DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY, PHYTOPATHOLOGY, AND PHYSIOLOGY|URIFFM

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY, PHYTOPATHOLOGY, AND PHYSIOLOGY

Main areas of research:

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.

Findings:

introduced phenological theory of dynamics of pine-needle eating insects population;
improved inventory and predicting methods for pests, technological ways to protect forests;
calculated limits for pine-eating insects critical density;
evaluated physiological and technical harmful effect of trunk insects, probability for tree colonisation, changes of sanitary condition;
introduced methodological approaches to evaluate a damage caused by pests to pine species;
specified biology of understudied pests, in particular adventive insects and pathogens;
developed recommendations on the forest-species complex protection from root-affecting insects;
developed recommendations on how to inspect pine species whether they are invaded by pests;
introduced methodological recommendations on how to examine secondary insects foci;
developed normative standards for quantitative indicators of pests' damage to pine and oak trees condition in the stands of both Ukrainian flat land and Crimea Mountains;
developed recommendations on how to define qualitative and quantitative impact of pests and pathogens upon condition of the forest species created on vast lands where fires occured;
introduced Methodological instructions on how to supervise, account, and predict distribution of pests and forest diseases in Ukrainian flat land;
developed Recommendations on the complex forest pathology research in stands to detect new invasive pathogens and study their effect upon stands' condition.

Research prospects :

Defining peculiarities in how pest complexes get formed, including adventive insects and pathogens, evaluation of their damage to main forest-forming species
Detecting changes in seasonal development and biological peculiarities of the most common pathogens which occur due to climate change
Assessment of indicators of distribution and development for the most common and the most agressive pathogens depending on forest sites, stands' age, composition, and density
Evaluation of how agricultural activities effect a distribution of pathogens and their entomophages
Improvement of the approaches to mitigate pests and pathogens' harmful effect.

Possible collaborations:

Diagnostics of pathologic phenomena and processes in forest stands and predicting their decline
Assessment of forest management influence upon insect distribution
Improvement of methods for forest pest outbreaks prediction.

CПІВРОБІТНИКИ:

Kateryna Davydenko

Ph.D., доцент, Senior researcher, Head of the Department

Education: Kharkiv State University (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University), Faculty of Biology, 1996

Ph.D. thesis: "Biological grounds in optimisation of viral preparation production used to protect forest from needle-eating insects"

Areas of expertise: forest phytopathology, molecular identification and structure of phytopathogen population, invasion diseases and plant pests, biodiversity conservation in forest ecosystems, forest protection

Projects and grants: participation in 7 national and 9 international European projects; over 10 personal grants for training as a visiting scholar in Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Institute of Botany under National Nature Research Centre of Lithuania as well as in Forest Research Institute in Poland (IBL)

Publications and reviews: 135 publications with 19 of them in journals included into Scopus and Web of Science. Reviews for over 80 papers in national and international journals (which are included into Scopus and Web of Science, namely Forest Pathology, Mycological Progress, European Journal of Entomology, Bulletin of Insectology, etc.)

тел. (057) 707-80-41
e-mail Kateryna.davydenko74@gmail.com

PUBLICATIONS

Valentyna Meshkova

Ph.D in Agricultural Sciences, Main Researcher

Dr.Habil. in Agricultural Sciences, professor, Full Member of the Forestry Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, The Head of the Eastern branch of the Forestry Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Education: M. Gorky Kharkiv State University (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University), Faculty of Biology, 1974

Ph.D. thesis: "Effect of the VIRIN-ENSh viral preparation upon gypsy moth population in the Lower Dnipro region"

Doctorate thesis: "Ecological grounds in predicting mass propagation of the main foliage browsing insects in Ukrainian forest stands"

Author and co-author of 650 publications, including 33 monographs and sections, 11 tutorials. She is scientific supervisor of 15 Doctors of Philosophy.

Areas of expertise: dynamics of forest insect populations, impact of pest damage on trees' health and growth, predicting in forest protection.

