Speaking in the opening ceremony, KarRC RAS Acting Director General Olga Bakhmet remarked that the academic writings of Nikolai Kazimirov are desk companions for Karelian scientists.
— Nikolai Ivanovich is rightfully considered a classic of forest science! For decades he worked in the Karelian Research Center RAS and his monographs are exemplary for setting up experiments and analyzing the results, — noted Olga Bakhmet.
— Under the scientist's leadership, integrated studies of forest productivity were carried out, mathematical models of forest growth in different ecological conditions were compiled. The results of these studies have not lost their relevance to this day, — stressed Director of the Forest Research Institute KarRC RAS Alexander Kryshen in his opening speech.
Olga Bakhmet, KarRC RAS Acting Director General, and Alexander Kryshen, Director of the Forest Research Institute KarRC RAS
Sergey Moshnikov, Leading Researcher at the Laboratory of Boreal Forest Dynamics and Productivity of the Forest Research Institute KarRC RAS, elaborated on the main aspects of Nikolai Kazimirov's work. The scientist especially highlighted the compilation of forest valuation tables. They were created using a huge amount of data: the tables are based on materials from more than 400 sample plots and over 5 thousand model trees.
The core program of the conference is devoted to the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of forests, selective breeding of woody plants, methods of assessing the productivity of forest ecosystems, development of forest biotechnologies and the climate-regulating role of forests. A special session on Tuesday will be devoted to forest climate projects with discussion of the results of activities of the RITM Carbon consortium.
One of the speakers at the opening ceremony was Natalya Lukina, Director of the Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairperson of the RAS Scientific Council on Forest, Leader of the RITM Carbon consortium. She emphasized the importance of integrated research into boreal ecosystems and told about the role of biogenic mechanisms in organic carbon accumulation in forest soils.
Director of the Forest Research Institute KarRC RAS Alexander Kryshen told about the main fields of activity for the institute’s specialists and presented major results of boreal forest research.
In addition to the presentations and sessions, the conference will include a trip to a site for testing carbon pools and fluxes in pine forests in the Kivach Nature Reserve. Scientists will also visit the Petrozavodsk forest seed orchard.
