Scientific departments

  • Forest potential and peculiarities of natural reproduction of forests in different natural zones of Ukraine
  • Increase of productivity of forest phytocoenose by means of forestry measures
  • Development of forest management systems based on forest site types as well as on novel ecology-oriented ways and technologies of complex felling
  • Improvement of reconstructive felling technologies for coppice of little value and secondary forests
  • Theory and practice of mature forest felling
  • Optimisation of clean cutting regimes applied to…

  • Forest site type assessment of degraded and lowproductive lands in terms of whether they can be used in forest planting
  • Studying of biological circulation of substance and its getting more intensified in forest ecosystems
  • Impovement of the system of soil and ecological indicators for forest management, mensuration, and soil monitoring under conditions of Ukrainian Left-Bank Forest-Steppe
  • Assessment of technogenic impact upon changes of forest site type properties of soil.

 

 

  • Reforestation for Climate Change Mitigation
  • Afforestation and Combating Desertification
  • Agroforestry and Ecosystem Services
  • Forest Reclamation and Combating Land Degradation

 

  • Obtaining productive and strong individuums and populations by their selection and hybridization
  • Conservation and renewal of valuable gene resources of forest tree species
  • Variability and inheritance of commercially valuable features in forest species
  • Developing and improving methods to clone selected material.

  • Study of fire regimes of the main types of landscapes;
  • Identifying features of fire damage to pine stands and developing of post-fire  mortality models;
  • Determination of forest’s fire resistance criteria, taking into account the fuel load, weather conditions and anthropogenic loads;
  • Fire risks assessment, development of science-based measures to increase forest fire resistance and reduce natural fire hazard in forested landscapes;
  • Dendroindication of forest ecosystems by dendrochronological methods under the influence of …

  • Development of the principles for modern forestry policy
  • Analysis of financial and economical activities of forestry enterprises under current conditions
  • Sci-tech predicting for forestry development
  • Intensification of forest utilization
  • Increase of forest management efficiency
  • Organising production and labor in forestry.

  • Reasons, dynamics, and conditions for pathogenic processes occurring in forest stands
  • Nature of tree differentiation by their state when exposed to endemic pathogenic processes
  • Pathogenic processes occurrence and preventing their development.

  • Forest entomology (phenology, dynamics of harmful insects populations, inventory methods, prediction)
  • Forest  phytopathology
  • Impact of insects and pathogenes upon state of trees
  • Technology of forest protection
  • Consequences of global climate change in terms of forest insects distribution and their harmful effect.

  • IT development in foresty production and forest management;
  • creation of IT systems, software solutions and automated workplaces for specialists of different levels;
  • creation of the geographic information system of forest management based on advanced programme platforms of highly efficient geographic information databases, as commercial, so free ones. 
  • hardware support to define coordinates using global positioning systems (GPS, GLONASS) as well as providing measuring devices for harvest sites defining.
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  • Inventory and monitoring of state, yield, and biodiversity of forests;
  • Forests and climate change;
  • Predicting dynamics of forests' state under anthropogenic change of environment, scenario analysis of forest management as well as grounding the strategies of forest management;
  • Usage of cutting-edge informational and measuring technologies to define forest mensuration ecological indicators of forest ecosystems and forest planning;
  • Defining optimum conditions to preserve forest biodiversity as well as working ou…

  • informational support to research works;
  • maintenance of the Institute website;
  • creating a specialised library archive;
  • organisation of editing and publishing activities;
  • informational support to copyright of research works contributers;
  • organisation and informational support of conferences, exhibitions, creating presentations;
  • providing scientific and informational cooperation with the institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine and othe…