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elaboration of scientific foundation for the North ecosystems'
sustainability under extreme nature conditions and anthropogenic effect
from the mining-metallurgical industrials and determination of
allowable loads on terrestrial and water ecosystems.
creating hydrobiological and water-toxic methodics for assessment the
consequences of North fresh water ecosystems under effect from
mining-metallurgical complex plus finding out the criteria of their
sustainability;
define space-time change of various elements of nature structures
(landscape, climate), subjected to one invariant-- aerotechnogenic load
from mining-metallurgical complex;
assessment and long-term forecast of probable changes in ecological and
nature-economy systems under different scenario of nature resources
use;
elaboration of scientific-methodological foundation and principles of
ecological expertise for natural mineral raw material protection and
technologies when making a project and then developing nature resources
and their complex treatment.
to originate high technologies for the waste purification, including
air emissions and wastes from treating factories, pits quarries and
smelters.
provide with information on the environment state and forecast of its
elements by mathematical modelling;
creating ecological informational systems , including computerised nets
for controlling, data base, geographical information systems and
mathematical models for the forecast a and management of the
Environment state.
The Institute staff is 88, including 36 research workers of whom 5 are professors
and 16 hold doctors of sciences degrees.
The results of some investigations in 1995:
Ecological problems of biological systems
On the foundation of original approaches to use a net of certain sites one managed to give a
detail multidisciplined analysis of biogeochemical cycles for mineral elements
Ca,Mg, K, Mn, Al, Fe, Zn, Ni, Cu, S, P, N,) in North forests under conditions of
air emission pollution. After having determined the dependence of organic matter
dynamics and biogeochemical cycles of mineral elements from the state type of the
forest biosenosis, classified as a stage of its technogenic transformation we
managed to define basic types of technogenic transformation in the North forest
biogeosenosis; background, defoliated, technogenic thin forest and technogenic
barren.
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