scholarly journals In memoriam – Stepan Stoyko

2020 ◽  
Vol 87-88 ◽  
pp. 122-125
Author(s):  
Tymur Bedernichek
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Clear Cutting ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
Nature Parks ◽  
Scientific Life

On October 22 of this year, professor Stepan Stoyko – a prominent Ukrainian scientist and nature conservationist, died at the age of 100. Until his last days, he had a clear mind, was active in nature conservation, and continued working on academic publications. His last research article was published in September 2020, approximately one month before his death. For decades he was a principal investigator and head of a department in the State Museum of Natural History and the Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians. Stepan Stoyko created many protected areas, including the Carpathian State Reserve (Carpathian Biosphere Reserve), Roztochya Nature Reserve, and Carpathian, Yavorivskyi, Shatsky, Uzhansky, Skole Beskids, and Synevyr national nature parks. After the catastrophic floods in Transcarpathia in 1998, and 2001, he brought attention to clear-cutting, including the Carpathian forests’ illegal cutting. In his late 90s, Stepan Stoyko supported the initiative group Free Svydovets that protected one of the most important biodiversity islands in the Ukrainian Carpathians – Svydovets mountain range. His support was crucial to prevent building the largest Carpathian ski resort and conserve unique mountain old-growth forests, sub-alpine, and alpine grasslands. I knew Stepan Stoyko for over 20 years since I was 15 years old. Here I would like to share my perspective on his contribution to nature conservation and environmental science. To commemorate his scientific life and contributions, the Ukrainian community of botanists and ecologists Dovkolabotanika established Stepan Stoyko Award in the fields of nature conservation and environmental science for undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students.

Transboundary nature conservation cooperation between Ukraine and the countries of the European Union

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-76
Author(s):  
Serhii Bortnyk ◽  
Tetiana Lavruk ◽  
Liubov Tymuliak ◽  
Tetiana Omelchuk
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eastern Carpathians ◽  
Transboundary Protected Areas ◽  
Volunteer Programs ◽  
Nature Parks ◽  
Environmental Work

The experience of international cooperation in the development of transboundary nature conservation territories of Ukraine and the EU countries on the example of the Eastern Carpathians biosphere reserve was analyised in article. The characteristic of the organization and functioning national nature parks of Uzhansky, Bieschadsky and Poloniny is given. The assessment of environmental activities within these objects was conducted and it was suggested to borrow some provisions of international experience for the development in Ukrainian part of the Eastern Carpathians biosphere reserve, as well as for other transboundary nature conservation territories. It is necessary to organize scientific research work, to initiate educational and volunteer programs on natureconservation, to exchange experience of international environmental work. Important in this case will be the opening and equipment of international tourist and nature trails, a dense network of which has long existed in Europe. Problems of scientific substantiation of the expansion of existing protected territories, as well as planning new, the organization of an independent transboundary monitoring of the state of ecosystems are particularly relevant to all transboundary regions of Ukraine. For the Carpathian region the problems of control over illegal felling in the Uzhansky National Park, the observance of the environmental regime of certain massifs of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, the proliferation of the reserve regime of the Svydovets massif for the whole Basin of the Chorna Tysa river are very important. More attention should be paid to the preservation of ethnographic features of the Carpathians, the development of ecological consciousness of local inhabitants and the population of Ukraine as a whole, their responsibility for the preservation of unique national natural conditions and resources. The solution of the above problems to a large extent depends on the geographers who should participate directly in the study and planning of the development of transboundary protected areas. Only through joint efforts of international cooperation Ukraine's naturally reserved fund will become a multifunctional part of the Pan-European ecological network.

A checklist to help students analyze published articles in basic medical sciences.

1995 ◽  
Vol 268 (6) ◽  
pp. S21 ◽  
Author(s):  
P K Rangachari ◽  
S Mierson
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Reading Textbooks ◽  
Scientific Life ◽  
Basic Medical

Because critical analysis of published information is an essential component of scientific life, it is important that students be trained in its practice. Undergraduate students who are more accustomed to reading textbooks and taking lecture notes find it difficult to appreciate primary publications. To help such students, we have developed a checklist that helps them analyze different components of a research article in basic biomedical sciences. Students used the checklist to analyze critically a published article. The students were assigned an article and asked to write a paper (maximum 2 pages of single-spaced type) assessing it. This assignment has been found useful to both undergraduate and graduate students in pharmacology and physiology. Student responses to a questionnaire were highly favorable; students thought the exercise provided them with some of the essential skills for life-long learning.

scholarly journals Literary runaway: Increasingly more references cited per academic research article from 1980 to 2019

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0255849
Author(s):  
Can Dai ◽  
Quan Chen ◽  
Tao Wan ◽  
Fan Liu ◽  
Yanbing Gong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Linear Growth ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
General Increase ◽  
Know How ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Digitized Documents ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Selection Of

References are employed in most academic research papers to give credits and to reflect scholarliness. With the upsurge in academic publications in recent decades, we are curious to know how the number of references cited per research article has changed across different disciplines over that time. The results of our study showed significant linear growth in reference density in eight disciplinary categories between 1980 and 2019 indexed in Web of Science. It appears that reference saturation is not yet in sight. Overall, the general increase in the number of publications and the advanced accessibility of the Internet and digitized documents may have promoted the growth in references in certain fields. However, the seemingly runaway tendency should be well appreciated and objectively assessed. We suggest that authors focus on their research itself rather than on political considerations during the process of writing, especially the selection of important references to cite.

