Updated: 10/1/2020
In recent years, specialists of the Graduate Department of Botany have been successfully implementing the joint Swedish-Ukrainian project "how the East was won: towards the ecological history of the steppe" ("how the East was won: Towards the ecological history of the Eurasian steppe", head of the Ukrainian group Prof. Moisienko I. I., which is carried out jointly with Stockholm University, funded by the Swedish scientific committee, 2013-2019).
For 2014-2018, teachers of the Department of Botany successfully completed state budget applied research topics, which were funded by the Ministry of education and science of Ukraine: "methodology for implementing technologies for preserving Phyto-diversity in the conditions of agro-landscapes of the south of Ukraine" (registration number 0113U003115, head Professor M. F. Boyko, 2014-2015); "Phyto-diversity as the basis for the formation of an eco-network of an anthropogenic fragmented steppe region" (scientific supervisor Prof.F., 2014-2015). Currently, two fundamental research topics are being implemented: "molecular phylogeny, taxonomy, diversity and protection of phyto-and lichenobiotes of the northern Black Sea region" (scientific supervisor Prof. A. E. Khodosovtsev, 2016-2018, No. 0114u002518) and "anthropogenic transformation of the Phyto - diversity of the northern Black Sea region: regularities and possibilities of process management" (scientific supervisor Prof. I. I. Moisienko, 2017-2019 PP.).
Over the past five years, specialists of the Graduate Department have implemented 14 contractual topics, the topics of which concerned the development of cadastral documentation of protected objects and the study of the state and problems of using natural resources of local significance: ""primary accounting card of the general Zoological reserve of local significance "Korsunsky" (scientific supervisor Prof. Boyko M. F., customer - State Enterprise "Kakhov Forestry", 2013-2014); "Scientific justification of the presence of Red Book species of plants and animals on the coastal dump of Kozak island (Kazatskoye Village, Berislavsky district, Kherson region) "(scientific supervisor, Prof. Moiseenko I. I., Customer – LLC agricultural enterprise" Nibulon"; 2014);" assessment of dredging operations on representatives of the animal and plant world of the coastal territories of the Southern Bug River from Voznesensk to Nikolaev (within the Balovnensky and Kiryakovsky village councils of the Nikolaev area) " (scientific supervisor Prof. Moisienko I. I., Customer – LLC agricultural enterprise "Nibulon", 2014); "justification of the recreational load of plots "Skadovsky experimental forest hunting farm" (scientific supervisor Prof. Moisienko I. I., Customer – DP Skadovsky experimental forest hunting farm, 2014); "amendments to the scientific justification of the need to declare a landscape reserve of local significance "Balka Bolshye Serogozi" (scientific supervisor Prof. Boyko M. F.; customer – Department of Ecology and Natural Resources hog resources, 2016); "Development of a scientific justification for the creation of the regional landscape park "Gilea "(scientific supervisor Prof. A. E. Khodosovtsev, customer – Department of Ecology and natural resources of the hog, 2017); " Registration of cadastral documentation for the territory of the object of the nature reserve fund-forest reserve of national significance "Birch stakes" (in Form 1 of the DKPZF)" (scientific supervisor Prof. A. E. Khodosovtsev, customer – Department of Ecology and natural resources of the hog, 2017); "Registration of cadastral documentation for the territory of the object of the nature reserve fund-forest reserve of national significance "Ingulets" and "Bolshye Serogozi Beam" (in the form of 1 DKPZF)" (scientific supervisor Prof. A. E. Khodosovtsev, customer – Department of Ecology and natural resources of KHOGA, 2017); "Registration of cadastral documentation for the territory of the object of the nature reserve fund – reserve tract of local significance "Arkhangelsk forest" (scientific supervisor Prof.Khodosovtsev A. E., customer-Department ecology and natural resources of hog, 2018); "Registration of cadastral documentation for the territory of the object of the nature reserve fund-the Reserve tract of local significance" flying Sands "(scientific supervisor Prof. Khodosovtsev O. E., customer – Department of Ecology and natural resources of the hog, 2018); "Registration of cadastral documentation for the territory of the object of the nature reserve fund-the Reserve tract of local significance" Nedogorsky forest " (scientific supervisor Prof.Khodosovtsev O. E.; customer – Department of Ecology and natural resources of the hog, 2018); "Registration of cadastral documentation for the territory of the object of the nature reserve fund-reserve tract of local significance "Novodmitrovsky forest" (scientific supervisor, Prof. Khodosovtsev O. E.; customer – Department of Ecology and natural resources of the hog, 2018); "scientific justification of the need to create an object of the nature reserve fund – reserve of local significance "Karadai" (agreement of July 25, 2018 № 10/2018) (scientific supervisor, Prof.Moisienko I. I., 2018., Customer-Department of Ecology and natural resources of hog); "Assessment of the impact of the project "new construction of a berthing structure at the transshipment terminal of JV Nibulon LLC for the shipment of grain and oilseeds on river transport at 2B Beregovaya Street, Golaya Pristan, Kherson region "on representatives of the animal and plant World" (Scientific Supervisor I. I. Moisienko, customer – Nibulon agricultural enterprise LLC, 2018).
