Overview of Research Activities of ARICFR, Team CR7 20042005

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Overview of Research Activities of ARICFR, Team
CR72004-2005

• M. Palenova team leader
• V. Korotkov
• S. Ripa
• E. Zubkova,
• All-Russian Research Institute of Silviculture
  and Mechanization of Forestry

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Research Activities

• Review and comparison of silvicultural systems
• Provides the base-line data for the case studies
• Application of existing models to concepts of
  sustainability
• Application of silvicultural models in two case
  studies
• Analysis and identification of optimal natural
  resource management strategies

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Review and comparison of silvicultural systems

• Korotkov V.N. published paper Forest management
  planning and forest inventory in the Russian
  Federation in the period of transition for the
  International workshop "Forest Management
  Planning Status and Changes after Political and
  Economical Transformation in Central Europe",
  Bialowieza, Poland, 10 - 12 March 2004
• Palenova M.M. prepared review of Russian
  silvicultural systems
• How we will compare different silvicultural
  systems and finalise review?

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Provides the base-line data for the case studies

• Database of forest inventory data for Chuchloma
  FMU (Kostroma region), Russkii Les FMU (Moscow
  region) and other databases were available for
  all participants of the project
• We prepared databases for EFISCEN growth tables,
  ages of maturity (cuttings), rules of forest
  management, volume of intermediate and final
  cuttings, AAC, etc.

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

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

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Indexes for integral evaluation of forest
biodiversity

• Number of tree species on subcompartment (vydel)
• Layer structure (1-layer stand, 2-layer stand and
  3-layer stand)
• The share of dominant tree species volume in a
  tree layer
• Relative age of dominant tree species (ratio age
  of tree and age of maturity)
• Presence of zonal edificator tree species in tree
  layer and undergrowth layer

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Using CommonGIS for integral evaluation of forest
biodiversity
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Integral evaluation of forest biodiversity
Protection scenario Legal practice
scenario Illegal practice scenario
Evaluation of biodiversity Dark good Light
bad
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Prognosis of area of tree stand without and with
shrub and herb layers (20 steps 100 years)
We must take into account in the forest models
not only tree stand but and shrub layer and herb
cover
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Presentations at Conferences

• International conference transformation to
  continuous cover forestry in a changing
  environment and EFI 11th annual conference, 4 - 6
  September 2004, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom
  (Palenova M.M.)
• International Conference Modeling Forest
  Production Scientific Tools (Data Needs and
  Sources Validation and Application), 1922
  April 2004, University of Natural Resources,
  Vienna, Austria (Palenova M.M.)
• 6th meeting of the UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists
  to monitor and develop assistance to countries of
  Central and Eastern Europe in transition in the
  forest and forest products sector, Warsaw,
  Poland, 3-6 March 2004 (Korotkov V.N.)
• International workshop "Forest Management
  Planning Status and Changes after Political and
  Economical Transformation in Central Europe",
  Bialowieza, Poland, 10 - 12 March 2004 (Korotkov
  V.N.)
• 6th meeting of the Technical consultation
  committee of Montréal Process on Criteria and
  Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable
  Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests, 7-11
  June 2004, Puerto Iguazú, Argentina (Korotkov
  V.N.)
• Forest Landscape Restoration in Central and
  Northern Europe, 6-8 October 2004, Hämeenlinna,
  Finland (Korotkov V.N.)
• 16th Meeting of Working Group on Criteria and
  Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable
  Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests
  (Montréal Process), Jasper, Alberta, Canada,
  October 18-21, 2004 (Korotkov V.N.)

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Publications

• 8 parts in the book East European forest
  history in Holocene and modernity. Ed. by O.V.
  Smirnova. 2 book. Moscow Nauka, 2004. (in
  Russian).
• Korotkov, V.N. National report of the Russian
  Federation // International workshop Forest
  management planning status and changes after
  political and economic transformation in Central
  Europe. Workshop proceedings. Bialowieza,
  Poland, 10-12 March 2004. Warsaw, 2004. P.
  6382.
• Korotkov, V.N. Necessity of international
  cooperation to combat illegal logging in the
  Russian Federation // Proceeding. Regional
  Workshop on strengthening the Asia Forest
  Partnership. Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 30 August 1
  September 2004. P. 335338.
• Chumachenko S.I., Korotkov V.N., Palenova M.M.,
  Zobkov V.V., Politov D.V. Model FORRUS-S
  simulation of dynamics of forest ecosystems. / //
  Proceedings of International Conference Modeling
  Forest Production Scientific Tools (Data Needs
  and Sources Validation and Application). 1922,
  April 2004. University of Natural Resources,
  Vienna, Austria. 2004. P. 44.
• Korotkov, V.N. Restoration of polydominant
  spruce-broadleaved forests after long-term
  economic use in the island forest tracts of
  Moscow region, Russia // Workshop Forest
  Landscape Restoration in Central and Northern
  Europe. 68 October 2004. Hämeenlinna, Finland
  (in press)
• Palenova M.M., Korotkov V.N, Ripa S.I.,
  Chumachenko S.I. and Politov D.V. Exploratory
  interactive analysis of spatio-temporal
  forecasting data for evaluation forest
  biodiversity. In Proceedings of International
  conference transformation to continuous cover
  forestry in a changing environment and EFI 11th
  annual conference, 4 - 6 September 2004, Bangor,
  Wales, United Kingdom. (In press)

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