Ukrainian national forest monitoring system is organized, performed and guided by the scientific organizations of
Ukrainian State Committee of Forestry (USCF).

General supervision is provided by the Scientific and Information Department of the USCF.

The Laboratory of Forest Monitoring and Radioecology at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry and Forest Melioration (URIFFM) is the main forest monitoring implementation center in Ukraine.

The monitoring network covers main forest regions of the country and represents different geographical zones. It consists of 330 plots in 18 administrative regions of Ukraineand Autonomous Republic Crimea.

English Name

Scientific Name

Ukrainian Name

Pine

mostly Pinus sylvestris

Sosna

Spruce

mostly Picea abies

Yalyna evropeiska (smereka)

Fir

mostly Abies alba

Yalytsya

Oak

mostly Quercus robur

Doob

Beech

Fagus sylvatica

Book

Hornbeam

Carpinus betulus

Grab

Ash

Fraxinus excelsior

Yasen

White Locust

Robinia pseudoacacia

Akatsiya

Birch

Betula pendula

Bereza

Alder

Alnus incanaand A. rubra

Vil'kha