Thanks to the successfully implemented projects of the Graduate Department of Botany, Kherson State University has earned UAH 1,321,516 in the last five years alone.
Based on the results of comprehensive scientific research conducted over the past five years, the Faculty of the Graduate Department has published 310 scientific publications. They include 5 monographs: Solomakha I. V., Vorobyov E. A., Moisienko I. I. vegetation cover of forests and shrubs of the northern Black Sea region. – Kiev: Phytosociocenter, 2015. – 387 P.Didukh Ya. P., Malaya Yu. I., Pashkevich N. A., Fitsailo T. V., Khodosovtsev O. E. biotopes of the mountainous Crimea. - K.: LLC "NPP interservice", 2016. - 292 P.; Polyanskaya K. V., Borisenko K. A., Pavlachik P., Moisienko I. I. et al. Involvement of the public and scientists in the design of the Emerald network in Ukraine / / ed. by Doctor of Biological Sciences A. Kuzemko. Kiev, 2017, 304 P.; Solomakha V. A. Ed.vascular plants of the Emerald network under the protection of the Berne Convention. Team of authors (Moisienko I. I.). - Zhytomyr: Ed. A. A. Evenok, 2017. – 152 P.; national catalog of biotopes of Ukraine. Edited by A. A. Kuzemko, Ya.P. Didukh, V. A. Onishchenko, Ya.Schaeffer. K.: FLP Klimenko Yu. Ya., 2018. – 553 P. (Moisienko I. I., Khodosovtsev O. E., Zakharova M. Ya.). Professor O. Is. Khodosovtsev, in collaboration with other scientists, published 3 textbooks for secondary schools "Biology" (grades 6, 7, and 8). In addition, the staff of the department has 37 articles published in the world's leading journals, which is included in the scientometric databases SCOPUS and Web of Science. Employees of the department are constantly published in leading scientific foreign journals: Lichenologist, Opuscula Philolichenum, Biodiversity and Conservation, Nova Hedwigia, Herzogia, Wulfenia, Turkish Botanical Journal, Polish Botanical Journal, Annales Botanici Fennici, Journal of systems and Evolution, Plant Biosystems, Acta Oecologica, Folia grypogamica estonica, kitaibellia, Biodiversity: Research and conservation, basic and Applied Ecology, Phytocoenologia, Acta Oecologica, etc.). 65 articles have been published in professional publications of Ukraine (Ukrainian Botanical Journal, Black Sea Botanical Journal, Studia Biologia, Bulletin of Odessa National University, biology series, etc.).
On the basis of the Graduate Department of Botany, the professional publication "Black Sea Botanical Journal" has been published since 2005 (editor-in-chief, Professor A. E. Khodosovtsev). In the last five years alone, 16 issues (245 printed sheets) have been prepared. In addition, every year the Department publishes the collection "Science and methodology", undergraduates can be published. Employees of the Department of Botany are members of editorial boards, in particular in the Black Sea Botanical Journal - Prof. I. I. Moisienko, Prof. M. F. Boyko, Assoc. Melnyk R. P., in the Ukrainian Botanical Journal-Prof. O. E. Khodosovtsev and others.
Over the past five years, 6 scientific conferences and scientific and practical seminars of various levels have been organized and held on the basis of the Graduate Department of Botany, including the International Conference "plant world in the Red Book of Ukraine: implementation of the global strategy for Plant Conservation (2018); international seminars "historical ecology of Agriculture of the South Ukrainian steppes "(2015, 2017); All-Ukrainian conferences" Congress of phytobiologists of the Kherson region and the Black Sea region "(2015)," scientific readings dedicated to I. K. Pachoskom" (2014) and" topical issues of Botany and ecology " (2016), which address topical issues of the development of biological science, environmental issues and problems of preserving the region's biodiversity. In addition to those organized by the department itself, teachers often take part in international, national and regional conferences. In particular, over the past five years alone, the Department's staff has presented 67 materials at more than 20 conferences.
The teaching staff of the department takes an active part in the work of scientific, technical and specialized councils. Professor A. E. Khodosovtsev is a member of the dissertation Council for the defense of doctoral theses in Botany and Mycology, operating at the M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Professors M. F. Boyko, I. I. Moisienko and O. E. Khodosovtsev are members of the scientific and technical Council of the National Nature Park "Nizhnedniprovsky"; Prof. O. E. Moisienko, Prof. O. E. Khodosovtsev, Assoc. R. P. Melnik - National Nature Park "Oleshkovsky Sands"; Prof. I. I. Moisienko - National Nature Park "Dzharylgatsky", Prof. I. I. Moisienko and O. E. Khodosovtsev – Biosphere Reserve"Askania-Nova named after F. E. Falz-Fein".
