Conference dedicated to the centenary of the biological station. First letter

The information letter can be downloaded in PDF format in Russian, Ukrainian, and English. Information Letter 1 Dear Colleagues! V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University invites you to participate in the International Scientific Conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Seversky-Donets Biological Station named after Professor V.M. Arnoldi from September 24 to 27, 2014. The conference will be held at the biological station (Gaidary village, Zmiiv district, Kharkiv region, Ukraine). At the conference, you will be able to present the results of scientific research conducted at biological stations and stationary sites in the following areas: ► biodiversity studies ► ecological research ► genetic research ► conservation research Working languages of the conference – Russian, Ukrainian, and English. Participation formats: full-time – with a presentation (oral, poster) or without a presentation, with or without publication; correspondence – publication of an article. By the beginning of the conference, it is planned to publish materials in the form of articles in a special issue of the journal "Vestnik of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series: Biology", which is included in the Thomson Scientific Master Journal List and is included in the list of specialized scientific publications where the results of dissertation works for the degrees of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences can be published. During the conference, it is planned to hold thematic round tables and master classes, excursions to the National Natural Park "Homilshanski Lesy", the Museum of Nature, and the Botanical Garden of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. WE WILL BE GLAD TO MEET YOU AT ONE OF THE OLDEST BIOLOGICAL STATIONS IN UKRAINE! Composition of the conference organizing committee: Chairman: Katrich Viktor Alexandrovich (Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, First Vice-Rector for Scientific Work of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University) Deputy Chairman: Vorobyova Lyudmila Ivanovna (Candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Genetics and Cytology, Dean of the Faculty of Biology) Committee Members: Udod Anatoliy Nikolaevich (Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Vice-Rector for Administrative and Economic Affairs) Dogadina Tatyana Vasilievna (Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Botany and Plant Ecology) Tokarsky Viktor Arsenievich (Doctor of Biological Sciences, Head of the Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology)

D.A. Shabanov (Candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Mycology and Phytoscience), I.N. Bondar (Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology), Director of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Biological Station - O.V. Bezrodnova (Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Botany and Plant Ecology). Applications for participation (template in Appendix 1) should be sent to biostation2014@mail.ru no later than March 10, 2014 (if multiple authors are involved in writing the article or preparing the report, the registration form must be completed for each of them). For full-time participation, an organizational fee of 180 UAH or 16 € (90 UAH – 8 € for students) is required, which includes the cost of the conference materials package, excursions, transportation Kharkiv – Biological Station – Kharkiv, coffee breaks, and a buffet for the conference opening. If a participant pays the organizational fee but cannot attend, the conference materials will be mailed to their specified address within 3-4 weeks after the conference). For part-time participants, the organizational fee is 80 UAH or 5 € (please indicate your preferred postal service in the application: "Ukrposhta" or "Nova Poshta"). Attention! Article publication is not included in the organizational fee and is paid separately. You will pay for postal services upon receipt of the package. Articles containing the results of original fundamental and applied research, 4-10 pages in length (formatting rules in Appendix 2), will be accepted for publication. Send articles to seriesbiology@ukr.net by April 10, 2014, as a separate file in *.doc format, with the first author's last name in Latin letters in the file name (e.g., Ivanov.doc). Along with the electronic version, send a signed hard copy and one review of the article from a specialist in the field of research. The article will be peer-reviewed and, if there are no comments, will be approved for printing. The Organizing Committee and the editorial board reserve the right to edit and shorten manuscripts, as well as to return works to authors that do not meet the requirements or the conference theme. Information on acceptance or rejection of the article will be communicated to the authors within 10-14 days after receiving the electronic version of the manuscript. The cost of publishing 1 page of a manuscript formatted according to the rules is 40 UAH (4 €). Payment is to be made after the author receives confirmation of the article's acceptance for publication. Attention! Materials (application, article, or payment receipts) are considered received if the organizing committee has sent a confirmation of receipt of their electronic versions to your email address. If such confirmation is not received within a week of the initial sending, please contact the conference coordinators (by phone or other convenient method). The cost of accommodation at the biological station is 15 UAH (1.5 €) per person (rooms are 2-4-bedded in wooden cabins). Three meals a day will be organized for conference participants (60 UAH or 5 € per person per day). If desired, conference participants can stay and dine at a recreation center located near the biological station, in a four-star hotel. The estimated cost of a double room is 500 UAH (45 €) per night. The cost of accommodation at the recreation center will be specified in the second information letter. Attention! Payment for accommodation and meals is to be covered by the organization sending the participant or by the participant themselves upon arrival at the conference. The second information letter and official invitation to the conference will be sent after June 1, 2014, to registered participants. Important dates:

