in northern taiga of Siberia and in transitional zone taiga- tundra for the purpose to reveal their present status and to assess the impact of global climate change on ecosystems of the region