Palaeoecological reconstruction of ecosystems as a basis for conservation planning of protected areas

To uncover the composition of ecosystems before anthropogenic intensification in model protected areas (PLA, NP). The knowledge of long-term dynamics is an important basis for prioritization in the management plans and formulation of restoration targets in the context of local effects of global change and ongoing exploitation. To provide transfer to practice of the results of these researches (obtained by the project and existing in poorly accessible databases and foreign scientific publications). Provide the methodology of identification of "natural archives" containing paleoecological record. This will be achieved by outputs in an accessible form in practice: methodology (1x), books (2x), regional articles (5x), maps (min. 3x) and seminars in the regions (PLA and NP administration).