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Appendix 1 Application for participation in the International Scientific Conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Seversky Donets Biological Station named after Professor V.M. Arnoldi, Kharkiv, September 22-26, 2014

Please indicate your participation format: * In-person attendance at the conference with an oral presentation at a plenary or section meeting, with or without publication of materials. * Participation in a poster session, with or without publication of materials. * Direct participation in the conference without a presentation or publication. * Remote participation with publication. Please specify your preferred postal service: "Ukrposhta" or "Nova Poshta" (and the specific branch if there are multiple in the city). Please indicate your planned accommodation: at the biological station or at the recreation center, for how many nights, and with which other participants you would like to share accommodation. **Appendix 2: Article Formatting Guidelines** Articles can be submitted in Ukrainian, Russian, or English. Use Microsoft Word with the following settings: * Font: Arial * Paragraph Indentation: 1 cm * Line Spacing: Single * Margins: Top and Bottom – 3.5 cm; Left and Right – 2 cm. The article should begin with the UDC index. On the next line, the title should be in regular font (Arial, 12 pt). This should be followed by the author's initials and surname (Arial, 10 pt), and then the full name of the scientific institution and email address (Arial, 9 pt). The abstract (in Russian, Ukrainian, and English) should be approximately 10 lines long (Arial, 9 pt). Below the abstract, a list of keywords (no more than 10) should be printed in italics. The abstract should convey the essence of the research, its main results, and their interpretation. It should not include filler words, introductory phrases, or uninformative sentences. The abstract for the language in which the article is written should appear first. Before each subsequent abstract (in the corresponding language), include the article title, author information (surname and initials, institution, email), and after it, the keywords. The main text of the article should include the following sections: "Introduction," "Methods" (or "Objects and Methods of Research"), "Results," "Discussion" (or "Results and Discussion"), and "References" (Arial, 10 pt). The "Introduction" section should present the problem in a general context and its connection to important scientific or practical tasks. It should include a brief analysis of recent research and publications that have begun to address the problem, identify specific unresolved issues to which the article is dedicated, state the working hypothesis, and formulate the study's objective. The "Methods" section should provide brief details about the research location, the specifics of the research object(s), and the subject of the study. This section should include information on the methods used for data collection and processing, the instruments employed, and statistical analysis methods. When a species is mentioned for the first time, its full Latin name (in italics) and the classification author must be provided. The "Results" section should solely describe the observed effects without commentary; all comments and explanations should be in the "Discussion." The presentation of results should not be a mere retelling of tables and graphs but should reflect the patterns derived from the data. When describing results, it is recommended to use the past tense. The purpose of the "Discussion" section is to summarize and interpret the results, analyzing the cause-and-effect relationships between the observed effects. The information obtained should be compared with existing literature data, highlighting its novelty. The discussion should conclude by answering the questions posed in the introduction. Tables should be placed within the text and each must have a title. Figures should be in black and white and placed within the text. Each figure must have a title. Citations in the text should be presented in parentheses, including the author's surname and publication year. The reference list should be alphabetized, first by Cyrillic script, then by Latin script. The list should not be numbered. **Example of UDC formatting:** 581.526.42(477.54) Herbage cover heterogeneity as indicator of ecology-phytocoenotical and biotopical diversity in oak forests O.V.Bezrodnova 1 , I.M.Loza 2 , N.N.Nazarenko 3 1 – V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine), o.bezrodnova@mail.ru 2 – O. Gonchar Dnepropetrovsk National University (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine), irinaloza23@gmail.com 3 – National University of Life and Environmental Sciences (Kiev, Ukraine), nnazarenko@hotmail.com There were surveyed the oak forests grown on the steep ravine slope near the Severskiy Donets River (the Don basin) within the area of National Park "Homolshansky lisy" (Kharkiv region, Ukraine). Study of spatial heterogeneity of herbage cover structure allowed distinguishing statistically significantly the seven types of multi-species mosaics on the coenotical level ... Key words: biotope, oak forest, herbage cover, coenotical mosaic, phytoindication, ordination, environmental regimes. (The Russian and Ukrainian versions of the title, author information, abstract, and keywords are also provided in the original text.) **Attention!** For more detailed formatting rules, please visit https://seriesbiology.univer.kharkov.ua