Publications

2024

Zibtsev, S. (2024). Promoting science during wartime: The challenging work of FirEUrisk's Ukrainian partners

Sydorenko, S., Gumeniuk, V., De Miguel-Díez, F. et al. Assessment of the surface forest fuel load in the Ukrainian Polissia. fire ecol 20, 35 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00265-z

The environmental consequences of the war against Ukraine: Preliminary 12-month assessment, summary and recommendations. Conflict and Environment Observatory, Zoï Environment Network, OSCE, 2024, 27 p. ULR: sites/default/files/u184/osce-ukraine-env-cons_en.pdf

2023

Zibtsev S., Soshenskyi O., Gumeniuk V., Bohomolov V. Integrated Landscape Fire Management Plan in the Luhansk Oblast: monograph / Kyiv: Editorial and Publishing Department of NULES of Ukraine, 2023. 257 с. sites/default/files/u184/zibtsev_et_al._monograf_2023.pdf

Zibtsev S., Soshenskyi O., Borsuk O., Myroniuk V., Kireiev S. Protection of natural landscapes of the Exclusion Zone from fires and promising ways to reduce risks. Chornobyl Scientific and Technical Journal. May, 2023. С. 50-61. URL: http://zapovidnyk.org.ua/hub/hub-4-2023-05.pdf.

Soshenskyi O., Zibtsev S. Kalchuk Ye. Risks reduction of forest fires for settlements in Ukraine. International scientific and practical conference Food and environmental protection in the context of war and post-war reconstruction: challenges for Ukraine and the world. Section 2: Post-war restoration of plant resources and environmental protection of the country. May 25, 2023 Kyiv, Ukraine. P 480-481. ULR: https://nubip.edu.ua/sites/default/files/u381/sekciya_2.pdf

Impact assessment of military aggression of russian federation against Ukraine on fire regimes and carbon emissions / Zibtsev S., Myroniuk V., Vasylyshyn R., Soshenskyi O., Budzinskyi I., Vorotynskyi O., Kalchuk Ye., Goldammer J.G., Sydorenko S., Borsuk O., Zibtseva I. International scientific and practical conference Food and environmental protection in the context of war and post-war reconstruction: challenges for Ukraine and the world. Section 2: Post-war restoration of plant resources and environmental protection of the country. May 25, 2023 Kyiv, Ukraine. P 2444-246. ULR: https://nubip.edu.ua/sites/default/files/u381/sekciya_2.pdf

Goldammer J. G., Zibtsev S., Soshenskyi O. Wildfires: Collateral damages of war and nuclear heritage in Ukraine. Bonn International News, March 2023. ULR: Ausgabe 3 / 2023 - März 2023/

Zlbtsev S, Soshenskyi O., Melnykovych M., Blaser J., Waeber P. O., Patrick O, Garcia C. Ukrainische Wälder im Fokus von Klimakrise Krieg und Brandkatastrophen. Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen (2023) 174 (2): 115–117. https://doi.org/10.3188/szf.2023.0115

Zibtsev S.V., Soshenskyi O.M., Goldammer J.G., Myroniuk V.V., Borsuk O.A., Humeniuk V.V., Meshkova V.L., Vasyluk O.V., Buksha I.F. “Forest Management on Territories Contaminated with Unexploded Ordnance. Short report of the project WWF-Ukraine “Supporting responsible forestry for sustainable development in Central and Eastern Europe”. WWF-Ukraine, 2023. 24 p. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22495.12966

2022

2021

Goldammer, J.G. 2021. Thirty Years International Wildland Fire Conferences: Review and Achievements of a Circumglobal Journey from Boston to Campo Grande. In: Edição Temática: 7th International Wildland Fire Conference: Full text articles. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Número Especial, Biodiversidade Brasileira 11 (2), 1-47 (Steil L., Nóbrega de Oliveira L., Rivera-Lombardi R., eds.), DOI: 10.37002/biobrasil.v10i2.1743.

Joanne V Hall1, Sergiy V Zibtsev, Louis Giglio, Sergii Skakun, Viktor Myroniuk, Oleksandr Zhuravel, Johann Georg Goldammer and Natalia Kussul. Environmental and political implications of underestimated cropland burning in Ukraine. Environ. Res. Lett. 16 (2021) 064019 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfc04

2019

Dmytrii Holiaka, Valerii Kashparov, Svjatoslav Levchuk. Radiological situation in forests of Ukraine on late phase of the Chernobyl disaster. In the Proceedings of the XXV World International Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, 28 September - 5 October 2019, Curitiba, Brazil. http://dx.doi.org/10.4336/2019.pfb.39e201902043. URL: https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/events/iwc19/iwc19-abstracts.pdf 

