Results of Potential BINU Project Informaton Users' Questions Regarding Biodiversity Indicators: Natioal Level Key Questions to Be Answered by Bioindicators

All questions, proposed by potential BINU Project users  (by the results of the workshop, Kyiv, Jaunary 27-29, 2003) and New Questions

Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine

State Statistical Committee

The Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences

Republican Nature Management Committee of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

State Land Management Committee of Ukraine

Environmental Research and Resources Institute of Ukraine (ERRIU)

State Protected Areas Service under MENRU

Askania Nova Biosphere Reserve

National Scientific Research Center for Defense Technologies and Military Security of Ukraine

Kerch Subdivision of the Republican Association "Ecology and the World"

Ukrainian Bird Protection Association, an official representative of BirdLifeInternational in Ukraine

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What farmlands could be converted for nature conservation aims?

What indicators existing in the state reporting system can serve as agrobioindicators, specifically, in the hunting management (e.g. funding, poaching, etc.)

What is the agrobiodiversity state on the agrolandscapes of the reserve areas?

How does land use impact the state of the hunt game population? How can in impact forest quality?

How does agrolandscape impact biodiversity? How does the state of lands and land use impact agrobiodiversity?

Does the Project provide for identification of factors of formation and causes of change of biodiversity state? (12). What is the current state of agrobiodiversity? What are the main factors causing its loss?

How does a form of agricultural management predominating in a certain region impact: general changes in the number of species; reduction of the number of species under threat of extinction; biocenosis structure change and changes in the list of dominating species; genetic diversity of background species populations. (50)

Is there any positive effect from natural resource conservation management in the agricultural production systems? (13)

What actions can cause biodiversity exhaustion? (17)

Sustainable agroecosystem management scenario (29+30). How can biodiversity loss be stopped by 2010?

How does land reclamation impact biodiversity (22+41+47+48)?

What is the impact of the green tourism? (19)

What are the dynamics of farmland structure changes due to the change of land owners? (28)

Does the management form impacts biodiversity?

Can agrobioindicators be applied to the assessment of human pressures, e.g. military activities?

What are the criteria of environmental state assessment using bioindicators? (36)

What agrosystem elements can be diagnosed?

What species should the bioindication be applied to? [background species, Red Data Book species]?

What criteria can be used for rating agrobioindicators while assessing environmental risks? (55)

Zonal and landscape approaches to the development of biodiversity assessment criteria

How much are national bioindicators related to the international ones?

What is bioindicators role in ecosystem conservation? (18+43)

What is the impact of management scenarios based on the combination of agricultural production and natural resource conservation strategies? (29)

Is there a biodiversity management model? (60)

What criteria can be used for rating agrobioindicators while assessing environmental risks?  (55)

How can   local and regional decision makers be involved into the bioindicators development? (60)

Sustainable development support? (37+57+15)

How can Ukraine-specific bioindicators be used on the global level? (56)

Black - new questions Purple – aim of indication Green – management and use Blue –  indicators Yellow - others Note: In parentheses, the numbers of questions from the general list are stated. Several questions from this list were united into one question.

*Taking into account  CBD recommends using three main priorities - questions, search of appropriate indicators, development of a monitoring system