Head of Editorial Board of «The Kharkov Entomological Society Gazette», a Deputy Head of Editorial Board «Forestry & Forest Melioration», the member of Editorial Boards of «Ukrainian Entomological Journal», “Proceedings of the Forestry Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, «Folia Forestalia Polonica», «Journal of Advanced Zoology», «Acta Entomology and Zoology», Guest-Editor in MDPI “Forests”/

AUTHOR'S PROFILE:

Google Аcademy

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GgPVGTkAAAAJ&hl=ru&oi=ao

Scopus

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55404934500

Web of Science ResearcherID

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/34710481

ORCID ID

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6483-2736

Sciprofile in MDPI

https://sciprofiles.com/profile/1213580

тел. (057) 707-80-41
e-mail Valentynameshkova@gmail.com

PUBLICATIONS

Olga Zinchenko

Ph.D., Senior researcher

Education: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Faculty of Biology, 2001

Ph.D. thesis: "Impact of trunk pests upon growth and state of pine stands in the Left-Bank Forest-Steppe"

Areas of expertise: forest entomology

тел. (057) 707-80-41
e-mail zinch.ov@gmail.com

PUBLICATIONS

Yuriy Skrylnyk

Ph.D., Senior researcher

Education: V. V. Dokuchaev Kharkiv National Agrarian University, Faculty of Plant Protection, 2005

Ph.D. thesis: "Harmful effect of trunk insects in pine stands of the Left-Bank Forest-Steppe of Ukraine"

Areas of expertise: entomology (insects xylophages in hardwoods and pine stands in Ukraine; entomophauna in arid ecosystems and in highlands of Southwestern and Central Asia)

тел. (057) 707-80-41
e-mail yuriy.skrylnik@gmail.com

PUBLICATIONS

Iryna Sokolova

Ph.D., Senior researcher

Education: G. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, 1997

Ph.D. thesis: "Distribution and harmful effect of trunk insects in open-growing pine crops in coniferous forests of Donetsk Region"

Areas of expertise: forest pests, decorative plant pests

тел. (057) 707-80-41
e-mail sok.ef.ir@gmail.com

PUBLICATIONS

UKRAINIAN ORDER "SIGN OF HONOUR"
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY AND FOREST MELIORATION
NAMED AFTER G. M. VYSOTSKY

The institute is subordinate to the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine
and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

UKRAINIAN ORDER "SIGN OF HONOUR"
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY AND FOREST MELIORATION
NAMED AFTER G. M. VYSOTSKY

The institute is subordinate to the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine
and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

UKRAINIAN ORDER "SIGN OF HONOUR"
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY AND FOREST MELIORATION
NAMED AFTER G. M. VYSOTSKY

The institute is subordinate to the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine
and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

UKRAINIAN ORDER "SIGN OF HONOUR"
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY AND FOREST MELIORATION
NAMED AFTER G. M. VYSOTSKY

The institute is subordinate to the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine
and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY, PHYTOPATHOLOGY, AND PHYSIOLOGY

Main areas of research:

Findings:

Research prospects :

CПІВРОБІТНИКИ:

Kateryna Davydenko

Valentyna Meshkova

Olga Zinchenko

Yuriy Skrylnyk

Iryna Sokolova

UKRAINIAN ORDER "SIGN OF HONOUR" RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY AND FOREST MELIORATION NAMED AFTER G. M. VYSOTSKY

The institute is subordinate to the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

UKRAINIAN ORDER "SIGN OF HONOUR" RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY AND FOREST MELIORATION NAMED AFTER G. M. VYSOTSKY

The institute is subordinate to the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

UKRAINIAN ORDER "SIGN OF HONOUR" RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY AND FOREST MELIORATION NAMED AFTER G. M. VYSOTSKY

The institute is subordinate to the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

UKRAINIAN ORDER "SIGN OF HONOUR" RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY AND FOREST MELIORATION NAMED AFTER G. M. VYSOTSKY

The institute is subordinate to the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY, PHYTOPATHOLOGY, AND PHYSIOLOGY

Main areas of research:

Findings:

Research prospects :

CПІВРОБІТНИКИ:

Kateryna Davydenko

Valentyna Meshkova

Olga Zinchenko

Yuriy Skrylnyk

Iryna Sokolova

UKRAINIAN ORDER "SIGN OF HONOUR"
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY AND FOREST MELIORATION
NAMED AFTER G. M. VYSOTSKY

The institute is subordinate to the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine
and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

UKRAINIAN ORDER "SIGN OF HONOUR"
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY AND FOREST MELIORATION
NAMED AFTER G. M. VYSOTSKY

The institute is subordinate to the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine
and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

UKRAINIAN ORDER "SIGN OF HONOUR"
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY AND FOREST MELIORATION
NAMED AFTER G. M. VYSOTSKY

The institute is subordinate to the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine
and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

UKRAINIAN ORDER "SIGN OF HONOUR"
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY AND FOREST MELIORATION
NAMED AFTER G. M. VYSOTSKY

The institute is subordinate to the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine
and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine