EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

– every 5 years), microbial activity of soils, CO2 production in the spring, summer and
autumn (3 times a year).
Biota: Health status of main primeval forest constituents is monitored acc. methods adopted
by International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution
Effects on Forests (once a year), biodiversity monitoring with the emphasis on species known
as indicators of primeval forests intactness or bioindicators (twice a year), monitoring of
organisms bound to primeval forests (every two years), primeval forest structure and texture
monitoring (every 5 years), soil biota monitoring (5 year intervals).
Both countries have had a long tradition of monitoring of the tree component of the strict
preserves. Sampling methods include:
− permanent experimental plots, measurement of the living trees DBH > 8 cm,
species composition, height, sociological (age) class, stem and crown quality,
damage, necromass (3 degradation phases)
− transects: living trees DBH > 1 cm, species composition, height, position, crown
parameters, natural regeneration (using 4 height classes).
Monitoring frequency ranges from 5 to 10 years. Additional research includes: soils,
biogeochemistry, phytocoenology, zoology (birds, bats), fungi etc. with an increasing
emphasis on inter-disciplinary and comparative research in reserves and managed areas
Currently, the arrangement of monitoring plots establishes an irregular net. In the future,
each site shall also have its own subsystem that will consist of plots on two levels:
− a higher level drawing on a few monitoring plots with a wide array of frequently or
continuously measured parameters (one or two monitoring plots for every
primeval forests in the nominated series assumed)
− a lower level containing a design of additional monitoring plots aimed at lowfrequency
measurements (0-4 monitoring plots for every primeval forest in the nominated
series assumed). The goal of the second level is to identify possible changes of a primeval
forest as a whole.
6.b Administrative arrangements for monitoring property:
Constant monitoring, most part of inventory-making and scientific research are held by
the scientists of Scientific Departments of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and the
Uzhanskyi National Nature Park. Besides that, on the basis of contracts National Universities
of L’viv, Uzhgorod and Ivano-Frankivsk, Different Institutes belonging to the Ukrainian
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