Myroniuk, Alan Ager, Richard Lasko, Joe Reinarz, Johann Georg Goldammer et at. Joint international efforts and challenges for enhancing fire management capabilities in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. In the Proceedings of the XXV World International Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, 28 September - 5 October 2019, Curitiba, Brazil. http://dx.doi.org/10.4336/2019.pfb.39e201902043 . URL: https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/events/iwc19/iwc19-abstracts.pdf

Zibtsev S., Goldammer I., Challenges in Managing Landscape Fires in Eastern Europe.2019. Fire Management Today. Volume 77, Issue 1 URL: https://nubip.edu.ua/sites/default/files/u184/usfs-fire-management-today-77-1-may-2019.pdf 

 Joanne Hall, Victor Myroniuk, Sergii Skakun et al. Improved Cropland Burning Emissions Inventory in Ukraine: A Regional Case Study. 2019. AGU 2019 Fall meeting. URL: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/webprogrampreliminary/Paper497665.html

 Alan A. Ager, Richard Lasko, Sergiy Zibtsev, Viktor Myroniuk et al. The wildfire problem in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster. Science of the Total Environment 696 (2019) 133954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133954

George N. Zaimes, Sergiy Zibtsev, Petros A. Tsioras, Chrysovalantis Kiosses, et al. Perspectives on protected area and wildfire management in the Black Sea region. Journal of Forestry Research. Res. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-018-0857-5

Petro Lakyda, Anatoly Shvidenko, Andrii Bilous, Viktor Myroniuk et al. Impact of Disturbances on the Carbon Cycle of Forest Ecosystems in Ukrainian Polissya. Forests (2019), 10(4), 337; https://doi.org/10.3390/f10040337. https://www.mdpi.com/445536

2018

Zibtsev S., Goldammer J., Bogomolov V., Myroniuk V., Oleksandr Soshenskyi and Vasyl Gumeniuk. Regional fire management strategy, fire management plan and decision-support system for the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Geophysical Research Abstracts. Vol. 20, EGU2018-14942, 2018.- EGU General Assembly 2018. URL: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018EGUGA..2014942Z

Anatoly Shvidenko, Florian Kraxner, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Petro Lakyda, Sergiy Zibtsev, Roman Vasylyshyn, Victor Myronjuk, Andriy Biolous, Ivan Lakyda .Valuation of ecosystem services in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and adjacent territories. Geophysical Research Abstracts. Vol. 20, EGU2018-15344, 2018EGU General Assembly 2018.  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330411097_Valuation_of_ecosystem_services_in_the_Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone_and_adjacent_territories .

Evangeliou N., A. Kylling, S.  Eckhardt, Zibtsev S. Open fires in Greenland: an unusual event and its impact on the albedo of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Discussion Paper. Copernicus Publication, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2018-94 https://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/acp-2018-94/

Mitsopoulos I., Mallinis, G., Zibtsev S., Borsuk, A., Zaimes, G. An integrated approach for mapping fire suppression difficulty in three different ecosystems of Eastern Europe. Journal of Spatial Science. – 2017. – Vol. 62. – Issue 1. – P. 139–155. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14498596.2016.1169952

2017

Mitsopoulos I., Mallinis, G., Zibtsev S., Borsuk, A., Zaimes, G. An integrated approach for mapping fire suppression difficulty in three different ecosystems of Eastern Europe. Journal of Spatial Science. – 2017. – Vol. 62. – Issue 1. – P. 139–155. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14498596.2016.1169952 (https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14498596.2016.1169952)

2016

Evangeliou N., Zibtsev S., V. Myroniuk, M. Zhurba et al. Resuspension and atmospheric transport of radionuclides due to wildfires near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 2015: An impact assessment. Scientific Reports. 2016. Vol. 6. Article number: 26062. Doi: 10.1038/srep26062. URL: http://rdcu.be/i1GL

Zibtsev S., Balabukh V. Impact of climate change on quantity and area of forest fires in the northern part of the Black Sea Region of Ukraine. Ukrainian hydrometeorological Journal, 2016, № 18. URL:  https://www.researchgate.net/deref/http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.31481%2Fuhmj.18.2016.07?_sg%5B0%5D=SWEnnN6UlNPmDa2b0ma_18ihs8LYO1vm4r-j9nEfcorPI0aFgf_tPh3Xcr74l9zMdf4IRvMwsJ6RNDW3EGa1vMUlIg.1TayNE02czTevFqlVLkoXhiTDN2ASgET-4A4jN3bw7G52zs-jAEkQyfz0Qq1A0CHEWMhVdTvth30yIKFZUcaHg

Evangeliou N., T. Hamburger, N. Talerko, Zibtsev S. Reconstructing the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP) accident 30 years after. A unique database of air concentration and deposition measurements over Europe. Environmental Pollution. – 2016. - Vol. 216. – P. 408–418. http://www.sciencedirect.com/s cience/article/pii/S0269749116304110

