Concept for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Forest Genetic Resources in Ukraine

Abstract

Elaboration and adoption of the "Concept for the conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Ukraine" were caused by the need to define the strategic goals and objectives, methodological, methodical, organizational principles and techniques for conservation of forest genetic resources in Ukraine on a nationwide scale. The development of the Concept aims at providing stable functioning of forest ecosystems today and in the future, preserving the potential of forests for producing of their unique set of economic, environmental and social benefits. The use of the document will serve as the basis for developing of new and improving the existing legislative, departmental and administrative regulations that provide different aspects of biodiversity conservation in forests -programs, regulations, guidelines, directives, recommendations, etc. In the Concept, which is developed in Ukraine for the first time, characterized are the topicality and the necessity for conservation of forest genetic resources, the classification of factors that endanger the genetic diversity of forest tree species is described, legal basis of the process for conserving forest genetic resources is analyzed, the methods and strategy of genetic variability of forest tree species conservation are reported, attention was paid to the benefits from sustainable use of forest genetic resources, also here were indicated the necessity of scientific support of this process and outlined ways of implementing this concept.

Morphological and ecological peculiarities of checker tree mountain ash (Torminalis glaberrima) plants and biochemical composition of its fruits

“…Cultivation of rare and endangered species and their subsequent repatriation to natural habitats is one of the main measures for conservation of biodiversity and the gene pool of plants of the world flora (Krynytskyi et al, 2017;Werres, 2018). This position is enshrined in many international documents, primarily in the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and the European Strategy for Plant Conservation 2011-2020 (Hoebee et al, 2006).…”

“…Checker tree free felling was suspended at the state level in the second half of the 1920's only through the awakening of ecological consciousness, and in due course, this species was listed in 'The Red Book' (Didukh, 2009) and state programs for its protection have been launched (Shpak et al, 2017). The addition of wild service tree to 'The Red Book' is only the initial stage of the program for its conservation as a rare and endangered species on the territory of Ukraine, aimed at increase in its population (Krynytskyi et al, 2017;Shpak, 2018;Grynyk et al, 2019;Lefèvre et al, 2020). It should be noted that the checker tree is an aboriginal species and the extreme north-eastern limit of its distribution is: Zаkаrpаttia, Peredkarpattia, Bukovynа, Pоdіllia, some localities are in the mountainous Crimea (Kоsеts, 1941;Termena & Budzhak, 1997;Mosyakin, 1999;Budzhak et al, 2000;Didukh, 2009).…”

“…The main attention was devoted to ensuring sustainable and permanent biodiversity. The diversity of wildlife is an indicator of the stability of ecosystems Bednorz & Nowinska, 2018) and provides a functional relationship between communities, supports the passage of biogeochemical processes in the biosphere at the appropriate level (Paul et al, 2000;Krynytskyi et al, 2017). Today the processes of the species disappearance and ecosystem degradation have acquired a mass character (Dines et al, 2005;Lefèvre et al, 2020), therefore biodiversity conservation is one of the key tasks of modernity (Coetzee, 2017).…”

“…Change in the natural conditions and anthropogenic activity have caused a decrease in range, and alterations in the functional organization of many plant species (de Rigo et al, 2016;Bednorz & Nowinska, 2018). Most threatened plants are rare, endemic or ed-ge of range (Krynytskyi et al, 2017). They are represented mostly by isolated populations, which differ in genetic and ecological structure, tied to certain habitat types that are separated from each other by geographic or biological barriers (de Rigo, et al, 2016;Hallmann et al, 2017).…”

Дендрофлора Балки Широка (Острів Хортиця)

“…Актуальність подібного роду досліджень очевидна з огляду на розроблення "Концепції збереження та сталого використання лісових генетичних ресурсів", що було представлено вперше в Україні з метою забезпечення сталого функціонування лісових екосистем, збереження потенціалу лісів для майбутніх поколінь та вдосконалення наявних законодавчих документів щодо підтримання біорізноманіття в лісах (Krynytskyi et al, 2017).…”