scholarly journals Astrakhan state biosphere reserve, as an object of ecological enlightenment of the population

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduard Arustamov ◽  
Kseniia Kobiak ◽  
Irina Pavlova
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Caspian Sea ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Volga Delta ◽  
Adjacent Territory

Astrakhan biosphere reserve, the Volga Delta, hunting, the birds’ nesting area, adjacent territory of the Delta, Northern Caspian sea, the species. The article is characterized by environmental protection, research and ekologo-educational activity of the Astrakhan biosphere reserve, which is the oldest environmental institution of the Federal value. Specific examples of diversification activities of the reserve, has drawn attention to the possibility of a successful combination of very important and substantive nature conservation with scientific research, environmental education and, even to some extent, educational activities.

scholarly journals Indigenous vascular plants of the Soutpansberg, South Africa

Bothalia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Hahn
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Floristic Diversity ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
The Status ◽  
Herbarium Collections

Background: The first checklist for the Soutpansberg was published in 1946, and the second list was compiled by the author in 2006 as part of his doctoral thesis. Currently, there is a need for an updated account of the biodiversity of the Soutpansberg Centre of Endemism and Diversity for conservation planning in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, within which the Soutpansberg is the principle geomorphological feature.Objectives: To present an updated list of vascular plants recorded for the Soutpansberg.Method: The list was compiled from various sources including literature reviews, herbarium specimens, herbarium databases and personal observations.Results: This article presents the most geographically accurate and taxonomically updated list of the indigenous vascular flora of the Soutpansberg, the northernmost mountain range of South Africa. Altogether 2443 taxa are recorded belonging to 922 genera in 187 families and 64 orders.Conclusion: The list presented in this article confirms the status of the Soutpansberg as a centre of floristic diversity in southern Africa. Notable is the higher-order diversity of the flora. It is likely that both future surveys and reviews of herbarium collections will add new taxa to the current total.

Types and causes of tree mortality in a tropical montane cloud forest of Tamaulipas, Mexico

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 623-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Arriaga
Keyword(s):  
Tree Mortality ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Tropical Montane Cloud Forest ◽  
Crown Cover ◽  
Montane Cloud Forest ◽  
Dead Material ◽  
Shallow Soils

The types and causes of death of canopy and subcanopy trees were characterized for the tropical montane cloud forest of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Field work was carried out at the Biosphere Reserve ‘El Cielo’, located on the eastern slope of the Sierra Madre Oriental. Three study plots, each of 2 ha, were selected within the forest differing in their degree of exposure to wind. Results indicate that the tropical montane cloud forest presents a differential treefall regime derived from the great hurricane activity to which this mountain range is exposed. This effect is illustrated by the great number of fallen logs (545 trees in 6 ha) and the high percentage of uprooted (48.3%) and snapped off (37.6%) trees. Other treefall factors included the rocky and shallow soils and weakness of the dominant trees from insect attack. A differential disturbance level was obtained between zones. The disturbance was higher for the exposed zone, where the crown cover of emergent trees was not closed. Species composition of the dead material was related to the abundance of the overstorey species as standing vegetation. Ten of the 20 recorded species were able to sprout and just 7.5% of the 545 fallen trees were sprouting. Quercus germana, Q. sartorii, Clethra pringlei, Liquidambar styraciflua and Ceris canadensis, accounted for 78.5% of the gap-forming species. The type of treefall differed between species of the same genera: Q. germana was generally found uprooted, while Q. sartorii died standing probably because of previous weakening from dipterous insects.

The Carmel Fire and Its Conservation Repercussions

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
UN Safriel
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
National Park ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Fire Prevention ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Minimal Intervention ◽  
Conservation And Management

The forest fire in Mt. Carmel National Park in Israel in 1989 resembled the 1988 fire in Yellowstone Park in that public concern motivated the authorities to appoint professional committees to assess rehabilitation options and fire policies. The committees re-evaluated the goals and practices of nature conservation and management in protected areas, in a much broader context than just fire prevention. The recognition of the dynamic nature of ecosystems, the low predictability of their behaviour, and the role of fire as a disturbance agent that promotes biodiversity, contributed to recommendations of minimal intervention, allowing self-regeneration. The Israeli committee commissioned an interdisciplinary-research program designed to direct post-fire and fire-reduction management, and provide insights for planning for the region as a biosphere reserve. The results of this three-year program are reported in this issue.

scholarly journals Reconstruction of fire history in Mexican tropical pines using tree rings

2012 ◽  
Vol 88 (05) ◽  
pp. 553-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke A. Cassell ◽  
Ernesto Alvarado
Keyword(s):  
Tree Ring ◽  
Tree Rings ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Fire Scars ◽  
Sierra Madre ◽  
Sierra Madre Del Sur ◽  
Sierra De Manantlán

A dendropyrochronological study was conducted in pine-dominated forest in the Sierra de Manantlán Biosphere Reserve located in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range in Mexico. Tropical pines present several difficulties for tree-ring research including missing, false and diffuse rings. This paper discusses the methods that were used to analyze tree rings in order to reconstruct fire history based on the dating of fire scars sampled from tropical pines.

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