Research Laboratory of Biomonitoring

Olha Mykolaivna Kunakh

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor

Head of the Research Laboratory of Biomonitoring

ORCID: 0000-0002-3631-8884

kunah_olga@ukr.net

The principal research focus of the Research Laboratory of Biomonitoring is the comprehensive study of biodiversity, its role in the environment, and the effects of various environmental factors on the current state of biological diversity, as well as a wide range of issues related to nature conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources. The laboratory’s research and applied activities include the development of innovative systems and tools for environmental monitoring, the development of new criteria for assessing environmental impacts, the establishment of protected natural areas and other objects of the nature reserve fund, and the development and implementation of modern methods of biological environmental protection, among others.

The Research Laboratory of Biomonitoring is equipped with modern research instrumentation and extensive collections of biological materials, enabling it to carry out fundamental research projects at a high scientific level, address relevant practical and economic challenges, and contribute to the development and implementation of national and regional programmes.

Research and applied services that can be provided by the Research Laboratory of Biomonitoring of the Research Institute of Biology of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University:

Environmental impact assessment;
Development of management regimes for natural and artificial objects;
Development of scientific and biological as well as economic justifications;
Development of measures for the restoration and reclamation of disturbed natural objects;
Ecotoxicological assessment of environmental quality;
Biomonitoring of various natural and artificial objects;
Development of measures to minimise the adverse effects of biological invasions;
Assessment of the functional state of biodiversity;
Development of biodiversity conservation measures;
Assessment of the quality of ecosystem functions of various ecosystem components.

Scientific and scientific-technical products may be provided to clients in the form of practical recommendations, scientific and biological justifications, biotechnological justifications, and scientific and practical consultations.

Grants and projects completed by the laboratory staff over the past five years:

0117U001207 – Environmental Foundations of the Zoocentric Impact of Animals on the Optimisation Processes of Natural and Disturbed Ecosystems under Contemporary Nature Management Conditions (2017–2019);

0118U003305 – Concept of Managing Transformations of Contemporary Animal Biodiversity in the Steppe Zone of Ukraine under Climate Change (2018-2020);

0119U100718 – Concept of Innovative Biomonitoring of Toxic Loads on Animals in Natural and Artificial Ecosystems (2019–2021);

0120U102289 – Criteria for Assessing Anthropogenic Transformation of Ecosystems Based on Quantitative Indicators of Biological Diversity for Optimising the Environmental Impact Assessment Procedure (2020–2022);

0121U111707 – Concept of Assessment and Management of Non-Timber Forest Resources in the Steppe Zone of Ukraine under Climate Change (2021–2023);

0123U101547 – Innovative Concept for Applying the Principles and Methods of Remote Ecology to Assess the Impact of Military Activities on Ecosystem Services (2023-2025), and others.

Laboratory Staff

Olha Mykolaivna Kunakh

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor

Fields of expertise: ecology, spatial ecology, zoology, bioindication

ORCID: 0000-0002-3631-8884

kunah_olga@ukr.net

Larysa Volodymyrivna Shupranova