Postgraduate studies at Kherson State University were opened in 1992 by a decree of the Ministry of education of Ukraine in 8 scientific specialties. At the Department of Botany in different years there was a postgraduate course in the specialties 03.00.05 Botany, 03.00.26 Mycology and 03.00.16 Ecology. During the years of the postgraduate program's existence, 8 PhD theses were defended, among the graduates of the Postgraduate Program, 2 men received the degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences. in 2016, the faculty licensed the training of applicants for the 3rd (educational and scientific) level of Higher Education-doctors of Philosophy PHD in the specialty 091 Biology. Currently, 3 people receive the qualification of Doctor of Philosophy at the Department.
A significant place in the Graduate Department is given to working with talented students. Student research groups are functioning fruitfully:" Floristics "(headed by Professor M. F. Boyko)," Ecology, taxonomy and geography of vascular plants "(headed by Professor of the Department of Botany, Associate Professor I. I. Moisienko)," Likhenology "(headed by Professor A. E. Khodosovtsev)," Biomophology " (headed by Associate Professor N. R. Pavlova). Problem groups consist of the best students. At the group meetings, theoretical issues related to the modern development of biological science are discussed, and routes of field scientific expeditions are developed. Under the guidance of the teaching staff, students published 30 scientific papers. Students under the guidance of teachers of the department take part in all-Ukrainian Olympiads in biology, all-Ukrainian competitions of scientific papers in biology dedicated to fundamental and Applied Research. According to the results of the work of student creative teams, Valery Darmostuk became the prize-winner of the student Olympiad in biology (Diploma of the III degree of the All-Ukrainian student Olympiad in biology, Zhytomyr State Pedagogical University named after Ivan Franko, 2015). Post-graduate student of the Department of Botany V. V. Darmostuk received a scholarship of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young scientists.
Thanks to the successfully implemented scientific projects of the Graduate Department of Botany to create new national nature parks "Nizhnedniprovsky", "Oleshkovsky Sands", "Dzharylgatsky" in the south of Ukraine, graduates of the specialty "Biology" of Kherson State University (G. A. Naumovich, V. V. Dzerkalo, A. A. Shaposhnikova, A. M. Sadovaya, A. A. Ponomareva, V. M. Klimenko, S. Y. Shevtsov, etc.) successfully work in new jobs.
The Department cooperates under Creative contracts with the Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve named after F. E. Falz-Fein, Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, Azov-Sivash National Park, Research Farm "Novokakhovskoe" Nikitsky Botanical Garden-National Research Center, Nature Reserve "Elanetsky steppe", Opuk nature reserve, Kazantip nature reserve, with the University of Poznań, with the Department of Botany Poznań agrarian university named after Avngust Ceshkowski (Poznań, Poland), Warsaw University (Poland), with the Department of higher plants, Department of Lichenology and briology of the Institute of Botany. M. G. Kholodny of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, with the Department of Botany of Kharkiv State University, the Botanical Museum of the National Natural Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kryvyi Rih Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, etc.
In 1998, the department established a scientific laboratory of biodiversity and environmental monitoring (headed by A. E. Khodosovtsev), which in 2003 was named after the outstanding Ukrainian scientist I. K. Pachosky. In 2003, the department established the laboratory of plant ecology and Environmental Protection (head – Associate Professor I. I. Moisienko). Professor of the Department of Botany M. F. Boyko is the head of the research laboratory of Plant Introduction, created at the Agrobiostation-Botanical Garden of KHSU.
In 1992, the Department of Botany completed a scientific topic on the study of bryoflora of the steppe zone of Europe ( doctor of biological sciences, professor M. F. Boyko). In 1997, a scientific topic on the study of plant ontomorphogenesis and introduction was completed. From 2000 to 2004, the state budget research topic “Critical and taxonomic study of plants and fungi in the south of Ukraine” was carried out, new types of lichens, new forms of Mosses were described for science, and new types of adventitious plants were found for Ukraine and the region. From 2005 to 2008, the state budget scientific topic "Phytobiological and landscape diversity of limestone and loess outcrops of the Black Sea region and their protection" was carried out, during which the regularities of the processes of overgrowth of limestone and loess outcrops were revealed, and a systematic analysis of phyto - and lichenobiota was carried out.
In the late 90s of the twentieth century, the Kherson Botanical School of Professor M. F. Boyko was formed, which can solve complex scientific and methodological problems. The main directions of the school's research activities are:
study of the biodiversity of the plant and fungal world of southern Ukraine,including Crimea;
taxonomies of plants and fungi, their biomorphology, floristry, phylogeny, and sozology;
conducting environmental monitoring and phyto - indication; research of anthropogenic changes and protection and rational use of plants and fungi, nature reserve fund, Phyto-pollution of ecosystems, bio-destruction of ancient monuments, phylogenetic and ecological aspects of the biosynthesis of organic substances and the content of heavy metals in plants of natural and cultural ecosystems;
methodological foundations of teaching Botanical disciplines.