Forest. Human. Chernobyl. Contents

THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF BELARUS
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Forest. Human. Chernobyl. Contents

1. ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE LARGE-SCALE RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION OF BELARUSSIAN FORESTS

1.1. Social and economic aspects of radioactive contamination of forest ecosystems. pp. 7--11.
1.2. The characterization of the forest fund of radioactively-contaminated areas of Belarus. pp. 11--19.
1.3. Economic damage inflicted by the Chernobyl accident on forestry of Belarus. pp. 19--28.

2. THE CONDITION OF GENE POOLS OF MAIN FOREST FORMING SPECIES OCCURRING ON RADIOACTIVELY-CONTAMINATED AREAS

2.1. Estimation of the mutation rate in woody plants. pp. 29--55.
2.2. Change in the seed material quality and inherited changes in progeny of main forest forming species. pp. 55--67.

3. DYNAMIC FEATURES OF THE RADIATION REGIME IN FOREST ECOSYSTEMS

3.1 .The dynamics of radioactive contamination levels of the soil and tree layer. pp. 68--137.
3.2. The dynamics of radioactive contamination of forest-derived foodstuffs. pp. 137--160.
3.3. Transformation of forest zoocenoses. pp. 160--171.

4. PREDICTION OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION LEVELS OF FOREST ECOSYSTEMS

4.1. Modeling and predictive estimates of the radionuclide accumulation by woody plants and forest-derived foodstuffs. pp. 172--201.
4.2. The prediction of the formation of radiation doses on the population from forests and its products. pp. . pp. 172--201.

5. FORESTRY MANAGEMENT IN RADIOACTIVELY-CONTAMINATED FORESTS

5.1. Forest regulation in the conditions of the large-scale radioactive contamination. pp. 229--243.
5.2. Principal and intermediate yields. pp. 243--251.
5.3. Health standards of forest management established on radioactively-contaminated areas. pp. 251--258.
5.4. Biological and technological aspects of reforestation of radioactively-contaminated areas. pp. 258--278.
5.5. Protection of adioactively-contaminated forest stands. pp. 278--290.

6. ECOLOGICAL AND AMELIORATIVE METHODS FOR DECREASING ACCUMULATION OF RADIONUCLIDES BY WOODY PLANTS

6.1. The phytological method for regulation of the radionuclide uptake by roots of woody plants. pp. 291--312.
6.2. The decrease in the radionuclide accumulation by woody plants by the action on their nutritive regime. pp. 312--360.
6.3. Growing of woody plants with the regulated radionuclide contents on hydromorphic soils. pp. 360--370.

7. SYLVICULTURAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL METHODS OF COMPENSATION FOR LOSSES OF FOREST-DERIVED FOODSTUFFS INFLICTED BY THE LARGE-SCALE RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION OF FOREST ECOSYSTEMS

7.1. Sylvicultural methods for increasing berry plant resources. pp. 373--378.
7.2. Technological methods for commercial cultivation of berry plants. pp. 378--396.
7.3. The technology of commercial reproduction of medicinal forest fungi for victims of the nuclear accident occurred in 1986. pp. 396--406.

CONCLUSION. pp. 407--408.

REFERENCES. pp. 409--448.