Zaimes G., Zibtsev S., Tufekcioglu M., Tufekcioglu Z. Transboundary collaborations to enhance wildfire suppression in protected areas of the Black Sea region. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review. – 2016. – Vol. 9(2). – P. 108-114. http://www.jestr.org/downloads/Volume9Issue2/fulltext18922016.pdf

2015

Evangeliou, N., Balkanski, Y. Cozic, A., Zibtsev S. et al. Fire evolution in the radioactive forests of Ukraine and Belarus: Future risks for the population and the environment. Ecological Monographs, 2015. Vol. 85. N 1. Pages 49-72. EID: 2-s2.0-84924566196. URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84924566196&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Zibtsev S., Goldammer J., Robinson S., Borsuk O. Fires in nuclear forests: Silent threats to the environment and human security. In: Unasylva, 2015. Vol. 66. N. 243-244. - Pages 40-51.URL:http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84924624037&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Kashparov V., Ghurba M., Zibtsev S. et al. Evaluation of the expected doses of fire brigades at the Chornobyl exclusion zone in April 2015. Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy, 2015. V. 16. № 4. С. 399-407. URL: http://jnpae.kinr.kiev.ua/16.4.html

2014

George N, Zibtsev S., Tüfekçioğlu, M. Yavuz et al. Developing a Holistic and Complete Approach for Wildfire Suppression for the Black Sea Region. Proceedings of the conference “Forest Fires In the Black Sea Region”, 2014, Kastamonu, Turkey. P.9-18. URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergiy_Zibtsev/publications

Zaimes G., Mitsopoulos I., Saglam B., Zibtsev S. et al. Innovative techniques to suppress wildfires in the Black Sea Region. Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research. XXIV IUFRO World Congress, 5-11 October 2014, Salt Lake City, USA. Abstracts, Salt Lake City, USA. P. 168. https://www.iufro.org/download/file/16684/4139/iwc14-abstracts_pdf/.

Zibtsev S., LaRoche D., Oliver C.D., Goldammer J. et al. Managing the irradiated forest of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for nature conservation, fire protection, and biomass fuel production. Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research. XXIV IUFRO World Congress, 5-11 October 2014, Salt Lake City, USA. Abstracts, Salt Lake City, USA. P. 186.

Lakyda P., Vasylyshyn R., Bilous A., Zibtsev S. et al. Deposited Carbon in Ukrainian Forests: Current Stock and Midterm Forecast. Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research. XXIV IUFRO World Congress, 5-11 October 2014, Salt Lake City, USA. Abstracts, Salt Lake City, USA. P. 

Zibtsev S. Report assessment of disturbances in Ukrainian forests. sites/default/files/u184/gesapu_ukraine_forest_disturbance_06_2014-2.pdf

2013

WILD LAND FIRES IN THE BLACK SEA REGION: IMPACT, MANAGEMENT AND NEEDS FOR INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES 
Zibtsev S., Mitsopoulos I., Mallinis G., Saglam B., Borsuk A., Zaimes N., Yavuz M., Galupa D., Emmanouloudis D., Uratu R., Moisei R. and Ghulijanyan A.

INNOVATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF STREAM WATER TO SUPPRESS FIRES IN PROTECTED AREAS: OVERVIEW OF THE STREAMS-2-SUPPRESS-FIRES PROJECT 
George N. Zaimes, Mustafa Tufekcioglu, Aydin Tufekcioglu, Sergiy Zibtsev, Dimitrios Kaziolas, Mehmet Yavuz, Ilya Trombitsky, Dimitrios Emmanouloudis, Razvan Uratu, Andranik Ghulijanyan, and Anatolii Borsuk

FIRE HISTORY IN MOUNTAIN FORESTS OF THE CRIMEAN PENINSULA OF UKRAINE 
Anatolii Borsuk and Sergiy Zibtsev

BIOPRODUCTIVITY OF UKRAINIAN FORESTS IN CONDITIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE 
P. Lakyda, R. Vasylyshyn, S. Zibtsev, A. Bilous, I. Lakyda

ПІСЛЯПОЖЕЖНЕ ВІДНОВЛЕННЯ ЖИВОГО НАДҐРУНТОВОГО ПОКРИВУ У ЛІСОВИХ НАСАДЖЕННЯХ ПОЛІСЬКОГО ПРИРОДНОГО ЗАПОВІДНИКА 
В.В. Гуменюк

ВПЛИВ НИЗОВОЇ ПОЖЕЖІ НА ДЕРЕВОСТАН ТА НАЗЕМНІ ЛІСОВІ ГОРЮЧІ МАТЕРІАЛИ В СОСНОВИХ ЛІСАХ ЦЕНТРАЛЬНОГО ПОЛІССЯ УКРАЇНИ 
В.В. Гуменюк, С.В. Зібцев, А.А. Борсук

2012

THE HUMAN HEALTH EFFECTS OF RADIOACTIVE SMOKE FROM A CATASTROPHIC WILDFIRE IN THE CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE: A WORST CASE SCENARIO