Laboratory manager:

LJAMTSEV Nikolay Ivanovich

Contact tel: +7 495 993 41 76

Key research areas:

• Studies of commercially hazardous insects, forest disease agents and their natural antagonists (entomophages) ecology, harmful organism mass outbreak emergence and distribution regularities and their impact on forest biocoenosises
• Improvement of stand condition, harmful insect population and its condition assessments
• Development of forecast techniques for mass outbreak distribution, stand expected damage and protective operations needs
• Development of guidelines for forest pathology surveys and monitoring
• Developments in pheromone use in population monitoring of key needle and leaf-eating and stem pests in Russian forests, selective surveys of forest sanitary and forest pathological condition, forest pathological information analysis, forest pathological risk environmental-economic criteria are aimed at wide applications