Contents

[1] [2] [3] [3.1] [3.2] [3.3] [3.4] [3.5] [4]

1. DESCRIPTION OF BIODIVERSITY IN THE DATABASES

  1. Development of the digital atlas “Biodiversity of siberian fauna and flora”
  2. Development of the npcv database: natural populations and chromosomal variability in chironomidae ( diptera, chironomidae )
  3. Chromosomes of mammals of russia and adjacent territories. The atlas and WWW of a database
  4. Biological monitoring of mouse-like rodents in the regions susceptible to anthropogenic pollution: evaluation of environmental conditions (1993) and trends of their alterations (2000)
  5. Development of a Computer Database on Valuable Fodder and Medicinal Wild Crops of Western Siberia and Altai. Developing and Updating the Collections
  6. Estimation of the Biodiversity of Cryptogam Plants (Algae, Fungi, Lichens) of southern Western Siberia
  7. Complex estimation of the phytocoenotic diversity and spatial-structural organization of the vegetation cover of the south of western siberia
  8. Chemical elementary composition as a form of boidiversity of vegetative communities of the world
  9. Phenotypic and genetic collections are new sources of biodiversity of cultivated wheat species: their establishment, reproduction, preservation and description in the gcd database
  10. Gene pool maintenance and practical using of special-purpose luminous bacteria collection ibso
  11. Dynamics of Phytopigments in the Ocean. “BIOALARM” – Estimation of stable space-time state of chlorophyll distribution in the surface layer of the ocean and perennial trends by satellite and ships data ( methods and software )
  12. Phylogenetic diversity of Extremophils in Baikal Region: ecological and BIotechnological aspects
  13. Microflora of areas with occurrence and processing of sulfide ores and phosphorites in cold and temperate climate zones ( Krasnoyarsk territory )
  14. Radioactive contamination of the yenisei river: state and prognosis
  15. Waste problem on the territory of the lake Baikal basin
  16. Ecological mechanisms of matter turnover in Siberian salt lake ecosystems with few species ( by the example of lake Shira )
  17. Creation of a system of space monitoring of the environment of Siberia SMSES; means of data processing and a base for network-enabled fast data access
  18. Remote sensing system and GIS technologies for monitoring and preventing natural disasters in the eastern Siberia
  19. Complex monitoring of vast vasyugan marsh: investigations of current status and evolution under the effect of natural and anthropogenic factors

2. BIODIVERSITY: PUBLICATION PROJECTS

  1. Karyotypes and morphology of larvae in tribe chironomini ( Diptera, Chironomidae )
  2. Biological diversity of the orthopteran insects in North Asia ( An atlas-monograph )
  3. Catalogues and study guides to the insects and arachnids of Siberia
  4. Mapping and publication of four maps of amphibian, bird and small mammal communities of the Western Siberian Plains (1:4000000) and that of the vertebrate assemblage of the Novosibirsk Region (1:3000000)
  5. An integrated evaluation of level and structure of the biodiversity of arthropod communities in Western Siberia
  6. Monitoring of Plants and Plant Populations Affected by Anthropogenic Pollution
  7. Degradation of forest soils and soil cover in plain and mountainous areas of middle Siberia
  8. Temperature variations for the last 2000 years by tree-ring chronologies from Polar and Upper Mountain tree line in Siberia
  9. The state of terrestrial ecosystems of the Baikal region
  10. Publication of a book for popularizing science and enlightening Siberians, as well as Europeans having got interests in Siberia

3. INVESTIGATION PROJECTS

3.1 BIODIVERSITY: ANIMAL AND PLANT POPULATIONS OF SIBERIA

  1. Woody Plants of the Asian Part of Russia in the Wild and under Cultivation: Study of Biodiversity, Introduction and Preservation of the Gene Pool
  2. Biodiversity of vegetation, storages and structure of vegetative matter of the swamps of the northern taiga of Western Siberia
  3. Phytocoenotic diversity in the Baikal region
  4. Diversity of flora and vegetation of forest-steppe ecosystems of Transbaikalia
  5. Distribution and interrelation of community of hydrobionts in the water-basin having areas of naturally different trophity ( on the example of the Chivirkui Bay of Lake Baikal )
  6. Development of the unified approaches and strategy of conservation of biodiversity of the mountainous territories of Eurasia ( on the example of the Alps and the Altai )
  7. Biodiversity and pyrogenic successions of forest ecosystems in Siberian cryolithic zone
  8. Biological diversity of the īb river basin and īb-irtysh interfluvial area aquatic ecosystems

3.2 CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

  1. Preservation of biodiversity of siberian fauna
  2. Faunistics and populational genetics of Drosophilidae
  3. Development, maintenance and use of cytogenetic collection of wheat and its derivative forms as a part of biological diversity of cereals

3.3 THE PERMAFROST ECOSYSTEMS OF SIBERIA AND GLOBAL CHANGES OF CLIMATE

  1. The role of permafrost ecosystems of Yakutia in global climate change
  2. Climate, soil, frost of Northern Asia
  3. Forest-tundra ecotone response to climate change

3.4 BIODIVERSITY UNDER PRESSURE OF ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS

  1. Complex estimation of technogenic impact on the genofond of scanty Northern population
  2. Effect of climatic changes and anthropogenetic disturbance of Forests on the main processes of the hydrological cycle in taiga landscapes of Middle Siberia
  3. Evaluation of the city ambience (Ulan-Ude) pollution on water-assembly territory of lake Baikal
  4. Working out quantitative prognosis and the risk assessment of spreading of recombinant microorganisms in natural ecosystems ( field, experimental and theoretical research )
  5. Experimental and theoretical research of connection of catalase activity of microorganisms of active sludge aerotanks with concentration of pollutants waste water
  6. Biodiversity of Miscanthus Introduction of Miscanthus for solving some ecological problems in Western Siberia
  7. Complex analysis of environmental quality and population health risk in the regions with prerequisites for stress ecological situations
  8. Industrial risks and Atmospheric air quality in industrial centres
  9. Prediction of river water quality exposed to industrial impact ( the case study: Barnaul city, the OB River )

3.5 SIBERIAN SOILS UNDER PRESSURE OF ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS

  1. Biological self-purification of soils of Siberia from technogenic and agrogenic pollution
  2. Carbon and calcium losses on geochemical and anthropogenic soil erosion
  3. Study of the State and Distribution of Soil Degradation of Cryoxerogenic Landscapes in Central Yakutia
  4. CO2 emission and destruction of organic matter in industrially polluted arable soils of the Pribaikalie forest-steppe
  5. Elementary chemical composition of peat as the reflection of genesis and evolution of swamps, pollution of environment

4. ECOLOGY OF LAKE BAIKAL

  1. Development of the novel approach for assessing an ecosystem sustainability basing on both species and genetic diversities
  2. The creation of reference material of composition of deep Lake Baikal water for the ecological monitoring of lakes’ ecosystems
  3. Oligonucleotide arrays as a novel tool for the analysis of phylogenetic relationships between endemic organisms of Lake Baikal
  4. Evaluation of the diversity of microflora species in the pelagial of Lake Baikal
  5. Sayan Sun Observatory (at Mondy village) as a base station for studying admixture transport in the lower layers of the atmosphere in Central Asia
  6. Modern estimate of the unique biodiversity of Baikal: the basis for ecological research and monitoring of its ecosystem. Peculiarities of formation and biogeographical relationships