Main areas of research:

• Development of methods and technologies for both forest renewal, creation of forest plantations and forest shelterbelts
• Improvement of landscape and ecological principles for usage of forest reclamation complexes
• Assessment of degree of disturbance in ecology of modern cultivated lands as well as modelling of their resistance.

Findings:

• developed landscape and ecological principles for usage of forest reclamation considering zones and regions;
• grounded a minimum required protective forest area for cultivated lands based on sustainability;
• imploved conceptual framework for modern forest reclamaition and steppe forestry;
• grounded a necessity to use introduced species in order to increase efficiency of forest shelterbelt afforestation;
• developed the technology for planting containerized seedlings of main forest-forming species;
• studied peculiarities of soil genesis on recultivated lands and forest site types forming in stands with different tree and shrub species as well as in different soil mixtures of overburden rocks in Polissia;
• grounded the fact that cleaning cutting in stands on recultivated lands should be done depending on the forms of technogenic relief;
• analysed the methodology on how to evaluate both disturbed and recultivated lands by means of satellite observations and GIS.

Research prospects :

• Improvement of principles for contour meliorative location of forest shelterbelts considering a water-collecting principle;
• Development of measures on how to stabilize water-resource potential of the main rivers' basins in the systems of forest shelterbelts in Ukraine as well as to improve drinking water quality;
• Development of effective forest shelterbelt systems for farmlands which are excluded from practical use;
• Development of the technology to do clean cutting, reconstructive and renewal felling in forest reclamation stands.

Possible collaborations:

• Renewal of biodiversity on degraded and reclaimed lands
• Formation of forest environment and genesis of forest ecosystems in artificial forest plantations on recultivated lands
• Formation and functioning of shelterbelts as bioengineering structures (barriers) to reduce a negative influence of nature stress-factors on the environment (farmlands)
• Formation and functioning of flood-protecting forests and forests preventing other water-related natural hazards
• Investigation of the state and dynamics of forest ecosystems under critical technogenic loading (forest plantations on land disturbed by industry)
• Studying of the adaptive potential of introduced species from other natural and climatic zones to increase biodiversity of plant complexes.